As Arthur Hailey once wrote, “Mistrust the obvious” - we’re not like every other “similar” product for, oh, so many reasons 
As @pianopaul said already, avoid mapping plugin parameters directly to MIDI controls. That’s a really old and very inflexible approach. Gig Performer leverages host automation which is much more powerful with widgets for indirection, thereby allowing you to essentially ignore actual MIDI messages.
Just watch this video from the well known Larry the “O” to get up to speed quickly with the concept
