RELEASE NOTES – GIG PERFORMER ESSENTIALS

v5.x

HOW TO GET THE LATEST VERSION OF GIG PERFORMER ESSENTIALS

If you are already a Gig Performer Essentials customer,  the latest available version can always be downloaded directly from our website.  Simply click here and then select your version (Mac or Windows).

13th May, 2026

UPDATES

  • Gig Performer Essentials now supports phase invert in audio mixers, giving Essentials users a direct way to address phase cancellation when layering sources.
  • Gig Performer Essentials now has access to additional audio mixer channel configurations beyond the previous 4 and 8 channel options.
  • Song part actions can now switch to a different song or song part, giving you more control over the flow of your setlist.
  • If Gig Performer receives a message telling it to switch to the song part that is already active, that song part’s actions will no longer retrigger.
  • Hold Ctrl while navigating to a song part to bypass its attached actions. This is useful when you want to check a sound or adjust a level without triggering actions on that part. Actions from other sources are not affected.
  • Hold Shift to stop all pending actions, very useful if you accidentally create action in a songpart that causes the part to switch to another part (for example) thereby preventing you from selecting and editing that songpart.
  • Hold Shift while double-clicking on a Song Part to open the Action management window as well as the Song Part properties.
  • Touch support has been further refined.
  • Copy your current setlist to the clipboard in CSV format for archiving, sharing, or working with it in external tools.
  • Hide the display of Program Change and Bank numbers in songs and rackspaces when that information is not essential to your performance.
  • If you use the [variation] tag in a widget caption, it now updates automatically when you switch variations, keeping your panel display in sync.

FIXES

  • VST3 plugin widgets that were not updating correctly will now respond as expected.
  • FabFilter plugins no longer cause a crash in Gig Performer.
  • Locating an audio file originally defined in a Windows gig file now works correctly on Mac.

15th July, 2025 - Version 5.1.3 — Initial Release

This release marks the introduction of Gig Performer Essentials, a streamlined edition derived from the full Gig Performer platform. Version 5.1.3 establishes the initial version of this new product variant. As this is the first release, there are no legacy changes, new features, or bug fixes to report.