Gig Performer is easy to use - Short Stories

Stories from the Trenches
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Mike Rosenstark:

The thing that strikes me the most about Gig Performer is that it is very rare that any piece
of software is at the pinnacle in either power, flexibility or ease of use. Those three things are normally mutually exclusive. You get the really good notation program, it’s super powerful but it’s crazy complicated - the learning curve is parabolic… So, you’re used to power = complexity = difficulty.

You’re not gonna get ease of use and power in the same box and then along comes Gig Performer is like:

Hold my beer! It’s like Babe Ruth!

It’s so powerful which I attribute to a real meticulous nature of the programmers.

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Karl Sanders:

I’m not a Gig Performer power user, but it doesn’t matter, because this program is so user friendly that I didn’t have to crack open the manual, watch any videos, or do anything.

I was able to get going just 'cuz there’s a lot of intuitive stuff. The way it’s laid out, the way it’s put together. Click here, stick VST there, make a connection.

It’s simple!

In fact, there there’s a whole bunch of stuff about a Gig Performer I didn’t even realize until I watched a few of your Backstage episodes and I was like: Wow, it it does that! It does that, too!? And it does this other thing???

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Igor Paspalj:

First thing that’s basically best for me, I was blown away how easily can I set it up, for example, to use one plugin for one sound and then we know with a click switch to another plug-in without any audio gap, without any crackles, pops and stuff like that to other plugin.

I’m using a lot of different guitar plugins, I like the clean from this one, but I like the dry from this one, I like the delay from the third one and stuff like that. So, that was first thing that I was immediately blown away, amazing.

I can just set up like a five plugins, and switch them on and off from one to another so easy, so simple and without some crazy hungry CPU usage or be afraid that my system is going to crash down.

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Francis Capistrano (narf sounds):

I make cover sound packs for various keyboards. As of last year, I started working on Gig Performer and I’ve made three packs so far.

Great thing about Gig Performer is it’s only taken me about 30 days per sound pack that I create when normally takes about 3 months for a regular hardware synth.

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Rubén Valtierra:

I am now Gig Performer and I’m loving it. If you look at what my gig is, it’s like a rock Broadway musical on steroids!

So, as you can see, a lot of people in in the pits in New York on Broadway, they were using Kurzweils, because it could do everything. Well, this is what’s going on here. I’m able to do anything that I can think of with Gig Performer. And it’s so easy!

Because, pre-production… The playing’s nothing, but the pre-production for a Weird Al gig, I had to sit from for a couple of months trying to come up with the right right sounds off of one keyboard try to make it sound like a DX, try to make it sound like a a Jupiter 8, trying to and then of course like stacked because a lot of those keyboards would be stacked but in the 80s… And I had to figure out what was going on, and it was it was kind of hard, and it took me a long time…

But with Gig Performer, I can do this in minutes. It’s just like my life has changed!

So I am the number one cheerleader for Gig Performer!

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Gig Performer demonstration: ease of use

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A little bit of demonstration!

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Why multi-timbral instruments are easier to use in Gig Performer

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How Gig Performer shows your signal flow clearly

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How multi-output devices are easier to use in Gig Performer

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How flexible audio paths and parallel signal processing are easier to do in Gig Performer

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How to easily control one sound with different instruments in Gig Performer

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Eric Netherland:

One day at NAMM, we ran across Gig Performer and we thought we’d give it a try. My test is, can I in 5 or 10 minutes get up and running and I was able to do that!

It was just very intuitive.

And then, since I started using it, I found that it was also very powerful! I ended up using the MIDI monitor and lot of the features for translating things in MIDI while I was developing this instrument.

I’ve used many different MIDI Monitors to tell me what the data is and which is very important
to me writing the code. And um the MIDI Monitor is really well done. It actually told me what was wrong in a way that made sense to me and helped me fix bugs.

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Cameron Winters:

There are many reasons that Gig Performer is faster, easier, and more efficient than other solutions. I just want to share one of my favorites with you today – and that’s the Setlist feature.

So, at the bottom of the screen here, you’ll see my MIDI pedalboard. It allows me to control all my individual guitar effects inside my Gig Performer guitar rig. Now, my band Vesser has a song coming out soon called Axiom. And in this song, it starts with a clean guitar. There’s lots of reverb and several effects. We got an Octaver, there’s a Flanger. There’s Delay.

There’s a lot going on. And I need to switch between that sound and a dry, heavy, distorted guitar sound with no reverb and a phaser. I need to do that instantaneously.

Usually, that would mean a lot of pedal board dancing, messing around. But with Gig Performer, it’s just one single click.

So, just like that, I’m able to switch between those two drastically different sounds with just one button press with no pops or clicks.

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Bruce Moore:

When when I started using a guitar synth, it was a Roland GR-33 and I’m doing a little dance all the way through the song, hitting all those pedals to as I’m changing patches and having to remember, what bank and what number it was.

I don’t have to do that with Gig Performing because of the Setlist thing – that just revolutionized it for me!

I was still choosing patches when I was using the Fishman TriplePlay software. I still had to know what patch it was going to be because they only hold 10.

And then you had to load another 10. Well, you can’t do that during a set… You got to do that on a break. So, you have to kind of narrow it down…

A with Gig Performer, it’s a different either rackspace or it’s a different song part, all the way through the whole night and I just advance, advance, advance.

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