10 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 c reating GigaStudio Instruments. e
basic elements are:
• Banks. A bank is a collectio n of instruments.
• Instruments. Instrum ents are the basic performance object in GigaStudio . An instrument is
loaded on a MIDI channel, either alone or as part of a multi-instrume nt “stack”.
• Regions. Each instrument can have up to 128 regions. A region denes a zone on the keyboard.
• 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, whi le the performer us es MIDI controllers o r other methods t o choose which
samples are heard at a given mom ent.
• Samples. Each dimension split can be a ssigned a unique sample to pl ay. Samples are imported
from standard .wav les.
• Parameters. Each dimension split also contains a unique set of over 100 articulation parameters
dening envelopes, lters , and the like.