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Remedial · Post by **Remedial** » Sun May 08, 2005 12:08 am

What can I use to do this? Preferably for Mac.

Yossarian · Post by **Yossarian** » Sun May 08, 2005 12:21 am

www.cdxtract.com

/Yoss

Remedial · Post by **Remedial** » Sun May 08, 2005 12:37 am

Yossarian wrote:www.cdxtract.com

/Yoss

Forgot. How about: free?

Herman Witkam · Post by **Herman Witkam** » Sun May 08, 2005 12:41 am

It has a free demo trial, and so does Translator: www.chickensys.com (I don't know why I'm still posting these links - I should put them in my signature

M'Snah · Post by **M'Snah** » Sun May 08, 2005 8:07 am

Be careful though, Giga sounds don't really sound the same when put into a soundfont...

How about: free

I'm not sure if that's realistic, Gigastudio costs 100's of $$$, the sounds for Giga often even more - except for my very generous neighbor Mr Witkam. The Giga world doesn't seem to be the right context for free convertors...

Remedial · Post by **Remedial** » Sun May 08, 2005 6:28 pm

M'Snah........(aka HansM) wrote:Be careful though, Giga sounds don't really sound the same when put into a soundfont...

How about: free
I'm not sure if that's realistic, Gigastudio costs 100's of $$$, the sounds for Giga often even more - except for my very generous neighbor Mr Witkam. The Giga world doesn't seem to be the right context for free convertors...

Truthfully, I'm just trying to convert the Matt Helgenson Maestro Grand Piano (which is free). I understand that Gigastudio is expensive, but that shouldn't justify everything that is associated being high priced.

Either which way, thanks for the suggestions (from everyone that contributed).

Yossarian · Post by **Yossarian** » Sun May 08, 2005 6:38 pm

You could also try the 30-day demo for Awave from www.fmjsoft.com . I seem to remember it can do this kind of conversions though I haven’t tried it myself.

/Yoss

M'Snah · Post by **M'Snah** » Sun May 08, 2005 6:38 pm

Remedial wrote:I understand that Gigastudio is expensive, but that shouldn't justify everything that is associated being high priced.

I agree, I was just sharing my expectations about finding free stuff for Giga.
I use ESC to convert Giga sets into Wusik or just .WAV.... But that's not free either.

lawapa · Post by **lawapa** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:32 pm

You could if time and patience is not a factor use to ol 1,2,3. Fire up giga, knock off/render a set of wave samples and build a sounfont from that set. With as many velocity levels as you like

It's free and all your out is time. I use much the same process for building fonts from softsynths.(conserves cpu on heavyhitters and combinations) And all you have to do is trim/crop, normalize and name then to note. Sound like fun? The first few I tried did take some time but once you get going and know what you need then it's just time. Price is right though.

MidiMan · Post by **MidiMan** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:49 pm

Yossarian wrote:You could also try the 30-day demo for Awave from www.fmjsoft.com . I seem to remember it can do this kind of conversions though I haven’t tried it myself.

/Yoss

You'd need LOTS of RAM to convert Maestro Grand with AWave. I've tried on my 1,5Gb machine and ran out of memory...

mmdejonge · Post by **mmdejonge** » Sun May 08, 2005 8:35 pm

Herman Witkam wrote:It has a free demo trial, and so does Translator: www.chickensys.com (I don't know why I'm still posting these links - I should put them in my signature

I second Translator free. It took 5 minutes to convert The Maestro into a soundfont

Jafo · Post by **Jafo** » Sun May 08, 2005 8:51 pm

My spies inform me that mmdejonge wrote:I second Translator free. It took 5 minutes to convert The Maestro into a soundfont

Yep, and it sounds just the same as the original .gig -- I haven't done a bit-for-bit comparison or anything, but it's at least close enough that I'm satisfied. To paraphrase M'Snah, it usually doesn't work out as well.

hansgrubner · Post by **hansgrubner** » Mon May 09, 2005 4:33 pm

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(Load it in Vsampler 3.51 and save as soundfont. Very good conversion--and a great additional sampler for 129,-EUR--perhaps better than others)

http://www.maz-sound.com/main.php?&PHPS ... efce43de04 (http://www.maz-sound.com/main.php?&PHPSESSID=f7f5a523df64c019536341efce43de04)

Remedial · Post by **Remedial** » Wed May 25, 2005 1:46 am

Jafo wrote:
My spies inform me that mmdejonge wrote:I second Translator free. It took 5 minutes to convert The Maestro into a soundfont
Yep, and it sounds just the same as the original .gig -- I haven't done a bit-for-bit comparison or anything, but it's at least close enough that I'm satisfied. To paraphrase M'Snah, it usually doesn't work out as well.

Could someone explain (possibly step by step) how I can use chickensys translator free to convert a giga file to soundfont? For some reason I can't get it done. Also, the version that I have says that all translations are disabled. Am I the only one experiencing this?

learjeff · Post by **learjeff** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:59 pm

Translator Free just crashes on my system, so no luck there. I highly recommend Extreme Sample Converter (EXSC) which isn't free but well worth the price as it allows you to tweak parameters (though not key/velocity zones). It also has the world's greatest loop editor ever (nice for shrinkin a big soundfont down to size for live use).

Note that some Giga sounds won't sound right in .sf2 format, which is missing a very basic and important control: feeding velocity into the filter cutoff frequency (DOH!) Instead, you have to fudge it using lots of zones. This is only important for "lesser" giga sounds (as well as many free .sf2 sounds). Sounds that have sampled velocity layers don't need this reature much; samples that only have one, two, or three really do (for instruments where the timbre changes dramatically with velocity, meaning most instruments).

Converting a giga file to a soundfont...