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Digital Audio Workstation & MIDI => Digital Audio Workstations & MIDI Applications => Sampler Software, Sample CDs, & Sample Libaries => Topic started by: supernova777 on December 02, 2013, 06:17:01 AM

Title: use a 64bit pc/os w/ 8-16gb RAM as a hardware sampler w/ GIGASTUDIO!
Post by: supernova777 on December 02, 2013, 06:17:01 AM

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec98/articles/gigasample.143.htm
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov00/articles/nemesys.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19990428104826/http://www.nemesystech.com/gsampler.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20000229031246/http://www.nemesystech.com/gsampler.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20001018091152/http://www.nemesystech.com/sitemap.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20001204205800/http://www.nemesystech.com/support/hardware.html



1998
http://tascam.com/product/gigasampler/

(http://tascam.com/content/images/universal/products/506/main.jpg)

anyone have any info on this?
not sure if it was a vst or plugin - seems like it was a standalone app to turn your pc into a hardware sampler?

Title: Re: GigaSampler
Post by: supernova777 on December 02, 2013, 07:22:28 AM

my bad it seems this was windows only??? i think?
and was renamed to "Tascam GigaStudio"

Title: Re: GigaSampler
Post by: MacTron on December 02, 2013, 07:43:36 AM

Quote from: chris9Lives on December 02, 2013, 07:22:28 AM

my bad it seems this was windows only??? i think?
and was renamed to "Tascam GigaStudio"

Yes. It's Windows only. But Halion, Kontakt, Kompakt and others Mac Os 9 samplers can import Gigasampler format instruments up to version 2. Gigasampler 3 format may include some samples in a lossless compressed  format incompatible with Mac Os 9 software.

Title: Re: GigaSampler
Post by: supernova777 on December 02, 2013, 08:48:56 AM

http://www.etcetera.co.uk/products/TAS520.shtml

it seems to be best put to use with a pc as standalone acting just like a midi external sampler.. sending midi to the pc box + routing audio back
as illustrated in the above link!

(for those of us that have a million pcs this isnt much trouble to set up;)

Title: Re: GigaSampler
Post by: supernova777 on December 03, 2013, 04:50:03 AM

(http://media.soundonsound.com/sos/aug08/images/qa080802_l.jpg)

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug08/articles/qa0808_2.htm
heres an article on using a pc with gigastudio as a 64 bit hardware sampler


http://tascam.com/product/gigastudio_4/
gigastudio 4

requirements:
Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz - 2.66 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 5800+ processor
2GB RAM, 1024 x 768 monitor resolution
1GB application hard drive space
Dedicated sample drive 7200 RPM w/8MB cache / 8.9 ms seek time
MIDI interface
GSIF-compatible sound card or ReWire-compatible host application