Marty Wade:
I bought a couple of the guitar VSTs and then suddenly realized I actually need to try and figure how I use these out in a live situation. The only software I had at the time was Ableton Live. And me being a dinosaur, even more so back then, I literally thought it was a matter of putting a guitar sound in each in each track and just use and just arm those tracks. But I quickly found out that because of the memory types of organization in inside DAWs, you quickly run out of puff.
And more like seven or eight sounds in and latencies creeping in and all that kind of stuff. So that was ditched. And it was ridiculously complicated to try and put up those chain selectors. I YouTubed that for a day and a half. My brain turned to smoosh! I went, “Nope, that’s not for me.”
I then switched to MainStage. Took another month to figure out concert level and all that malarkey. I got a few sounds set up and first rehearsal it crashed on me twice. So that was chucked out immediately!
Then I found Gig Performer and have never looked back.
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If you’re a musician that plays live anyway, that’s how we think: Connecting cables into instruments and out to speakers.
So, you’re halfway there. As soon as you’ve figured out what the Gig Performer blocks do and how you connect them, you really are more than halfway there. When it comes to channel strips, that doesn’t sit well in my head.
Yes, you’ve got a list of things that are that are listed in a channel strip – but my musical brain doesn’t want to work!
That’s okay in a DAW when you’re recording things, but that’s not the way it works in a live situation.
