6 TASCAM GigaEditor 4 Manual
3. e wave view has a new mod e in which the sample is d rawn as if the amplitude e nvelope has
already been applied to it. is mode is toggled by a sm all button near the zoom and unzoom
buttons.
4. Giga 4 supports a unique audition s ample for each instrumen t in a .GIG le (not just a single
audition sample for the whole le). Right-click on a sample f or options.
5. Right-clicking in the parameter valu e list (lower right) brings up a new “Copy to all inst ances”
menu option. e value of th e selected param eter is copied t o all subregio ns throughout th e le
that are mapped to the same samp le as the current one. For exa mple, if a sample is found to
benet from a ne tuning change, this feature can quickly copy the new tuning to any other splits
to which the same sample is asssi gned.
6. e right-click menu in t he sample list has a new o ption, “Replace all samples i n all folders.” is
is an expansion of the existing “Replace all samples in folder” command. e editor searches a
specied root directory and its subdirectories, replacing any sample if a .wav or .dxl le with a
matching name is found. ( ere is a more selective o ption for cases where the sam ples on disk are
arranged in subdirectories that mirror the folders in the .gig le. When this option is in eect,
samples in a given folder will be r eplaced only by les found in a subdirectory of the sam e name as
the folder.)
7. e maximum number of layers (splits in a layer dimension) has been increased from 8 to 128.
8. While in the past it’s been easy to cha nge the controller assigned t o a dimension, velocity has been
an exception: once a velocity dim ension, always a velocity dim ension. Giga Editor 4.0 wi ll now
allow a velocity dimension to be changed to any other controller. Note that when this is done, the
dimension will mov e from the dedi cated velocity window to one o f the unused sm all dimension
windows.
9. An instrument can now cause up to two MIDI controllers to be initialized to specied va lues
whenever it is loaded. e controllers and their desired values are speci ed in the Instrument
Properties. is is for instrum ents using fea tures like the Dynamic Expressio n Filter, which m ight
sound best when the controlling CC value is set to something other than the default.
10. A new variant of the “Round Robin” dimension cont roller has bee n added. e new control ler is
called “Round Robin across keyboard”, and advances the dimension globa lly when a key is struck
anywhere on the keyboard. e older “Round Robin” (which is still available) advances the
dimension only for the region in which the note is played. In the case where the number of splits
in this dimension varies across th e keyboard, the new rule us es a modulo addressing te chnique.
ere are several ways t o open the Instrument Edito r depending on your situation .
Opening the Instrument Edit or from GigaStudio
To open the Instrume nt Editor from Gi gaStudio, click on t he Launch Giga editor toolbar button.