TASCAM GigaEditor 4 Manual 83
Chapter 5: The Instrument Wizard Up to this point, everything has been done manually with the drag-and-drop method.
To better understand the Instrument Wizard, you need to be familiar with the manual method of mapping
samples and creati ng dimensions .
Also, certain instruments like Dru m Kits will still need to be created with the drag-and-d rop method since
each region will usual ly be dierent from the other and th e Instrument Wiz ard won’t work very well for
these.
e Instrument Wizard works best on melodic instr uments like pianos, guitars and orchestral instruments.
You can imagine that if you had to create a full 88 note piano with 8 velocities and sustain pedal switches, it
would take an enormous amount of time to do it manually, note by note. is is where the Instrument
Wizard comes in. It allows you to ma p an entire inst rument with mu ltiple dimensio ns “instantly”. Once
you have the samples properly named a nd organized, you are only seco nds away from having an
instrument mapped out.
As you edit and organize your samp les, you need to also be aware of g etting them ready for the Instru ment
Wizard if you plan to use it. is is very simp le and will save a lot of t ime.
Sample Names and Unity Notes
For the Instrument Wi zard to work, it ne eds to know the Uni ty Note (also know n as Root Note) of ea ch
sample. is is the note that the pitch is recorded at and assigned to on the key board. Even if the sampl es
are not chromatic, the Instrum ent Wizard can assign th em to their root note a nd then stretch the regio ns
until they meet each other.
e Editor will recogniz e the unity note of a sample if the sample name indicate s the unity note by MIDI
note number or by n ote name. For e xample, middle C would be note name C4 or MIDI note number 60 .
MIDI Note Name Rang e: C-1 through G9
MIDI Note Number Ra nge: 0 through 127
Just put the Note Name or Note Number in the Sample Name before importing the samples into the Editor.
To keep from confu sing the Editor , we recommend putting this nam e or number at the end of th e le name
with a space separating it from the rest of the characters.
Example:
Piano Velocity-4 C4.wav
Piano Velocity-4 60.wav
e Editor wil l have no troub le recognizing les that are n amed like this. On the other ha nd, naming th e
samples like this might be confusing for the Editor to gure out the unity note.
Piano Velocity-4C4.wa v
Piano Velocity-460.wav
Note: e Instrument W izard can also simply ma p the samples out in alph abetical order as well. is works
for sound eects, percu ssion and other non-mel odic instruments.