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As a recently retired software developer, I’d just like to say I’m continually impressed with the quality of Gig Performer as a software product!
It is not easy to write quality software as complex as Gig Performer is, and in my 8 months experience with it, Gig Performer is as rock solid as software gets.
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For my keyboard playing musician friends: After using Apple’s MainStage for live performance for 15 years, I finally bailed. I’ve been a big fan, but within the past year it has become too unstable and I just can’t trust it. I had a lot of problem on the last NMB tour as well as recent We Came From Space shows.
If anyone cares, I’ve started using Gig Performer as its replacement. It is significantly more flexible than MainStage, and it definitely feels more stable.
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I was a MainStage user for 12 years, at the point of needing to spend about $4000 to replace my MacBook Pro since MainStage was so greedy.
I downloaded Gig Performer trial and it only took me a day to realize how powerful it is, and how little resources are needed as compared to MainStage.
Jumped out of the trial and bought Gig Performer. Great decision!
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A nice review of Scott A. Simpson:
Gig Performer (GP) was developed by gigging musicians and is very much oriented to the end user.
Gig Performer runs on both Mac and Windows machines, does not require a ton of processing power, and is extremely stable.
Splits and layers are very easy - no MIDI channels to worry about, split and layer as much as you want.
I did a lot of sequencing and MIDI work back in the late 80s and early 90s and then took a long break to raise a family. Got back into live playing and MIDI again about 6 years ago and had a pretty steep learning curve with all the new gear, VSTs, and new software. Gig Performer has been one of the easiest to get started with, but I’ve yet to become a power user because I just don’t need to do everything that it can do. It pretty much will do anything you want it to do.
The tech support and online community are fantastic too! You’ll find answers for everything in one of those two places.
Best of luck!
(source: Keyboard Players in Cover Bands FB group)
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One of the better decisions I’ve made for streamlining my keyboard rig, especially for flight dates! Gig Performer ROCKS!!!
Gig Performer is killer! Just diving in this month, but from what I’m seeing in the initial testing and programming, this will allow me to easily dial in all the complex sound layering I’ve needed while streamlining my multi-keyboard rig for gigs.
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This is my current live set up, and it’s easily the best I’ve ever owned, and probably the least expensive!
Nektar LX88+ and a Novation Impulse 61 controller keyboards, Steinberg UR24c Interface and a Windows Laptop i7 with 16GB RAM running Gig Performer. I have the Arturia V Collection, and a dozen other software libraries, all on a 2TB external SSD.
There really isn’t a sound I can’t get at least very close to. It’s simple to programme and change from song to song with a single button.
The only downside is that I wish I’d had this set up 40 years ago!
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Firing up Gig Performer for another show. ZERO crashes in hundreds of performances over the past several years!
I have an MSI GE75 Raider gaming laptop with 32GB RAM.
I use a powered USB hub so the laptop doesn’t need to supply power to the keyboards (Arturia) or my interface (Focusrite).
Airplane mode on WiFi, Windows 11 laptop connects to the internet only for updates and occasional instrument authorization.
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Absolutely loved using Gig Performer for our first theatre show of Seventh Wonder (Fleetwood Mac tribute) last night. I will be touring all over Australia throughout the year, so having a reliable rig that allows me to recreate the sounds authentically as well as cover other parts like acoustic guitars with one finger whilst multitasking is absolutely paramount. Stoked how easy and stable it is!
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Gig Performer is fantastic, amazing, you can do anything you can think of with it and the graphic interface is so quick and easy to learn and use. They seem to have thought of everything I’ve come up with or come up against in about the months of using it so far.
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In the interim, I did further investigation of the alternatives to Gig Performer and I am now convinced that it is the way to go!
I’m very impressed by the depth and breadth of its functionality, compatibility with other software, flexibility and the way it minimizes the demand on computer resources.
Also very impressed by the degree to which you are constantly updating the program based on user feedback.
But possibly the most important factor is the level of support provided both by your company directly and by your user community across using a variety of Web vehicles.
I won’t name names (though it will be clear which product I’m referring to), but the alternative platform I was most closely considering pales in comparison to this level of support, not even offering a user manual to guide one in the learning process.
New Gig Performer user: steveinjersey
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One of the best things about using Gig Performer vs. a DAW is the ability to create setlists and switch between songs and song parts.
I love my DAW (Ableton Live) but it’s 10x more difficult to set up and maintain a single song, and 50x more difficult to manage a setlist in a single file (aka “live set”).
If you are a keyboard player who needs a different configuration for every song, need those configurations to support all levels of complexity, nothing beats Gig Performer. Nothing even comes close. Not Mainstage. Not anything else. Gig Performer is the absolute best solution!
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I use Gig Performer as the host for all my virtual instrument plugins and samplers. I started out with MainStage like most people do, but Gig Performer came along the way and just completely blew it out of the water! The flexibility that it provided for my needs was a perfect match!
(From this YouTube video)
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I found an interesting story here ; I’ll quote just one part of the story – see below.
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Here’s one more piece of this overall arc which I feel is pertinent. I had purchased Gig Performer a few years back, but it was at the same time I was terribly busy. I didn’t really dive in.
In recent months however, I began opening it up, as a way to get back to playing piano, without opening the DAW. It just seemed more direct, and it is. Soon though, with 25 years worth of accumulated VI’s and VST’s available inside Gig Performer, I started rediscovering things I never dove into enough before.
Top of that list is the Arturia Collection and mainly, the Jup-8 and Eternity Delay. Before long I was patching with Gig Performer’s modular interface, routing things in all sorts of relatively complicated ways. Ways which would be nearly impossible in hardware, at least without buying even more of it.
Some of these setups, just like picking a fave piano and routing delay and reverb, but also filtering on the delay, and overdrive, and delay to the reverb, but also reverb to the delay, etc. I’m also able to readily assign midi CC’s to a desk-full of hardware controllers, playing fun little improv jams of reflective synth and piano stuff.
It’s incredibly fun and I feel truly connected in the moments I’m doing that stuff.
Then I look over my shoulder at all the hardware sitting there, and again think something to the effect of “What have I done?”. How much time and money have I wasted?
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I often have the same thoughts….and smile!
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Ken Lerch
MainStage to Gig Performer user here. I use an older MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM and have had no issues with Gig Performer, even running two instances - one for guitar amp modeling and one for keys. Gig Performer is so much more powerful and flexible, especially for our whole band, that the two really can’t even be compared. I have not looked back since switching from Mainstage!
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Kevin Brown
I was interested in MainStage a few years back so I went to a Facebook forum on MainStage. I watched for about a year. The narrative was always the same , “ something didn’t work live.” Or memory problems. Etc. I realized you need to know a lot about Macs and do much programming. But complaints galore.
I actually left the group stating interesting app but seems buggy etc. yea I was reflected fast had to leave fast after that comment. So later I read many forums and realized I almost never see anybody complain about Gig Performer. “ rock solid is the word I see over and over. So I’m sold. I went through the 14 day trial.
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