by David Jameson | Jul 25, 2018 | Gig Performer Blog, MS Windows, OS X, Tips
You may be wondering how to implement side-chaining in your audio plugin host. Quick answer: if you’re using Gig Performer, it’s pretty trivial. I never used side chaining myself. In fact I wasn’t even sure what it was for a long time. But I got forced into finding...
by David Jameson | Jul 22, 2018 | Gig Performer Blog, MS Windows, OS X
We recently got a question from a user who wanted to be able to switch rackspaces and variations using a Novation Launchpad. However, that product only produces MIDI Note Events but Gig Performer expects Program Change MIDI events so what do you do? Important note:...
by David Jameson | Apr 23, 2018 | Knowledge Base Articles, OS X
(Updated: May 20th, 2018) Synapse has released a new version of The Legend that fixes this issue. Please make sure you are running at least version 1.22 of The Legend. A customer recently reported that Gig Performer was hanging on his Mac when certain rackspaces were...
by David Jameson | Nov 9, 2017 | Knowledge Base Articles, OS X
If you have been prompted that a Gig Performer update/upgrade is available but the update fails to install, perhaps with a message such as, “Something went wrong”, then there is most likely a permissions problem on your computer which is preventing the program from...
by David Jameson | Oct 31, 2017 | Gig Performer Blog, Knowledge Base Articles, MS Windows, OS X
Although we’re really busy working on Gig Performer 2.x (more on that later), we put out a minor update to Gig Performer 1.x today where it’s now possible to distinguish between NoteOn and NoteOff events in our MIDI Filter plugin: Why is this interesting?...
by David Jameson | Jul 2, 2017 | Knowledge Base Articles, OS X, Troubleshooting
A customer, understandably panicked, contacted us to report that after installing the latest update, when he ran Gig Performer he just got an empty rackspace. Also, Gig Performer started a complete scan of his VST and AudioUnit plugins as if they had never been seen...