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Guitarists, keyboard players, vocalists, drummers, wind players — build and control your live music rig with Gig Performer® to transform and elevate your live performing experience by gaining complete control over the sound of your instrument or voice. Our innovative approach and focus on usability is paired with an intuitive rack design, called a Rackspace, which transforms your plugins into the most powerful, yet user-friendly live music software system. And our impressive list of cutting edge features allow you to control multiple instruments, layer sounds and employ authentic effects… easily, and with little power usage.

SONGS AND SETLISTS

Songs let you reuse your rackspaces. For example, a single rackspace containing an acoustic piano sound can be reused to cover 10 songs needing piano. Reusing rackspaces greatly reduces load times and memory needs. Guitarists will love that song parts can be accessed directly using a MIDI pedal controller, as well as from a control surface or Gig Performer's main window.

PREDICTIVE LOADING

Gig Performer's Predictive Loading™ feature, which slims resource demands by loading only the next few rackspaces that will be needed, can now be applied at the song level. All parts of a song are loaded into memory when the song is selected for glitchless, instant switching. At the same time, Predictive Loading limits CPU and memory requirements.

BI-DIRECTIONAL MIDI CONTROL AND SYSEX SUPPORT

Control surface support has been strengthened with the addition of bidirectional MIDI control of widgets on Gig Performer rack panels, and the program now allows programming and transmitting sysex (MIDI System Exclusive) messages, commonly used with hardware synthesizers.

LOW CPU USAGE

We've spent countless hours making sure that Gig Performer uses as few CPU cycles as possible.

CROSS PLATFORM (VST, VST3, AU)

Works on OS X and Windows devices. Your GIG files can be opened on both platforms. Supports VST, VST3 and AU plugins

BUILT-IN AUDIO/MIDI RECORDER

Record all incoming audio inputs easily for later post processing in a DAW. Saved wave files are automatically timestamped - perfect for touring bands. All incoming MIDI data can be saved to a Standard MIDI File, complete with tempo changes.

Read more about the recorder INSTANT SWITCHING

Switch between your rack spaces - INSTANTLY and GLITCH FREE. Easily create variations of your rackspace. Switch between variations seamlessly - even while holding notes.

MIDI & OSC Support

Use your existing MIDI and OSC devices and apps. Map any control to any controllable parameter.

RIG MANAGER

Our Rig Manager allows you to move between your home and studio setup with a single click

Read more about Rig Manager ABLETON LINK

Synchronize Gig Performer's tempo with applications running on other connected computers or tablets.

CHORD PRO SUPPORT

Gig Performer 3 adds support for the Chord Pro lead sheet format. This allows Chord Pro documents to be created, edited, and linked to songs in a setlist so a chords-and-lyrics chart can be opened when a song is selected

VISUAL WORKFLOW

Forget about channel strips, busses, auxes and sends. Just route audio from one plugin to another by connecting them together with wires. Functionality like inserts, sends and side-chaining become trivial.

GPSCRIPT LANGUAGE

A powerful, proprietary scripting language allows you to customize your rig's behaviour to the max.

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Associate specific MIDI devices with particular plugins easily and visually. Use transpose, channel mapping, MIDI out settings and more..

AUDIO MIXER/ROUTER

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Gig Performer® runs on both OSX and MS Windows so you can enjoy its benefits on whichever platform you are most familiar. You'll also enjoy full OSC support. You can use touch surfaces such as Lemur or TouchOSC to control Gig Performer®, as well as applications such as Max for even more sophisticated control.

Gig Performer® supports VST and VST3 formats on both OSX and MS Windows, as well as the AU (Audio Unit) format on OSX.

No more confusing busses, sends, auxes or inserts used by traditional channel-strip approaches. Using the front and back panel views, simply connect plugins to each other any way you want, then custom-design Panels to control each Rackspace. You can then design a number of Variations, which allow multiple sets of settings for a single Rackspace… and switch INSTANTLY between them.

For instance, if you create a Rackspace consisting of an electric piano and some effects (phase, reverb, tremolo) then you can switch instantly from fast deep tremolo, to slow mellow tremolo plus reverb, and so on, even while still holding notes. Plus, you can customize your Panels using a variety of available widgets (knobs, switches, levers, LEDs), and colored face plates.

Gig Performer® makes the most of your plugins whether you're using it to control the effects processing of your instrument, your voice, or both simultaneously. You can also use Gig Performer® with your existing environment, by training it to recognize the controls on your keyboards, OSC apps, MIDI expression pedals and control surfaces, and then use them to control plugin parameters. Of course, you'll also enjoy expected features such as layering and splitting operations, and individual transposition.

Gig Performer 3 adds some exciting new features. See a list of major new features available in GP3

Design Your Sounds Like A Pro

Say goodbye to the confusing busses, sends and inserts of traditional channel-strip approaches. Simply connect plugins to each other any way you want.

Multiple Panels Per Rack

Panels make it easy to group and share common collections of controls tied to your physical devices and to plugin parameters in individual rackspaces.

• GP has absolutely changed how I run my guitar rig and has finally allowed me to run it how I want to rather than how the software wants to.

• After more than 20 years of using a PC to run my keyboards on stage, I finally don't live in fear of the next patch or song change.

• Yay finally someone with brains developed the vst host from heavenI purchased Gig Performer and OMG. This is by far the best live VST host for live work. Thumbs up big time. Look forward to gigging with this beasty vst host from heaven. Yay.

• It's actually CHANGED my studio by giving me the ability to have 'physical' control of virtual instruments on the fly without the need for the GEAR.

• I love it when I get a new instrument or tool to use it gives me a fresh outlook and Gig Performer has done exactly that. I now find I am creating more complex sounds for my stage performances and being confident that they will work. Gig Performer was created for musicians who want reliability and a familiar way to create and recreate their sounds on stage it is not just another way to use your plugins for me it has become another instrument. Thank you Gig Performer you are a Great Performer.

• Thank you guys for creating a 'Musician's Tool' instead of another Engineering Tool

• Very impressed with Gig Performer. It is so intuitive that probably it doesn't need a manual

• Gig Performer has liberated my best audio plug-ins from the confines of the studio and finally made it practical to bring multiple instances of them to the performance stage. Simultaneous MIDI processing makes a versatile system. I now have one very compact live setup!

• Gig Performer is like a breath of fresh air for laptop performers. Stable, efficient and without all the extra unnecessary features that increase cpu and distract from a smooth playing experience. It's a lean, mean performing machine and will find a home with many players looking to augment, or completely replace their hardware rigs.P.S. I just made a gig with 50 instances of Uhe Diva in it. Resting cpu = 2%. wow!

• Finally, a plugin host that truly addresses the needs of live performers

• Gig Performer is a game changer for me. Not only can I create any combination of sounds with this but also perform them live with seamless switching.The only limitation with Gig Performer is your imagination.

• Gig Performer is an amazing tool for my unconventional set up. Allowing me to access the full power of my laptops into my system. It is quickly becoming an incredible asset to my live shows.

• I was also impressed that it handled midi fx, I wasn't expecting that 🙂

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I love Mainstage, but like all software, there's the chance that it could crash live. I love hardware, but it lacks a lot of the functionality and power that software synths offer. Starting last year, I made a decision that if I could help it, I would never rely completely on just hardware or software exclusively, and I started developing a hybrid rig that had redundancy, reliability, and a ton of sonic power. Here's how I did it:

1. I bought a great hardware synth. I started with buying a Nord Stage, my personal favorite hardware keyboard on the market. It does a great job of covering everything electro mechanical (pianos, organs, electric pianos, etc), and it's nearly one-knob-per function, making it super easy to program (I have a strong dislike for many of the workstation keyboards on the market because of the clunky user interfaces that many have).

2. I bought a flexible and powerful audio interface. My choice was MOTU's Microbook II. The main reason I got this interface is it has bullet-proof audio drivers, a separate Cue Mix mixing software that can route any signal to any combination of outputs, and it's tiny. I then routed my Nord's output into the Microbook, and then I usually route the monitor from the stage mix into the XLR input of the Microbook.

I then set up a mix where I could balance the levels of Nord and Mainstage together, along with the monitor input from the monitor engineer. I then was able to send a separate mono-summed mix through the output of just the Nord and Mainstage to the FOH. So far, it works like a charm, and it's been super stable for me.

Even if Mainstage crashes, the audio interface continues to function separately through the Cue Mix software, and I'm able to use my Nord Stage while I trouble shoot (this situation hasn't come up yet- I've yet to have Mainstage crash since I bought the Microbook).

3. Midi in from the Nord. Rather than have my Novation Remote MkII 61 keyboard be the only way to control Mainstage, I often choose to layer synth sounds by wiring the midi output to the midi in on my Novation, keeping cables to a minimum. In the past before I had the Novation keyboard, I've used a cheap midi-to-USB adapter to accomplish the same thing.

Drawbacks

There are a couple of obvious drawbacks: this rig uses a few more wires than using Mainstage alone with two bus-powered midi controllers (there's two more wires, to be exact). This may not be a big deal to some, but if you're in a tremendous hurry this can count.

The second drawback is price: the Nord costs about $4,500, compared to my old 88 note keyboard that I bought for the whopping total of $270. That's a huge difference, but if you're in a situation where you can't afford to lose audio for even a few seconds, it pays to buy quality. And quality ain't cheap.

Overall

I'm convinced this is the route that most serious keyboardists need to take in the 21st century- a mixture of powerful software, combined with dedicated hardware in case something goes wrong. I've been duty testing my hybrid setup for the past year, and I've been extremely pleased with the result. It's easy to program, easy to set up, and gives a level of reliability I could never had with Mainstage alone.

What does your Mainstage rig look like? Write me, and I might feature your rig in a future Mainstage Monday!