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Now each velocity split is mapped to the correct sample.
When mapping unpitched samples su ch as most drums, use the sam e technique, but drag the samples with
the right mouse button. is will automatically turn o pitch tracking in the region, preventing the sample
from being pitch-shied at playbac k.
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 th e Download button on the .gig le’s toolbar.
You may be prompted to save your work before pr oceeding. is is becaus e certain major edits to a .gig le
require that the le be re-writt en to disk and reloaded by t he sampler.
Since adding instruments, regions, o r splits to a le all r equire a reload, you’re more likely to encounter this
message in the early stages of const ructing an instrument. M inor edits, such as changes to sp lit points and
articulation parameters , are communicated di rectly to the instrume nt in memory and do not requ ire a le
save.
When the instrument is loaded into memory, the LOADED indicator lights green, and the
instrument is ready to play.
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 sim ple technique that can not o nly create a large
number of regions at once, but also m ap samples at the same time.
1. Grab one or more sam ples with the m ouse and drop them into the Re gion Window. Yo u can also
drop an entire samp le folder (which i s one reason w e encouraged you earlier to organ ize your
samples into folders):