Tascam 4 Hearing Your Work, Faster Way To Work, Creating and mapping regions automatically

Now each velocity split is mapped to the correct sample.

When mapping unpitched samples such as most drums, use the same technique, but drag the samples with the right mouse button. This will automatically turn off pitch tracking in the region, preventing the sample from being pitch-shifted at playback.

Hearing Your Work

At this point we’ve created the beginnings of a Giga instrument, but we haven’t yet heard what it sounds like. To hear your work, press the Download button on the .gig file’s toolbar.

You may be prompted to save your work before proceeding. This is because certain major edits to a .gig file require that the file be re-written to disk and reloaded by the sampler.

Since adding instruments, regions, or splits to a file all require a reload, you’re more likely to encounter this message in the early stages of constructing an instrument. Minor edits, such as changes to split points and articulation parameters, are communicated directly to the instrument in memory and do not require a file save.

When the instrument is loaded into memory, the LOADED indicator lights green, and the instrument is ready to play.

A Faster Way To Work

Creating and mapping regions automatically

So far in this chapter we’ve seen how to create individual regions and map samples to them one by one. While these techniques have their uses, they’re too labor-intensive to be suitable for creating a large instrument from scratch. In this section we’ll look at a simple technique that can not only create a large number of regions at once, but also map samples at the same time.

1.Grab one or more samples with the mouse and drop them into the Region Window. You can also drop an entire sample folder (which is one reason we encouraged you earlier to organize your samples into folders):

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