First off, I just want to say that Gig Performer is absolutely amazing, and so is this community.
I’ve been working with Gig Performer for a while now and have built up a solid collection of Rackspaces. I’m now ready to start working with Setlists, but I’ve run into an issue. My Rackspaces will not load into a Setlist.
From what I’m seeing, the Rackspace file type is .rackspace, while Setlists use .gpsong files. I’m not sure if Rackspaces need to be converted, imported in a specific way, or created/saved differently in order to work within Setlists.
I’ve watched the foundation videos and reviewed the available online materials, but I haven’t been able to find the specific information that addresses this issue.
Thank you in advance to the community members for any guidance or insight you can provide. Your help is greatly appreciated!
Set lists are a collection of “songs”. Songs use rackspaces. Songs can have multiple parts each part can use a different rackspace. In this example there is a song called “Song Bird”, it has three parts (Intro, Verse, Chorus). Part one is using Rackspace_1 that contains all the plugins needed for that song part.
You should see rackspace-variations as ‘patches’ or ‘preset’ which you assign to songparts. This way a particular rackspace-variation can be used by several songs. From a guitarist’s point of view: let’s say you have 3 rackspaces: ‘Clean’, ‘Distorted’ and ‘Lead’. Then you can assign the ‘Clean’ one to song-parts of ‘Dust in the wind’ and ‘Strawberry fields forever’ and ‘Distorted’ to song-parts of ‘We are the champions’ and ‘Thunder’. Furthermore you could assign ‘Lead’ to the intro song-part of ‘Thunder’.
Please note that after all you assign as variation to a song-part.
I hope the examples are not confusing and I managed to give you some insight of how it works.
I load up the full song, which will load up all linked rackspaces/rackspace variations. I initially do it in its own Gig file so I do not mess anything with my main big Gig file.
In some cases you could just use it “as is”. I “think” everything is OMNI and available on both keyboards.
But, for example, with Enjoy the Silence (NARF did an amazing job!), I had to tweak things a bit for my purposes.
I would only perform the song with a guitarist, so did not use the NARF song parts with their sampled guitar. The same with the optional intro section. I also did not want to waste ram, so I deleted unused plugins entirely.
In my case, I have two keyboards and I prefer not to change the keyboard notes of anything to a different key if I can avoid it. So, I changed MIDI In blocks so I could utilize both of my keyboards. Also, I prefer to play a part when I can, rather than use the arp option.
Also, you have to make sure you load all the samples into the V Collection’s Emu Emulator II and you need to make sure to install some (free) plugins (I think BlueArp, a Valhalla plugin and another free plugin effects suite).
When everything is done and I am happy with the song, I export it and import the song file into my main Gig File. So, now I am ready to play Enjoy the Silence. (I’ll keep working on my bands to learn it too!).
Thank you so much for the support — it’s truly appreciated.
If you happen to have any additional links or resources that explain the Setlists in more detail, I would be very grateful. I also came across a Facebook post titled “Gig Performer Tip #46,” which has been extremely helpful.
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and for being such a supportive community.…
