KVR Audio

asnor · Post by **asnor** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:16 pm

If you haven't already heard, Tascam has ceased development on the revolutionary software that made most of what sampling is today possible. My opinion, of course, on that latter bit.

Anyway GigaStudio is no longer being developed and support will cease as of the end of this year.

Compyfox · Post by **Compyfox** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:42 pm

Pity, they pushed the "Keyswitch" scene right from the start, had a very CPU light sampler which was considered the most powerful and most easiest to setup (multirig) standalone solution BEFORE Kontakt 2.

Then again, it was dissapointing that the GVI engine was so buggy (at least for some of my colleagues, since I use Halion and Kontakt mostly, I can't relate) and TASCAM never really did anything against it.

Up until today, I still can't decide which sampleset to go for... Kontakt ready ones, or GIG3 ones. Sadly I mostly only go for Kontakt ones - cheaper and way more possibilties in terms of scripting. I guess this was the end for the GIGA concept.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:46 pm

Didn't they just release a new version?

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:48 pm

exactly

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:54 pm

Yes, they did. I thought the GVI concept was going to be used more. Maybe they just decided to go a different direction. I'm a Kontakt user, but it's still sad to see GIGA go.

Just for the sake of accuracy, is there a link to this news? That way nobody can say that it's just made up if it's not?

Brent

Cyrosis · Post by **Cyrosis** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:59 pm

http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/sho ... hp?t=62016

That's the closest thing to an official announcement I can find. It appears its just the developers that have been informed officially at this point.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:00 pm

http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=1738

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:03 pm

kind of sad to see giga go, but then it's been ages since I used it.

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:07 pm

Here is the best I could find:

http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=1738

It has a couple other links.

EDIT: Whoops! aMUSED beat me to it!

Brent

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:08 pm

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:09 pm

aMUSEd wrote:um look up

I didn't see it until after I posted. I edited my last post.

Brent

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:10 pm

DOH! Now I'm all confused!

Brent

asnor · Post by **asnor** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:22 pm

This pretty well says it all. Here's a link to Tascams legacy software product page.

http://www.tascam.com/legacy;37,7.html

diephedaus · Post by **diephedaus** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:30 pm

VI Control thread...

http://vi-control.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9940

marce · Post by **marce** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:04 am

Would nice to know about the linuxsampler giga replacement. Is that project dead too?

RIP GigaStudio