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marcouk · Post by **marcouk** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:27 pm

Any free plug that will play samples in Giga format? If not, what's best bet in commercial plug to play them?

GIRO · Post by **GIRO** » Sat May 27, 2006 12:49 am

marcouk wrote:Any free plug that will play samples in Giga format? If not, what's best bet in commercial plug to play them?

F R E E ? mmmmmh!

You should check the new GIGA player..

HALion is a great Giga ripper! but all new GIGA 3 formats are protected. You can't load them to an other sampler. HALion 3 libraries are also protected.

ALso! no matter what! you always have to fix some parameters when importing one format to an other!

Try getting HALion 2.0.3.5 on Ebay! for like $40 and you can import Giga 2.5 etc...
NO Giga 3 !!!

marcouk · Post by **marcouk** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:39 am

What about the Halion player plug? Would that work? Anything else I could try?

ericj23 · Post by **ericj23** » Sat May 27, 2006 10:26 am

the cheapest giga player is pretty cheap - just under £100 and will play all your giga libraries well and can connect by re-wire

in fact if your in the us its currently available from tascam at $79 - go get it

griels · Post by **griels** » Sat May 27, 2006 10:47 am

SynthFont

marcouk · Post by **marcouk** » Sat May 27, 2006 10:54 pm

griels wrote:SynthFont

?????

Has precisely what, to do with Gigasamples?

mtilli · Post by **mtilli** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:22 pm

marcouk wrote:[/Has precisely what, to do with Gigasamples?

According to website it supports giga files.

marcouk · Post by **marcouk** » Sun May 28, 2006 10:58 am

mtilli wrote:
marcouk wrote:[/Has precisely what, to do with Gigasamples?
According to website it supports giga files.

Bloatware.

It's not a vst plug, for a start

griels · Post by **griels** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:07 pm

marcouk wrote: It's not a vst plug, for a start

Yes it is.

Bloatware, maybe. But it's free, which was your stated criterion. There's no other free VST which plays Gigasamples as far as I know

chickeneps · Post by **chickeneps** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:01 am

GIRO wrote:
marcouk wrote:Any free plug that will play samples in Giga format? If not, what's best bet in commercial plug to play them?
HALion is a great Giga ripper! but all new GIGA 3 formats are protected. You can't load them to an other sampler.

Not true - Kontakt 2 loads Giga 3 just fine.

GIRO wrote:HALion 3 libraries are also protected.

This is correct, unfortunately. In fact, EVERY HALion file is protected. Bad for the enduser, unless you'll use HALion the rest of your life.

GIRO wrote:Try getting HALion 2.0.3.5 on Ebay! for like $40 and you can import Giga 2.5 etc... NO Giga 3 !!!

Or just get Kontakt 2 and load Giga 3 things.

But the original question is sort of silly. Why would you want a free plugin that loads Giga things? Giga files are usually large, need to be streamed, etc. They need a powerful sampler to get the results.

Get a real sampler, not a free one. Kontakt 2 is the best choice - or for heavens sake, just buy Giga. Giga 3 Solo is usually only $150 at the very lowest. I'll sell one to you (brand new in the box) if you want.

learjeff · Post by **learjeff** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:54 pm

Here are three very good sample format converters:

Extreme Sample Converter
CD Extract
Chicken Systems Translator

Google to find 'em, it's easy. They're all pretty reasonably priced. EXSC has a great loop editor. All have free modes (or at least did). EXSC's demo limitation is that it clips the samples to 8 or 10 bits, so the resulting sound has lots of quantization noise. CDE's limitation is you can only create single-preset results.

Giga samples - help please?