GIG PERFORMER BLOG
Recording your Gig Performer performance with a DAW
Gig Performer is designed to be a very flexible audio plugin host to allow you not only to create your sounds but also to perform, in real time, on stage or in a studio. We’re not talking about playing 8 bars with one sound, stopping to switch sounds, and playing...
Gig Performer is not a plugin chainer
Gig Performer is not a plugin chainer. Gig Performer is an audio plugin host for live performance and session musicians, the part of your instrument. It looks like this or it looks like that... . ….therefore it is the same as this or the same as that! My bicycle has...
Gig Performer Way vs. The Channel Strip Way
Gig Performer's visual "connect anything to anything else" approach has been praised by our users. They find it simple and easy to modify and follow what's going on. This is especially important for live situations and particularly for musicians who want to focus on...
Gig Performer and Mac Catalina (OS X 10.15)
Gig Performer is notarized by Apple and can be opened in Catalina. As of version 3.6, Gig Performer itself runs perfectly fine in Catalina. You will most likely be prompted to allow access to the Microphone and you must allow this. The prompt is a little bit...
Best Practices for deploying VST plugins on Windows
Guest post by Gig Performer user Jim Erwin— Keyboard player with The Suburbans . Best Practices (okay... my practices) for deploying VST Plugins on Windows .I've seen multiple approaches to installing VST plugins on Windows. After a number of years of building new...
Using SampleRobot to import sounds from proprietary plugins to a sampler for use with Gig Performer
Many DAWs come with a collection of (often very good) proprietary plugins for synthesis and sampling. However, proprietary audio plugins have one major disadvantage. They lock you into the DAW in which they live. If you ever need to share your tracks with others, or...
My plugin has so many output ports – which ones do I use?
Input and output ports in Gig Performer blocks . If you’re already a Gig Performer user, you know that you can easily route audio and MIDI between AU (Mac only), VST3 and VST plugins by just connecting them visually. However, you may have wondered why some plugin...
Play with Gig Performer Piano VST: host software in live use
Note: This is an English translation of a German article written by Lukas Ruschitzka that first appeared on July 23rd, 2019 in Pianoo.de. Play with Gig Performer Piano VST: host software in live use . Gig Performer is a cross-platform software VST host application for...
How to use the same set of PC messages to select parts in any song
For users coming to Gig Performer from other audio plugin hosts, there is some confusion as to how to configure Gig Performer so you can use the same set of Program Change (PC) or Control Change (CC) messages for different parts of a song, no matter what song you’re...
Gig Performer is NOT a DAW!
Gig Performer is NOT a DAW! Gig Performer is an audio plugin host for live performance and session musicians, part of your instrument. . Think of the main view of your DAW containing everything you need for a session as analogous to just one rackspace in Gig...
The hidden power of the MIDI In Block
Gig Performer’s MIDI In block is not just your everyday block for receiving MIDI events. It can do much more than just receive MIDI messages from an external MIDI device and feed them to connected soft-synth plugins. It has important other functionality that often...
Updated Remote Control Lemur Template for Gig Performer 3
Note: the main article that also includes the updated remote control Lemur template for Gig Performer 3 can be found here.------------------------- Among the many new features in Gig Performer 3 is the notion of songs and song parts. To complement this new...