I don’t have a LaunchPad so I just selected a different controller. With the Midi In tool selected on the right, click on the MIDI Input dropdown to select the actual MIDI device from which events will be sent. Open MidiPipe – you’ll see a list of tools on the left and an empty pipe on the right.ĭouble-click on the Midi In tool – an instance of that tool will appear as the first item in the pipe So using MidiPipe, let’s give an example of how to receive NoteOn messages from the Novation LaunchPad and convert them into Program Change messages that will be received by Gig Performer. These applications can receive MIDI events from external devices, transform them in various ways and then send out the transformed events. While such things can be accomplished by using Gig Performer’s programming language, GPScript, there are several free third-party applications that make this kind of thing really easy.Įxamples of such programs are MidiPipe for the Mac (free but donations accepted) and the well-known MIDI-OX for Windows (free but donations accepted). The following text applies to older versions of Gig Performer. Make sure to check out this article (especially the Bonus section) for an example.

Important note: Gig Performer 4 includes the System Actions block which makes switching rackspace variations or song parts with Note messages very easy. However, that product only produces MIDI Note Events but Gig Performer expects Program Change MIDI events so what do you do?

We recently got a question from a user who wanted to be able to switch rackspaces and variations using a Novation Launchpad.

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