I have recently bought an Intel Core 2 Quad running on Windows XP and are about porting from my old configuration : Gigastudio 2.5 Scope/SP 4.0 on 3.01 GHz Pentium 4 on Windows XP
Unfortunately I experience (classical !) problems with the GS 2.5 (the Midi Ports are greyed out).
Does anyone know wether GS 2.5 is running on a quad core ?
Now that Gigastudio is dead I don´t want to upgrade from GS 2.5 to GS 4.
Gigasampler, GS 160 2.54 and GS3 Orchestra are single threaded apps.
GVI & GS 4.01 are optimised for multiple Cores.
I use GS 160 2.54 on a Scope DAW w/a P4 3.4EE w/ XP32 Home SP2.
I don't see how you could be getting Grayed out Ports just from the CPU upgrade.
I would advise getting Kontackt 3, or GVI to take advantage of your libraires.
K3 will convert gig. files w/ ease.
GVI will also convert them and make them 24bit gig. files and sound noticably better.
I have a rather large investment in Miraslav, SISS and VSL String libraries and plan on converting them to Kontackt 3 next year.
Until then, GS 160 2.54 is the perfect host as it has a better sound and better MIDI than K2.
Haven't heard Kontackt 3 yet but it's safe to assume it put the last nail in Giga's coffin.
I have GS3 Orchestra and GS 4.01, and I see no need for feeding a dead horse.
Tascam dropped the ball a while back and developers left for K2.
Turning GS 4.01 into a legacy product has pretty much thrown the few developers left under the Bus.
Hi Jimmy,
so you think gs 2.51 should work on a quad core ?
Do you mean with libraries also the gigastudio .gsp-files?
I´m using it heavily with diverse orchestral setups (also Miroslav Vitous, often one .gsp for just one song).
The manual conversion of all my gigastudio .gsp-files to kontakt 3 seems a lot of work to me.
Are there any kontakt3 standard conversion procedures for those files ?
Brotha' Man Kempfpe,
There's no sense dumping a working product regardless of what the " Pro's " use.
I still use Miraslav's georgeous strings and woodwinds and they sound so good it would be worth the work. A German developer who made my Horn section VSTi says that it's a simple process, so I tend to believe him.
I am not sure what settings in XP32 would help, but affinity choice in XP Pro I know does work. I have always had 2.54 on a P2/P3 and P4.
If affinity is available in XP Home 32bit I believe you would use it like the XP Pro and set the core to " 0 " for GS 2.54.
BTW, Giga still runs a couple shows down in Vegas where stabilty is paramount.
They have spent a fortune on redundant DAW's w/ 32 channel analog switchers, etc., and they never get used.
I have finally managed to get my Quad core, Scope/sp 4.0 Gigastudio 2.5 engine working.
The problem was an incompatibility between the newest M-Audio xp-driver and the firmware of my of M-Audio midisport 8x8/s USB interface . I just used an older driver-version and Gigastudio was running without problems.
Now I´m just comparing the Kontakt 3 vs. Gigastudio. My first impression is that GS has a far better usability the Kontakt-Sampler:
in GS, I have an overview over all the instruments (of one port) at a glance, whereas Kontakt shows only a small window of instruments and has a lot of knobs per instrument I will never use.
So GS fits much more better to my preferred style of working: I Use GS mainly for an orchestral accompainment where I upload my orchestral library e.g. Miroslav Vitous and spend most time with the arrangement and not with specific sound adoptions. I do not need any effects in the sampler because I´am routing the voices with 32 gsif-channels in Scope/SP where I apply any effect I need.
I wonder if there will be again a pure sampling product on the market, optimised for just simple streaming of samples.
