KVR Audio

chanjay · Post by **chanjay** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:27 am

Hi,

I wonder if there is any differences in terms of sound, between these two players? which one sounds closer to the original Gigastudio?

This is a quote from G-Player site "G-Player was created to emulate the Gigastudio™ sound as close as possible."

Thanks.

hc.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:17 am

chanjay wrote:I wonder if there is any differences in terms of sound, between these two players? which one sounds closer to the original Gigastudio?

Linux Sampler is free while G-Player costs USD149. I guess there must be a reason for that

Lost_Highway · Post by **Lost_Highway** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:50 am

LinuxSampler doesn't support all the features of Giga v3, notably convolution and articulation files.

That said, I and many other Linux musicians are happy with LinuxSampler. I've got several Sampletekk (and PMI) pianos (amongst many other gigs), as has a friend, and it does the job well enough - although neither of us have used Gigastudio nor can use G-Player so I can't offer you any sort of comparison.

Free does not necessarily mean poor quality

chanjay · Post by **chanjay** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:35 pm

Well...I will be using this only for Garritan Orchestral Strings, Dan Dean Solo Woodwinds, Solo Brass, & Brass Ensemble.

hc.

briandc · Post by **briandc** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:43 am

Lost_Highway wrote:LinuxSampler doesn't support all the features of Giga v3, notably convolution and articulation files.

That said, I and many other Linux musicians are happy with LinuxSampler. I've got several Sampletekk (and PMI) pianos (amongst many other gigs), as has a friend, and it does the job well enough - although neither of us have used Gigastudio nor can use G-Player so I can't offer you any sort of comparison.

Free does not necessarily mean poor quality

I use LinuxSampler (there's also a frontend called "Fantasia" that's really nice). It opens sf2, sfz and .gig files just fine. Actually, I'd love to find more .gig files to dump into it, because I really like the way it behaves. (Any suggestions welcome!

)

brian

chanjay · Post by **chanjay** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:11 pm

I have actually downloaded and used LinuxSampler as well....and yes it is a great program, you can load .gig files. However I am still curious about G-Player, specially their web site' statements on how close it sounds to the original Gigastudio sounds.

Will samples sound different among different samplers?

hc.

chanjay · Post by **chanjay** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:25 pm

Did anyone notice that LinuxSampler volume level is relatively low compare to other VSTis? I have turned up the volume level al the way, but when playing along with other instruments, the sound is buried.

HC.

Lost_Highway · Post by **Lost_Highway** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:55 pm

There are two volumes in LS itself, one on every channel and then a master volume - have you turned both up to full? Mine defaults to -9.1 dB on the master volume when started up.

I've also found I can get more volume by turning up the volume on my controller - that seems to be a third thing affecting the level.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 7:30 pm

LinuxSampler has gained on G-Player, as it has gone v2

Linux Sampler vs G-Player?