How To Play Your Plugins Live

[@daveboulden]

How-to videos like this are a great resource. Love Marty's presenting style too!

[@martysmagicalmusicmancave]

Yeah but I can’t make a sampler out of a ZX Spectrum !!!

[@MikkiYoMikki]

You're imagination is the only limit with GP... Loving it so far.. Awesome video!

[@mypocketdojo]

As a newbie, this is super helpful to get started. Thank you. After quite some time I have my Oxygen Pro 61 mapped to VSTs for the first time ever. Brilliant!

[@edmackay5352]

Outstanding video. Marty Wade is one of the best in the business.

[@JDSoundsets]

Looks great and wonderful choice of VST's for the Demo :)

[@d.j.divinedivineproduction8375]

Oh Man this is crazy sick , just great. I can now also use my old skool,keyboard an m-audio radium 61 with a lot of buttons and sliders to control my VST synt buttons And my Roland A-33 tot play the keys. Haha Love this. Will Enhance my workflow

[@magicmulder]

Thanks man, super helpful introduction, will definitely get this. :)

[@-303-]

One of the best things about using GP 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"). There are workflows, tools, and techniques to make this easier in Live. Lots of playback engineers and artists use Live for big name shows. It's possible. But... 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 GP. Nothing even comes close. Not Mainstage. Not anything else. Gig Performer is the absolute best solution.

[@tristankerr3655]

When I have 15 songs open with about 80 plugins for guitar, vocals and keyboard live performance the latency is crazy. So does GP get rid of latency completely?

[@craigfitzgerald772]

GP is so much easier to work with in setting up MIDI on multiple VST instruments than my DAW; with multiple MIDI inputs. Then use the GP relayer into the DAW to record. Using Tripleplay on one of my guitars to a left and right synth, use the transpose plugin to drop the right hand down an octave through an arpegiator, through GP relayer then through my outputs. Spent an hour trying to do it innmy DAW, couldn't get it right, took 5 minutes to get it setup in GP.

[@xiwan1601]

What gadgets are you using to perform this live? Interface and computer for example

[@nemanjapudar201]

Marty and other live performers are active in our community forum. Please join our forum and ask this question.

[@AlyanaVasco]

I hope someone can explain how to control sustain pedal in every vst and velocity.. I don't know much about GP..

[@GigPerformer]

gigperformer.com/separate-your-sustain-pedal-from-your-controller

[@kisho2679]

works for iPad aswell?

[@DavidJamesonPhD]

Gig Performer is Mac and Windows - it does not run on an iPad

[@skimangojazz]

4:00 of advertisements with no Skip button before watching?! That's a new one, better be a good video I'm still waiting for it.

[@DavidJamesonPhD]

Not sure why that would be happening. When I open that link it starts with an ad but I can click on “skip” after five seconds.

[@skimangojazz]

@@DavidJamesonPhD Yeah, weird, I clicked the skip ahead button, it took me to the next video, then the back button and it played. It was a good video though and worth going through this to watch.

[@nemanjapudar201]

It's a good video :)

[@impulseproman]

I wish GP add Send/ Return to the Mixer

[@MikkiYoMikki]

What do you mean? You can send to fx and return to mixer

[@impulseproman]

When you add a GP mixer and wire multiple vst instruments to that mixer, if you have send and return fx on that mixer you can easily add delay and reverb to multiple instruments with send Efx

[@impulseproman]

Yes its the Best thing that happen on stage

[@jumb0j0ck]

"...slightly leathery and beer-stained..." You make that sound like it's a bad thing. 😅

[@ronnyb5890]

DAWs can do this also,fl studio does this with patcher and studio one with their layer tool, naturally you will have to load up your DAW while gig performer is stand alone

[@GigPerformer]

DAWs typically can't switch from one set of interconnected plugins to another completely different set of interconnected plugins (selecting maybe from hundreds of choices) on the fly with instant changes in the middle of a bar during a live performance. They're just not designed for that....while one can perhaps "hack" a DAW a bit to do some of it, it's a bit like using a bicycle instead of an airplane to get from one side of the country to the other. DAWs and live performance hosts very have different goals.

[@nipun9504]

​@@GigPerformercan't the switching of interconnected plugins be done by just simply changing the selected track, in a DAW? Like you can set up a unique set of plugin chain for every track, and map the controller to change tracks on the fly, is this a similar process? I'm not saying DAW is a better tool for the job, just curious!

[@GigPerformer]

@@nipun9504 For example, try (a) just implementing this plugin "chain" on a track in your DAW (see attached). In this (not untypical) example, I have three MIDI controllers, two of them have splits and the third without a split. One split of Controller 1 is going to an acoustic piano while the other split of that same controller is going to the same acoustic piano and to a hammond organ. The Hammond organ then goes to both a phaser and an echo/reverb effect while the piano goes to just the (same) phaser. They then go out on separate audio channels. Meanwhile the first split of Controller 2 is going to three different plugins, two with individual transpose values and a portion of that Choir gets sent to that same Phaser. Note, for example, that that Phaser behaves as an "Insert" for the piano and hammond" while it behaves as a Send for the Choir. This took about 2 minutes to set up in GP. Of course, we're ignoring that there will be widgets on the front panel to (perhaps) control cross-fading between multiple synth plugins or to change the transpose amounts on the fly as well as controlling specific parameters of individual plugins. Then, perhaps using a pedal, when I switch to another rackspace that has a completely different set of interconnected plugins while holding down a chord, the notes of the first rackspace will remain on until I release them, while new notes will go to the new rackspace. i.imgur.com/KIbsGJz.png

[@justin.johnson]

"but can't you, but can't you" blah blah blah. NO!!! What purpose and point are you after? Why do soo many noobs without any experience continue saying stupid shit fighting experts?

[@GigPerformer]

@@justin.johnson To whom are you responding?