Demoing, questions, manual not helpful!

[jeffn1]

Hello, Scardo,

Welcome to the Gig Performer forum. A great helpful group of people are here.

Personally, I am not so great at learning by reading manuals. So, I watched a lot of youtube videos walking through various aspects of Gig Performer. That is especially useful if you can pause the video and try to do what they are doing. (Be aware of the date of the video as GP has continued to evolve/improve over time).

Typically you would add a mixer to your “Local Rackspace” (often just referred to as a “rackspace”). There are various options regarding number of channels (and you get use more than one, if necessary). The mixer would be inserted into a “Rackspace”. Then you can add widgets and map them to the mixer.

Personally, I love this widget to connect to the mixer in the rackspace. I pretty much use it on every new rackspace:

6 Channel Template

Hi all, After much experimenting, here is my “go-to” rackspace for AWAKEN - A Tribute to the Music of Yes. As many of you know, Yes music requires an extensive palette of sounds for each song. So I begin each tune with a front panel with 6 channels tied to a 16 channel Audio Mixer in the rear. The upper Left button is tied to the Solo of each channel in the mixer. The upper Right button is open, and I typically map it to the “Bypass” of whatever plugin the channel is linked to. The Gain kno…

Good luck. I feel pretty comfortable, you cannot go wrong with Gig Performer. It is very intuitive, but it is about as “deep” as you care to make it (much deeper than I my use case).

Jeff