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Tutorial 2
Creating & Working With Performances
A performance (.GSP) file contains no audio data, no MIDI data, and no pictures of
your significant other. What good is it then? Basically, it contains a map of every instru-
ment loaded, every knob, fader, and slider setting, every audio effect (NFX & VST), and
GigaPulse plug-in setting, as well as the size and arrangement of the various graphical
components as they are displayed on your monitor(s). All this can be instantly recalled
with a single tiny little performance (.GSP) file.
There are two main ways to create a new performance file:
Start with a blank new performance. New performances have a default
state with all the factory default performance settings.
All the instrument loader slots are empty and the faders are all at nominal settings,
with no FX loaded. Essentially you have a blank slate. Using the skills you learned in the
QuickSound tutorial you gradually build up a number of instruments, tweak the vari-
ous settings, and add some plug-in processing. The sum total of all the particular set-
tings you have made are then saved with the performance.
An alternative method of creating a performance is to open an existing
performance file, change it to suit a special need. Then do a “Save As..” to
create an additional performance with a new and unique name.
In this manner you can have several performances derived from the same basic tem-
plate of loaded instruments, mixer settings, tweaks, and plug-ins, but each tailored to a
specific application. Using this approach it is possible to have a skeletal rhythm section
saved as BasicRhythm.GSP or My Drums.GSP and tailor each performance derived from
this to have different additional rhythm and lead instruments.
Be aware that performance files are tiny, like MIDI files, in that they contain only
pointer data for the various parameters and a map of the loaded instrument locations,
not the instruments themselves. Therefore making a multitude of variations of a huge
performance is going to take very little hard drive space.
Custom Default Performance
Any performance environment can be made to be the “Default Performance”. There
is probably a way you would like to define your own version of a clean slate as being
somewhat different from the way the factory default .GSP is configured. After working
with GigaStudio performances for a while you may find yourself always loading up a
particular performance when staring a new project. This would be a good reason to set
it up as your default performance. There are two very simple ways to do this: