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KVR Forum [Instruments] » Archive » Instruments » August 2001 Index | KVRFA1
AuthorTopic: Can any VSTs play .gig files?
UniversalFade
Posted: 25th August 2001 23:32
Hello. I was wondering if there are any VSTis that can play .gig files. Gigasampler just doesn't behave properly on my computer, but I LOVE some of the strings samples that are available for it. Can I use .gig files in any VSTi out there?

TIA,

Joe
Lotuz
Posted: 26th August 2001 05:19
No, as far as I know there isn't a VSTi that can read .gig files. So that means the .gig files must be converted into another format to be able to load them into one of the existing VST samplers. Awave Studio v7.3 can read .gig files and convert them to SoundFonts for example. But I've read that Awave loads the .gig files into RAM, so there's a major problem if you want to convert .gig files that are larger than your RAM. And I guess that will be the case with most .gig files. Unless you've made some small ones yourself.
Uncle E
Posted: 26th August 2001 07:13
If you're simply talking about the files getting loaded into ram during the process of conversion, wouldn't the swap file take care of this? Can't Awave convert files to Akai format, too?
Durk
Posted: 26th August 2001 08:37
Are .gigs that big? Never seen a .gig that was bigger then my available ram.
And no, I don't think awave uses the swapfile. Windows will transfer memory blocks to the swapfile when the program got inactive. But the memory blocks have to be first in the memory...
Unless awave have programmed smart... But I don't think so, if they where smart, they streamed big files in stead of loading the whole file it in memory...
I not sure of course, cause I don't use .gigs and awave...
UniversalFade
Posted: 26th August 2001 15:43
I've got plenty of ram (512mb), so it's not a problem.

Ok, I've got Awave, and when I open a .gig file, I get three "key" folders, for one .gig file, and in those key folders, I get A TON of individual samples. How do I convert ALL of those into SF2s? One at a time?
Ben [KVR]
Posted: 3rd September 2001 14:27
HALion v1.1 can import them now, apparently!!
Greedy Soul
Posted: 3rd September 2001 15:23
Sure does and very well, even on a Mac.

Cheers

Tim
tufif
Posted: 3rd September 2001 18:17
I think there's a piano .gig file that's 1.4G or something like that, and a few more that are over 1G. I hope more samplers start supporting the .gig format now that streaming from disc is becoming common.
UniversalFade
Posted: 3rd September 2001 21:50
Thank you very much for your replies. I'm going to check out Halion 1.1.
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