I downloaded gig performer to use with izotope plugins for quick mixing vocals for a small church environment. I am a drummer, not an audio guy, I’m learning, but I don’t know the ins and outs of mixing yet. The system is ran through a Presonus Studiolive series iii mixer into an m1 Mac mini. I am using usb outs to send the analog inputs to gig performer then sending them back to usb inputs on the mixer to the mains. I have tried a random reverb plugin in between channel 16 in and 17 out and it worked fine. However when I try izotope nectar or neutron, I click the “click to start listening” but the plugin doesn’t seem to hear the audio and never does its job. Not sure what the problem might be. Any help would be appreciated
If you’re on a Mac you have to give GP permission to access the “microphone”
I checked, it has permission. It works with Zak sounds atmosphere reverb plugin just fine, but not with izotope.
What happens when you press the global play button in gig performer?
I don’t have it in front of me at the moment, it’s on the church system. Is the global play button the same as the button for the global rackspace? I haven’t tried adding the plugin in the global rackspace wiring section. I was talking with chat GPT and it told me that using global rackspace wouldn’t change anything in my circumstances and I was running out of time to work with it last night so I never tried it.
The global play button is located on the top of the main gig performer window.
Disclaimer: I’m not a regular Nectar user but have toyed around with it in the past. I haven’t tried Nectar 4, which is the current version.
In Izotope’s own words, Nectar is not intended as a live performance plugin. It has very high latency because it does a lot of very complex calculations to do its thing and it needs a pretty long (in real-time terms) sample of audio to do it.
I do use Izotope RX in mixing once in a while, but not in GigPerformer. It reports a latency of 665ms, which is completely unusable for real time performance. It doesn’t behave well in GigPerformer, but I wouldn’t expect it to, so I’ve never actually raised the issue with the developers.
I’m wondering if something (either Nectar or GP) is automatically disabling the plugin when trying to use it live.
Got up to the church to try it this morning, worked perfectly. Thanks for the help.