My questions / concerns

General discussion about Gig Performer
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It is still doable and I will purchase it based on your positive turnaround. Even if I don’t achieve everything I would dream of, for sure there will be plenty in GP to add to my workflow which will help one way or another in the one-person-band-do-it-all. And yes I can guarantee you in the future there will be more and more of us around. (one-person-band-do-it-all) <> Cheers! …and I will post any questions in the community in the future (if / after I exhausted any experimenting or reading tutorials if am attempting something)

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You have a fellow member in that club already right here, as I run guitar, drum, vocal, and synth instances for use in my one man setup. :slight_smile:

So, feel free to ask questions here as you go, as there’s a good chance some of us have encountered a good percentage of what you’ll want to do and have solutions/options. It’s the most helpful and knowledgeable community I’ve ever been a part of and I hope you’ll enjoy being a part of also.

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Amazing, glad to meet ya!

Am in the right place after all! Thank you!

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I’ve found that this community is most helpful if you are VERY SPECIFIC about your current environment and what you want to accomplish. Not doing this often leaves both the person asking and answering a bit frustrated. Even at that, it is easy to leave out some important information when asking a question so be patient and if you don’t take thing personally, eventually things start coming together. It is often difficult to analyze the “tone” of question or response so I try to take care to keep things professional even if the response seems a little “off”.

In all, this is a pretty great community with people willing to help.

SteveC

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In my case, I use MIDI files and the MIDI Player for automation. This lets me automate pretty much anything.

On a Mac, I develop songs on Logic, sending the outputs of the MIDI tracks to an IAC driver. Gig Performer can then receive the MIDI from that port and act. You can also use GP Relayer plugins to get audio from Logic to Gig Performer.

After you’ve developed your song on logic, with Gig Performer, export the audio and MIDI from Logic, and use the players in Gig Performer. Press Play a perform.

To refine the song, reopen your Logic project, do more development, and update the files in Gig Performer.

This works well for me. Logic for development and Gig Performer for all aspects of performing.

(FWIW, I was doing this before GP Relayer with the loopback function in RME TotalMix. Now, it’s easier than ever.)

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I am a O.M.B. I’ve been working with GP since 2014. I love the time I spend programming (I am retired and nearly 80), and I refer to the 4 hours spent most mornings programming as “my real job.” I can spend three days programming one song. It doesn’t matter how my time is spent because I am in my real job. I have found that I can save time by copying a rackspace and altering it here and there. Within minutes a new song is born after re-naming. Because I am retired, I do have the time and the inclination. Cheers, and keep at it! The effort is worth it on the end.

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Please read edm11’s comments below (maybe above?). I think the choice of terminology (“automation”) is creating more confusion than is necessary. I am not a “tech” person, but I figured out how to use GP (and over time I have gotten more proficient and dug a “bit” deeper).

If all you are talking about is changing the effects of a plugin during a performance, the way I would do it is:

  1. Create widgets in a rackspace variations and connect them to all the parameters (i.e., settings) you want to be able to change in your plugins.
  2. Using the widgets, get the sound you want for the beginning of the song.
  3. Create a “Song” (in Setlist mode) and connect the first “Song Part” to that variation. Now you should have the beginning settings for the start of the song. You should be able to play that part that way you want.
  4. If you want to change the setting you can create a new Song Part and connect it to that same Rackspace Variation (this could also all be done by creating new variations, but you can sort of skip this by doing it within song parts without creating new variations by using the Snapshot Tool within each Song Part).
  5. Within the “Song Part” go to “Edit” the widget panel in that song part. Make whatever tweaks you want to make and then save it as a “Snapshot”. So, now you have all the settings for your effects the way you want in that 2nd song part.
  6. You can keep doing this as many times as you want to get the sounds you want in each particular Song Part.
  7. [If you want to do something very different that is already set up in a different rackspace variation, you can always connect a song part to an entirely different rackspace variation. Or you can create a new Rackspace and connect it to a Song Part.]
  8. You can use a button (or a pedal) to go through each song part while you are playing the song.

I hope this helps a bit. For me, watching videos on Gig Performer Youtube videos was/is very helpful.

Jeff

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