by David Jameson | Jun 18, 2017 | Knowledge Base Articles, MS Windows, OS X
If you’re trying to control a plugin parameter directly from your physical hardware, you may be tempted to use the audio plugin’s MIDI mechanism, possibly because that’s all that was available to you before you started using Gig Performer. However if...
by David Jameson | Jun 13, 2017 | Knowledge Base Articles, MS Windows, OS X, Tips
As of version 1.6, Gig Performer can sync to an external MIDI clock, adjusting tempo automatically based on the rate at which MIDI clock events are received. Note: there is a new blog article that covers Gig Performer 4 and tempo synchronization. Check out this link...
by David Jameson | Jun 3, 2017 | Knowledge Base Articles, OS X, Troubleshooting
In a crash report recently received, we noted that the message was as follows: Application Specific Information: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInternalInconsistencyException’, reason: ‘Couldn’t posix_spawn: error 35’ We...
by David Jameson | May 11, 2017 | Gig Performer Blog, MS Windows, OS X
MacOS has a nice built-in feature called IAC (Inter-app Communication) that allows you to connect MIDI applications together and communicate with each other. (There’s nothing built into Windows but there are third-party applications like virtualMIDI that do the...
by David Jameson | Mar 21, 2017 | Knowledge Base Articles, MS Windows, OS X
If you wish to move an existing Gig Performer installation to another computer, apart from your gig files, or if you need to perform a Windows Restore to revert to a previous Windows state, or if you are upgrading your operating system, you will need to make sure that...
by David Jameson | Nov 29, 2016 | Knowledge Base Articles, MS Windows, OS X, Troubleshooting
Turns out it’s not! What has happened is that the Crystal synth plugin defines about 768 parameters but only a few of them are actually used. The rest are simply unnamed, so have empty strings. Since Gig Performer only has a small area where plugin parameters...