First, sorry for not being responsive last week (and I might not be too much in the upcoming weeks).
However, I used GigPerformer a lot, mostly at home to ‘program’ and think of a good panel layout and created one, so I can a lot of things not able when I was using hardware synthesizers, like:
- Using a mod wheel as a pitch bend (not in the panel below),
- Using pads to trigger sound effects (as my Kronos did not have pads)
- Using my Korg NanoKontrol2 as a keyboard sound mixer including balance knobs.
- Using expression pedals as volume, BUT also overridable if I want it to use for other functions
- Changing leslie speed with my sustain pedal instead (actually one switch of my Behringer FCB1010 MIDI foot pedal).
- Having a great overview of controls to use
- Having a clear ‘note’ line to think about
- Having enough ‘real estate’ for chords and/or notes.
- Using a foot switch as a mod wheel, gradually increasing/decreasing its value.
- Being able to layer/split more than 16 sounds
- Probably forgot a lot to mention
Below is a panel I created in GigPerformer, and using it as template for other songs.
