and then watching Mainstage closer we usually ended up finding out why. The air of nothing, this app at a very affordable side, and at the same time, it is very complete, so we sometimes come across wacky situations with MIDI messages that pass through nowhere. must read the manual online to understand the intricacies of MIDI routing. Let's say it's a blessing in disguise when you have a low memory and you want to use the config. with plugins that do not pass, forcing to find alternative sometimes fairly average face an increased need for reliability for uses "live". even if there is an existing 32/64 bit really difficult transition. From saving only parts of a rackspace making endless amounts of variations without having to ‘re-load’ a bunch of samples, Gig Performer 3 feels incredibly optimized.Install again. Insane.įinally, between what they refer to as ‘partial saving’ and ‘variations’ you really have the ability to try out so many different versions of patches before you commit. This means if you open it up on your mobile device to do a little programming, you don’t have to worry that you’re going to destroy your complex routing setup by switching from an 8-channel audio interface to a 2-channel one. Ditto this concept for MIDI and audio devices. It does everything except for the actual processing. If you open a GP3 file on a different computer with a different plugin set, GP3 creates a virtual ‘chameleon’ plugin that will allow all of your routing to stay intact. The cross-platform and cross-device usage feature is far beyond almost anything I’ve seen. You also feel way more confident that the entire thing isn’t going to crash on you when make a major change because it’s really only loading what it ‘needs to’. GP3 loads up pieces of your saved ‘show’ and queues up what it needs next based on your setlist which further drives the point home of ‘this won’t take a year and a day to start up’. Predictive loading has to be what makes it feel so incredibly light on the CPU, and it really comes through. I’d say it feels designed to allow the power of a completely programmable and hackable audio host in a package that is easy enough to understand without a Master’s Degree in Music Technology. Gig Performer 3 most definitely falls somewhere between the ‘solidness’ and flexibility of Max/MSP and the user-friendliness of MainStage. It’s actually quite a refreshing approach! You can really get a ‘top down’ look at every MIDI device, every plugin, where it’s going, and what it’s reacting to. Making connections is fast and easy to understand, especially with the handy routing screen. You can easily drop in objects that could be a virtual instrument, an effect, a MIDI device, or an audio interface. Aside from the typical ‘virtual rack’ display that you can customize completely, there is a really excellent ‘device routing’ type screen that is very reminiscent of max/msp. GP3 takes an interesting approach to programming, presentation, and performance. If there was any bloat in the code, they have hacked it away with a virtual machete. Even on older machines, Gig Performer 3 is slick, polished, and just ‘feels’ incredibly rock solid. This is notable because one of the things you notice about GP3 instantly is how snappy, responsive, and efficient it is. The download was under 40 megabytes, and it installed in seconds. Gig Performer 3 feels *absurdly* lightweight. Gig Performer has been around for a bit now, but with version 3 things just got a whole lot more exciting. The comparisons to Apple’s MainStage will invariably come, as MainStage is one of the most common ways to host virtual instruments and effects. Host software allows you to open up the plugins, route MIDI input to them, and mix them before sending the audio out to the world. If you have some amazing virtual instruments on your computer that you’re just itching to use live, a live host is what you need. Gig Performer 3 is a Live Host for audio, virtual instrument plugins, and effects. Gig Performer is barreling down the audio highway to become the live host of choice and I couldn’t be more excited to be live virtual instrument user! What’s Inside With version 3, the gloves have been taken off and the gauntlets thrown down. I’ve been aware of Gig Performer for a bit now, as it’s been somewhat the ‘only game in town’ in terms of a live host on the PC side of things. One of the products that surprised me the most at NAMM this year was Gig Performer 3.
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