![]() If you can find and even see them during the heat of performance, it’s not always possible to grab plug-in controls you need to move using just a mouse…or arguably worse, your laptop’s built-in trackpad. The argument to that suggestion is the next feature in Gig Performer. You can set a preference to open plug-in interfaces automatically when they’re installed, and the program does remember where you opened them, although my one suggestion is that the program should be able to remember plug-ins’ open/closed status, much like a screenset in a DAW. ![]() Intuitively, you double-click on a block to open it and get at its full interface-to access a plug-in’s controls, for example. They feel this is simpler, and that’s probably true. Gig Performer’s online manual (that’s its documentation, which is very clear but not as handy as a PDF) points out that this is not your father’s mixer-with-sends interface. You can cable these blocks to multiple destinations, and combined signals are summed automatically. Those include the instrument and MIDI plug-ins you have installed, as well as an assortment of built-in objects such as mixers, a MIDI monitor, a MIDI filter, audio and MIDI file players… and you simply cable one to the next to create your signal flow. In addition to default block objects representing the physical audio inputs and outputs in connected audio interfaces, lurking behind a right-click menu is a long list of things available to load. There you’ll see the kind of connect-the-object, flow-chart interface familiar to anyone who’s used Audio MIDI Setup, Logic’s Environment, Plogue Bidule, and many other programs. To fill the rack with things that make noise, you click on an icon to go behind it. ![]() Launch Gig Performer 3, and you’ll be presented with an empty rack called a Rackspace. That’s an essential feature for a program you’ll use for live performances. Impressively, it didn’t crash either computer during the entire test period. The same multi program loaded into Spectrasonics Omnisphere registered the same number of bars in Apple’s Activity Monitor in Gig Performer as in Apple Logic Pro X…which is to say that this is an efficient program. It’s hard to quantify exactly how efficient Gig Performer is, but it didn’t stress either computer. Those bundles include soft synths, virtual pedals and effects, and a whole lot of signal processors, most of them oriented to studio use as well as live performance.įor this review, I ran Gig Performer on two systems: a 12-core Mac Pro and an old i7 950 Windows 7 machine. Each musician can also go through discrete sets of plug-ins in a single instance, or they can share instrument and processing plug-ins.Īlthough Gig Performer doesn’t come with any instruments or processors-the idea being that everyone already has their own–it’s also available on as part of their software bundles. By having each instance address its own audio and MIDI inputs, each musician in an ensemble can have full real-time control over his/her performance set-up. In addition to the licenses for multiple computers, you can run multiple instances on a single machine. ![]() Gig Performer 3.8 comes with perpetual licenses for up to three machines. Just as a DAW functions as the heart of a recording studio, Gig Performer can be the center of a live setup for both individual musicians and FOH engineers. Although instrument and processing plug-ins run in either type of application, features you want for production are different from what you want for playing onstage. The answer should be obvious as soon as you launch Gig Performer. ![]() If you already have a DAW, do you also need a dedicated plug-in host for live performance? ![]()
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