software & accessories for musicians and sound technicians

GiG Player

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GiG Partner is actually packaged as two separate programs ..

 

 GiG Partner : Allows you to create songs, song events and gigs (set lists).

 GiG Player   : The gigging component which plays the MP3 background music, scrolls the lyrics, fires the Midi events etc.

 

(NOTE: GiG Player may be installed on MULTIPLE computers for your convenience - without additional license fees !)

 

 

GiG Player Components:

GiG Player is the actual software product that you will be using for your gigs. The Display consists of 3 main components..

1.  Lyrics Box

2.  Media Control Panel

3.  Song List (or set list)

 

The new version of the player in GiG Partner 'X' now places these components into three individual, moveable and sizeable pieces. This allows you to configure GiG Player to match your display properties and orientation. 

 

Lyrics Box (1):

This component displays your lyrics. It also includes manual scroll buttons should you need to do so (or in cases where there is no backing track for a song and you wish to scroll manually). 

The Lyrics Box part also contains the CUE display (top horizontal window) as well as buttons to load or restart a gig.

 

Media Control Panel (2):

This panel controls the functions of the player which include ..

* Play / Pause

* Stop

* Skip-to-next song

* Volume Up / Volume down

 

It is suggested, however, that you would most likely prefer to use a three-button foot pedal instead of clicking the controls with your mouse - especially in a live performance situation. Note however that the [Space Bar] on your keyboard can be used to play/pause your music any time as well.

 

Song List (3):

The Song List component displays the songs in SET LIST format. You can see which songs are coming up, which have already been played and which have been skipped. You can also pick a song to be played immediately, or have it queued to play as the next song.

If the Song List is not in 'unlock' mode (being displayed all the time), it can be recalled any time via the foot switch or clicking the SONGS button on the right side of the Lyrics Box component.

 

 

GiG Partner

CREATING A NEW SONG:

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Creating songs in GiG Partner has never been easier!

Simply provide a name for the song and pick a backing track (if it has one).

You can have lyrics text files already saved and ready to go, OR you can create/edit the lyrics right then and there. Creating lyrics can now be done right within GiG Partner without the need of an external WORD processor! You can also copy-and-paste the lyrics content from a web page or other source right into the lyrics box! 

You can also specify if this song is in your regular repertoir (POPULAR) or not yet part of your performance. You can also select from five different font colors to represent song types such things as genre or who sings it. This makes it easier when creating set lists, etc..

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Once you create a new song with a music file and (optionally) a lyrics file, you next create the events for this song. Events include the following functions ...

 * Cue Messages to describe a point in the song, i.e. "Verse #1 begins .."

 * Lyrics Scroll events to scroll the lyrics to the next scroll point.

 * Get your attention by FLASHING the Lyrics or Cue Message boxes to signify an important event in the song.

 * Insert MIDI events to control lighting, effects, instruments or anything that is either MIDI based or DMX (via MIDI) based!

Unlike the previous version of GiG Partner that used RTF files and scrolled lyrics by 'pixels', GiG Partner 'X' took on a simpler approach. Simply put, a lyrics scroll action causes the lyrics to move to the next scroll point. A scroll point is simply the first line AFTER TWO BLANK LINES in the text. When creating lyrics, you can verify where these scroll points will be by clicking the SHOW SCROLL POINTS button (6).

The Song Events (1) are displayed and scrollable on the left. To create a Cue Message such as "GUITAR LEAD", simply type out the message and click [Cue Save] (2).

Optionally you can flash the Cue box to make a message more noticeable.

When the RECORD button is ON (RECORD New Events), every press of a button to scroll the Lyrics (3) creates an event at that moves the lyrics to the next stop point of the song.

Pressing the [Flash Lyrics] button (4) changes the background of the lyrics box at that point in the song to indicate a significant event during the music, such as the start of singing after there has been a guitar solo, etc..

Pressing the MIDI Event button (5) causes music playback to pause and opens a list of all the midi commands for the defined midi devices.

Any time you wish to make changes to the lyrics, click the LYRICS EDITOR button (7) to enter lyrics edit mode. No more having to switch back to your word processor software - you can do it all inside GiG Partner!

 CREATING GIGS:

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The "GiGs" button allows you to design an entire performance of songs in the form of sets and breaks. You can create a new gig starting from a copy of an existing one, or create an entire new gig from scratch.

 

The box on the left (1) shows songs available (ones not yet already in the gig). You can search by name or just browse the list for the song.

Entries in the Gig (2) can be songs or set dividers. A divider ( i.e BREAK 3) separates the songs into sets and breaks.

As you add songs to that set, the new total time will be automatically updated on the bottom of that list (4) so that you can create sets exactly to the length of time you desire, i.e. 45 minutes.

Although you can arrange the songs in sets as you desire, during the performance you can always search for a specific song to queue up for song request, etc.. In fact, there are also hot-keys you program to cause GiG Partner to jump right to specific songs that are extras that may be needed to be called up "on-the-fly" during a performance!

 

    footpedal.jpgOPTIONAL FOOT PEDAL

The optional (and highly recommended) Foot Pedal gives you much more stealth control over your performances. You almost never need to touch the laptop as you can do most functions used with a  3-button pedal, such as ...

Functions while a backing track is playing ..

    - Play/Pause a song

    -Skip to the next song in the set/queue

    - Increase or Decrease the track's playback volume

    - Jump to Song List to select a song to queue up

 Functions during Song List mode ...

    - scroll up/down through songs

    - select a song to load or queue

 

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