by David Jameson | Dec 8, 2019 | Knowledge Base Articles
You need an internet connection to activate (but not to actually use) your Gig Performer trial and then again to activate a full license. Once you have activated Gig Performer on your computer, you can run it without an internet connection. Further, as long as you do...
by David Jameson | Sep 11, 2019 | Gig Performer Blog, Knowledge Base Articles, OS X, Troubleshooting
Gig Performer is notarized by Apple and can be opened in Catalina. As of version 3.6, Gig Performer itself runs perfectly fine in Catalina. You will most likely be prompted to allow access to the Microphone and you must allow this. The prompt is a little bit...
by David Jameson | Sep 3, 2019 | Gig Performer Blog, MS Windows
Guest post by Gig Performer user Jim Erwin— Keyboard player with The Suburbans . Best Practices (okay… my practices) for deploying VST Plugins on Windows .I’ve seen multiple approaches to installing VST plugins on Windows. After a number of years of...
by David Jameson | Aug 18, 2019 | Knowledge Base Articles, OS X
Gig Performer is an audio plugin host that supports AudioUnit (AU) plugins, VST3 and VST plugins. AU plugins are Mac-only: Generally, if you install or update an Audio Unit plugin, you have to log out or possibly even reboot your computer before the updated AU becomes...
by David Jameson | Aug 17, 2019 | Gig Performer Blog
Many DAWs come with a collection of (often very good) proprietary plugins for synthesis and sampling. However, proprietary audio plugins have one major disadvantage. They lock you into the DAW in which they live. If you ever need to share your tracks with others, or...
