Tascam GigaStudio User Manual
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TASCAM GigaEditor 4 Manual
Anatomy of a .GIG File
Above is a graphic representation of the components of a GigaStudio File. Getting familiar with these will
make it much easier to know what you are doing when editing and creating GigaStudio Instruments. Th e
basic elements are:
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Banks.
A bank is a collection of instruments.
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Instruments.
Instruments are the basic performance object in GigaStudio. An instrument is
loaded on a MIDI channel, either alone or as part of a multi-instrument “stack”.
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Regions.
Each instrument can have up to 128 regions. A region defines a zone on the keyboard.
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Dimensions.
Each region can contain as many as eight dimensions. A dimension can contain up
to 128 splits, each mapped to a unique sample. Dimensions and splits allow multiple samples to be
mapped to a region, while the performer uses MIDI controllers or other methods to choose which
samples are heard at a given moment.
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Samples.
Each dimension split can be assigned a unique sample to play. Samples are imported
from standard .wav files.
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Parameters.
Each dimension split also contains a unique set of over 100 articulation parameters
defining envelopes, filters, and the like.