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Easy installation under Windows 98 with version 2.2. I use a multi-Hoontech customers with Sonar and it turns smoothly. I can even open Soundforge and everything works. Seeda concrete green zip board.
The manual is probably insufficient maiscomme much I use it only as a sample player.SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCEPIIII 1.5 GHz with an ASUS P4 RAMBUS and 300 MHz for 512 MB HD 7200 should be a T (an IBM 40 GB) dedicated to Gigastudio that everything works well and install on the same IDE port as the main disk.The performance is unbeatable. I used it with my Hoontech DSP 24 and a 20: no problem.OVERALL OPINIONI use it for 2 years.
I listen more nepeux other NSOs (type external expanders). Its price is fair but the cd sounds are trp expensive. It has a default size but we can not use VST or DXi which complicates the recording (not possible to use the Bounce to track). It passes through the outside or using a direct recording function that requires to play the song: beware of sync problems!
By Martin WalkerThe latest incarnation of Tascam's Gigastudio introduces support for 64-bit operating systems and the ability to address up to 128GB of RAM. Are there any catches? Let's find out.NOTE: after going to press with this August edition review at the end of June, we learned that TEAC/Tascam have ceased development of their Gigastudio sample software platform from July 21st. Please for more info.Gigasampler was quite revolutionary when first released, being the very first sample player to stream samples in real time directly from a hard drive. This removed the requirement for lots of RAM in order to load in samples in their entirety, as well as the need to loop the sustained portion of notes to make them seem longer, and for the very first time you could play back samples with durations of minutes instead of seconds.My first encounter with the Giga range was in 1998, when I reviewed Gigasampler 1.5 — and I was most impressed with its ability to stream up to a massive 4.3GB of sample data direct from a hard drive. Two years later I was reviewing Gigastudio 160, with its awesome 160-note maximum polyphony, its own range of built-in basic EQ and plug-in effects, and wider audio interface support.However, it was another four years before the release of Gigastudio 3, with support for 24-bit/96kHz samples, VST plug-ins, a far more sophisticated user interface including the 'DSP Station' mixing console, and the excellent Gigapulse convolution reverb with its surround positioning features. Unfortunately, by this time some power users were bemoaning Gigastudio's lack of support for 64-bit processors, dual processors and hyperthreading.Fast forward three and a half years to 2008, and the long-awaited Gigastudio 4 is finally here.
Surprisingly, it has just two new major features, plus various smaller additions and improvements. GS4 includes a 16GB collection of sampled instruments, including contributions from such names as Art Vista, Best Service, Digital Soundworks, Jim Corrigan, Larry Seyer Digital, Notre Dame de Budapest, Project SAM, SampleDaddy, Sampletekk, Sonivox Tascam, Wavelore, and Westgate Studios (you can download a detailed list at ).There's plenty of useful content here, sufficient to compose complete songs, and, for me, the most useful proved to be the Sonivox collection.
However, I do think it's a bit cheeky that some of this bundled content (the Art Vista Malmsjo GVI piano and SampleDaddy's Tokyo Seoul GVIs) comprises time-limited demos of full products.The other major addition to GS4 is VSTi support, so you can use it as a host for other virtual instruments, even including sample-playing competitors such as NI's Kontakt or Tascam's own GVI (Giga Virtual Instrument). Like standard Giga instruments, VST Instruments can also be easily stacked on a single MIDI channel to create more complex sounds.The Quicksound database is now a stand-alone utility with its own audition function.As mentioned above, the 64-bit GS4 will only currently load 64-bit VST Instruments, which are in extremely short supply. You will, however, be able to load GVI (Giga Virtual Instrument) libraries, since these are treated as sample content rather than instruments.The main improvement over running the same VST Instruments inside a sequencer is said to be lower latency, due to the kernel-level code that Gigastudio has featured from the start (and which has also made it rather particular about compatibility with some PC components). Another benefit of hosting VST Instruments in GS4 is being able to sprinkle on some of the excellent Gigapulse convolution reverb.This new hosting feature should appeal to musicians who use Gigastudio for live performance, because they can now play all their sample libraries and and virtual instruments from a single application. For those who rely on hardware sequencers for rock-solid timing, this also means being able to dispense with other software hosts/sequencers just to run non-Giga virtual instruments.
Do bear in mind for live use, though, that while most sequencers can implement automatic plug-in delay compensation by starting playback of tracks using them slightly earlier, GS4 will be a 'live' playback engine, so you'll probably want to avoid plug-ins with noticeable latency, such as (for instance) look-ahead limiters and phase-linear EQs. Supported 32-bit operating systems for GigaStudio 4 are Windows XP Home/Professional running Service Pack 2, and Vista 32-bit. Unless you're using Rewire to connect the GS4 audio outputs to another application such as Cubase or Nuendo, you'll also need an audio interface with any version of GSIF drivers. There is still no version of the software for Mac users, although the forthcoming Giga Virtual Instrument 4 will provide support for Mac OS X.Those interested in the greater system RAM support of 64-bit operating systems will need to be running Windows XP Professional x64 or Vista 64-bit. Since Rewire isn't yet available in a 64-bit version, they will need an audio interface with the extremely rare 64-bit GSIF drivers.Tascam also recommend an Intel Core Duo 1.86GHz to 2.66GHz or an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core 5800+ processors, plus 2GB of RAM and a dedicated 7200rpm hard drive for sample storage. Most musicians are now taking advantage of multi-core PCs to provide them with vastly increased processing power, with many running quad-core setups, and power users running octo-core machines featuring two quad-core CPUs. I was therefore disappointed to note that although GS4 will run on more powerful systems containing four or more cores, it will only be able to take advantage of two cores.This is what Tascam have to say on the subject: 'Gigastudio 4 supports multi-core processors, but because of the kernel-level engine the main part of the app runs on one core.
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Gigapulse, hosted VST plug-ins, etc, would run on other cores. So if you were choosing between a super-fast dual-core and a less speedy quad-core, the dual-core would probably get better performance.'
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