I have just recently blown away my Mac’s drive and reinstalled OS and all apps from scratch. I’m still setting up some of my plug-ins, but have most of them installed. The problem is that when I load Gig Performer, it is incredibly slow to load. Here is a video showing the load:
It takes 2 minutes and 9 seconds approx to load. There are a number of plug-ins that are disabled and I’m fine with those that are. But, I can’t figure out why it takes so long on subsequent loading of the app. It used to load in about 15 seconds (assuming no new plug-ins to scan).
I’ve run into this with other programs from time to time. My experience is that these are usually DNS/connectivity issues.
Some of your plugins might be trying to call home and if there’s a DNS problem, there will be about 9-second delay while DNS query times out.
Try using a different DNS server and/or try loading with your internet disconnected (i.e, unplug ethernet cable or turn off wifi)
Thank you again, but that made no change either. I haven’t even loaded a Gig yet because I just installed it. But, holding the shift key yielded the same result.
Is there any logging feature that I can access with time stamps? I thought perhaps it is getting hung up on a particular file or something.
Uh oh, you’re on High Sierra? All bets are off — everybody is bitching about problems with High Sierra and music applications and plugins. Is that what you were running before? Apparently there are a lot of issues with High Sierra. Now I’m wondering if your audio interface drivers are causing a problem.
I get that a lot of people have had trouble. But, I’ve been running High Sierra for months with no problems, including with Gig Performer 2. Audio Interface is a Universal Audio Apollo 8 and Twin, but they aren’t even connected at the time that I try to do this. I’m just trying to use my internal speakers for now while I get everything set up again.
I figured it out. Many thanks to David for all his help!
I cleared all of the Gig Performer caches and deleted all settings. I re-opened GP, waited for it to run through the plug-in scans, then when I reload it, it loads in only 9 seconds!
Also, David suggested a permissions problem. I made sure to add the local user specifically to have read/write permissions on the Gig Performer app.
Glad that worked. For others, in the Mac world the cache is located at ~/Library/Caches/GigPerformer and the Gig Performer application settings are at at ~/Library/Application Support/GigPerformer
Hi.
Can you forward me the fix in Davids private post.
I am having the same issue and won’t be able to se this live until it is sorted out.
Any help would be appreciated.
Not that Im a newbie with this stuff, but after running a Muse Receptor VIP TRIO for years, fear of Lord Chaos and the cold sweats set in anytime I think about changing anything…
Mac Mini I7 2,6 Quad Core 16gb Ram 1TB SSD
