[blog] How to use multiple instances in Gig Performer

General discussion about Gig Performer
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After creating a second instance with the same audio interface (motu m4), I see no midi activity on the second instance. What am I missing?

Win 11
Intel i7 2.60GHz
64GB ram

Manny

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Is your MIDI devices’ driver multi-client?

See here: Sending MIDI from one device to multiple programs

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My MIDI KB is single client, so in order to use multiple instances, I’m using the MIDI Router Program. Is it possible to open MIDI Router in addition to my multiple instances all triggered by the same BAT file? If so, what would I add to the BAT code?

thanks

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How to start a Gig Performer instance from the Terminal:

open -n /Applications/GigPerformer4.app --args -in=INSTANCE-NAME

Note: replace “INSTANCE-NAME” with the name of your instance.

This has been especially helpful for me to more quickly launch multiple instances from a script; thanks for sharing this!

I have a few different use cases where I’m reusing multiple instances with different projects / bands. Is there a way to also specify a gig file to load when opening the instance?

My goal here is to have a script like the block beneath, where I can quickly load certain instances with specific gig files depending on the band / project I’m working on. I have tried the following so far, with a few different approaches to pass a gigfile in as a parameter, but could not find docs on how to specify one.

open -n /Applications/GigPerformer5.app /Users/music/Documents/Gig\ Performer/Gigs/In-Ear-Mix.gig
open -n /Applications/GigPerformer5.app -in="Guitar" /Users/music/Documents/Gig\ Performer/Gigs/Guitar.gig
open -n /Applications/GigPerformer5.app -in="Keys-Upper" /Users/music/Documents/Gig\ Performer/Gigs/KeysUpper.gig
open -n /Applications/GigPerformer5.app -in="Keys-Lower" /Users/music/Documents/Gig\ Performer/Gigs/KeysLower.gig

Apologies if I missed this being asked/answered somewhere else in the forum. If this is not currently possible, can I submit this as a feature request for a future version of GP?