Gigastudio |
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| Gigastudio is the name of a software sampler that is extremely powerful and useful for a musician. Gigastudio 24 is one of the best software samplers on the market right now. The main purpose of the software is to enhance midi, using very large sound libraries. Let me just explain the basics of how a software sampler, like Gigastudio 3 works. |
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The software sampler and your sequencer have to be loaded every time, and they work together. The software sampler, Gigastudio also has virtual midi ports that your sequencer will recognize. You have to change to the virtual midi port created by Gigastudio, within the sequencer which is very easy. Now that everything is all set, a sound library has to be loaded within the software sampler Gigastudio, every time you start it of course. Gigastudio loads the sound library from the hard drive and stores it into your RAM, which is temporary memory. This is the main benefit of this software sampler. Gigastudio has the ability to load very large sound libraries by using RAM instead of ROM (very fast memory, but not capable of storing a lot of information). Gigastudio also has an editor, where you can edit soundfont or gigastudio extensions. These extensions are the actual sound libraries, that are nothing more than a series of WAV files. Within the Gigastudio editor, you can edit things like velocity layers, looping, dsp effects, and much more. The program is versatile, and Gigastudio can completely transform a midi file if used correctly. The polyphony of the software sampler can be 256 notes or more, depending on how much RAM you have. The more RAM you have, the better your Gigastudio software sampler will perform. Upon loading the sounds you need, the sequencer will play back the music using the samplers loaded library, and the result will sound superb, depending on how expensive your sound library is. This leads me into the next topic of sound libraries. |
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