TASCAM GigaEditor 4 Manual 11
Banks A GigaStudio file can contain up to 128
instruments, each ass igned to a bank . By d efault,
all instruments are assigned to bank 0, but banks
can be numbered from 0 to 16383.
Bank numbers are used when GigaStudio responds
to MIDI bank select mes sages.
Banks also help to organize instruments within the Instrument Editor. They give you a folder structure to
work with when yo u have a large num ber of instruments to deal with inside the same .gig file.
Banks are the top level of the Giga heirarchy.
e next level is the instrument. Gig les ca n have
many instruments inside them and these
instruments can share common samp les without
using any extra hard drive space o r sample buering
RAM. Each instrument has a discr ete bank and
patch change number.
An instrument can co ntain up to 128 regions, each
spanning a single key or a range o f contiguous k eys.
e gray spaces seen here are “empty” notes with no
regions assigned to them. e purple region
represents the range of the Keyswitch dimension.