GigPerformer 4 ,.. good for slave-PC ?

[HM]

GigPerformer 4 could be bought for the ongoing 29.99 deals

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... mer_4.html

Consider using it for some 4790K slaves for main PC hosting both effects and instruments

Good idea ?

What are the alternatives ?

[Scotty]

GigPerformer 4 could be bought for the ongoing 29.99 deals

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... mer_4.html

Consider using it for some 4790K slaves for main PC hosting both effects and instruments

Good idea ?

What are the alternatives ?

Gig Performer 4 isn't included in the sale ... You can buy the earlier version Gig Performer 3. I bought it but haven't had a chance to really give it a workout. If you buy 3 they will likely give you a cheaper upgrade path to 4 which will appear in your account. It shows that I can upgrade 3 to 4 for 99 USD.I am happy with 3 for now.

"** These products are NOT included in this promotion:

AMEK EQ200, Black Box HG-2MS, Brainworx bx_console AMEK 9099, bx_console SSL 9000 J, bx_limiter TRUE PEAK, DS Audio TANTRA 2, dearVR PRO, dearVR MONITOR, Gig Performer 4, Lindell Audio 50 Series, Shadow Hills Class A, Unfiltered Audio LO-FI-AF"

[HM]

GigPerformer 4 could be bought for the ongoing 29.99 deals

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... mer_4.html

Consider using it for some 4790K slaves for main PC hosting both effects and instruments

Good idea ?

What are the alternatives ?

Gig Performer 4 isn't included in the sale ... You can buy the earlier version Gig Performer 3. I bought it but haven't had a chance to really give it a workout. If you buy 3 they will likely give you a cheaper upgrade path to 4 which will appear in your account. It shows that I can upgrade 3 to 4 for 99 USD.I am happy with 3 for now.

"** These products are NOT included in this promotion:

AMEK EQ200, Black Box HG-2MS, Brainworx bx_console AMEK 9099, bx_console SSL 9000 J, bx_limiter TRUE PEAK, DS Audio TANTRA 2, dearVR PRO, dearVR MONITOR, Gig Performer 4, Lindell Audio 50 Series, Shadow Hills Class A, Unfiltered Audio LO-FI-AF"

Thanks, sorry I did look the exclusion-list, but not carefull enough

Will be version 3 for now, version 4 later then,..

Did look throug the manual ,.. seemingly no ethernet hook-up ,.. kinda suprised me

[HM]

Still interested in alternative for all kinda hosts to slave-computers ,..

Making the slaves a stand-alone host for both instruments and effects

Work with both old desk and S1 DAW

Network link will be welcome, as long as its rock-solid and uncomplicated IRL

If no easy network is possible it will be old-fassioned midi-interfaces, and master-synced adat-ports doing the job

[Scotty]

My goal is to use it on a mobile laptop setup for very minimal live play. I could use a daw but this looks like there is some live set management . I’ll try it out.

[jancivil]

I don't get what a slave machine has particularly to do with this; it looks like a standalone plugins host with a MIDI player of some sort.
Slave computer and standalone both means you're going to be running audio from the slave back to say a sequencing master, via an audio interface and lightpipe or SPDIF back to your master interface... people for years avoid that and use VE Pro and a CAT 6 cable. Unless this is supposed to be a competitor to VE Pro at 30 bucks, one tends toward skepticism there.

The whole vibe of this product seems janky tbh. Not getting why two machines are needed for live work, a lot of moving parts there. The reason for slaves is master for a DAW and slave to run plugins. So if you have an old computer as master and need to run a slave just to have plugins perform decently, you want a networked thing over ethernet. REAPER has an internal one, not a lot to write home about however. VST Host. Mainstage on the Mac platform, there used to be a Logic node thing, donno much about.

[waltercruz]

Unless this is supposed to be a competitor to VE Pro at 30 bucks, one tends toward skepticism there.

The whole vibe of this product seems janky tbh. Not getting why two machines are needed for live work, a lot of moving parts there.

Wat, GigPerformer has nothing to do with network os anything master/slave related. It's a streamlined VST host oriented to live performance, petty much in the line of Cantabile, Mainstage (except that GP does't have any sound library at all) or other hosts.

[jancivil]

yeah, that page didn't say anything about networking, that's what I figured it was. Not a very impressive bit of marketing IME.

[deskew]

Wat, GigPerformer has nothing to do with network os anything master/slave related.

Gig Performer has a strong OSC implementation and you can absolutely communicate over multiple machines --- for example, you can trivially send MIDI messages wrapped in OSC to leverage the VSTs loaded in Gig Performer from other applications --- indeed that was one of the original design goals as I needed to be able to drive Gig Performer from existing MaxMSP patches that I had developed for use on tour before we created Gig Performer

(except that GP does't have any sound library at all) or other hosts.

Uh, the Deskew version of GP comes with quite a few plugins to help users who have zero experience with the plugin world to get started. If you have the Plugin Alliance version and you are a PA subscriber, you will also have access to their plugins as well.

That said, we deliberately do not include a comprehensive collection of plugins of our own for two reasons (which we have mentioned since introduction of GP1 a few years ago)

1. We expect that users will want to use their own favorite plugins that they already have from well-known companies (e.g, NI, Arturia, Modart, AAS, Uhe, Overloud, Positive Grid, etc). That has been born out from experience

2. There are lots of free plugins out there, many of which are absolutely superb, that users can just download and use with Gig Performer.

Our focus therefore is for GP to be the top quality host for musicians to manage their performance and we prefer to leave plugin development to those whose expertise is in that area.

[Passing Bye]

AudioGridder

[mixtur.se]

GigPerformer 4 could be bought for the ongoing 29.99 deals

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... mer_4.html

Consider using it for some 4790K slaves for main PC hosting both effects and instruments

Good idea ?

What are the alternatives ?

Gig Performer 4 isn't included in the sale ... You can buy the earlier version Gig Performer 3. I bought it but haven't had a chance to really give it a workout. If you buy 3 they will likely give you a cheaper upgrade path to 4 which will appear in your account. It shows that I can upgrade 3 to 4 for 99 USD.I am happy with 3 for now.

"** These products are NOT included in this promotion:

AMEK EQ200, Black Box HG-2MS, Brainworx bx_console AMEK 9099, bx_console SSL 9000 J, bx_limiter TRUE PEAK, DS Audio TANTRA 2, dearVR PRO, dearVR MONITOR, Gig Performer 4, Lindell Audio 50 Series, Shadow Hills Class A, Unfiltered Audio LO-FI-AF"

It was for a while because I did buy it for 29 with the first code.

[jancivil]

GigPerformer has nothing to do with [...] anything master/slave related.

Gig Performer has a strong OSC implementation and you can absolutely communicate over multiple machines --- for example, you can trivially send MIDI messages wrapped in OSC to leverage the VSTs loaded in Gig Performer from other applications --- indeed that was one of the original design goals as I needed to be able to drive Gig Performer from existing MaxMSP patches that I had developed for use on tour before we created Gig Performer

No way to tell if the person asking has that kind of edge case in mind, but for the rest of us the terminology master and slave indicates something not very like it. It means there is a master where a DAW resides sending to a slave where the heavy lifting of virtual instruments, and FX, is done and the audio from the slave is consequently heard on the master. In the old days soundcard to soundcard. OSC may be transmitted via the internet, master to slave as I describe herein not at all, it's something else with different demands.

[HM]

GigPerformer has nothing to do with [...] anything master/slave related.

Gig Performer has a strong OSC implementation and you can absolutely communicate over multiple machines --- for example, you can trivially send MIDI messages wrapped in OSC to leverage the VSTs loaded in Gig Performer from other applications --- indeed that was one of the original design goals as I needed to be able to drive Gig Performer from existing MaxMSP patches that I had developed for use on tour before we created Gig Performer

No way to tell if the person asking has that kind of edge case in mind, but for the rest of us the terminology master and slave indicates something not very like it. It means there is a master where a DAW resides sending to a slave where the heavy lifting of virtual instruments, and FX, is done and the audio from the slave is consequently heard on the master. In the old days soundcard to soundcard. OSC may be transmitted via the internet, master to slave as I describe herein not at all, it's something else with different demands.

English is not my birth-language ,.. but I thought I made myself perfectly clear

YES ,.. master/slave I just use in normal sense ,.. DAW load being distributed

I got more precise by adding that that I work with old desk also, and could use mix of soft-eff

Also I mentioned my thoughts about network/ethernet

Anyway GigPerformer is what the word indicates, for GIG's, and not really for studio it seems

So guess its Vienna or AudioGridder ,.. or forget the hole thing

[deskew]

Anyway GigPerformer is what the word indicates, for GIG's, and not really for studio it seems

And yet session musicians use it in the studio all time - routing its outputs to a DAW (or in the case of guitarists, routing to their amp with a mic in front) rather than to a PA system - the benefit being that the musician, creating their actual sound and real-time control of it with Gig Performer can record their results for an album and then use exactly the same sounds with the same real-time control when they're on stage. That transition is extremely hard to do if you use a DAW to create your sounds.

Rather than being part of the recording engineer's arsenal, think of Gig Performer as being part of the musician's "arsenal", just like the rest of their keyboards or guitars or effects pedals.

[deskew]

It means there is a master where a DAW resides sending to a slave where the heavy lifting of virtual instruments, and FX, is done and the audio from the slave is consequently heard on the master

Sure --- and again, that's totally feasible with GP -- run your DAW -- send MIDI from the DAW to GP on another machine over your network (AudioMIDI network on a Mac, or ipMIDI, to name just a few approaches) and use a variety of backends to send the audio back from GP to your DAW - or perhaps just use interfaces at both ends that support lightpipe, etc. Lots of approaches.

You'd be surprised at the flexibility.