Tascam GigaStudio to Roland MV-8000 Translation

Giga Files and Instruments have several properties which make them a little more difficult to translate into other formats.

Large Size
Although not all .gig files are large, some are. The MV can only handle 128mb maximum at a time, and some .gig files are larger than this. Giga files can be this large because Giga's main feature is streaming from disk, thus most libraries that are created throw looping by the wayside and simply make their Instrument large.

Translator deals with this by truncating proportionally each sample in a Giga file, if needed, in order for it to fit in a 128mb space. (This number can be changed in Options-Sample Sample Mapping, but not over 128mb in the MV's case.) If a loop carries over in a truncated space, the loop is turned off. Translator has a sophisticated algorithm that truncates the samples, preserving the smaller ones and placing the truncation burden on the larger ones. The algorithm also looks ahead and if any "dimensions" will be ignored, it simply deletes the samples and relieves some of the burden that way.

The MV doesn't do not support either feature, so if Translator comes across either of these refrences, they are ignored.

The A-B-C-D Parameter
Giga has the under-used "A-B-C-D" parameter - this is a function where

Typically this is a modulation parameter where parameters A through D are incrementing figures between 0 and 127.

Giga is not the only format that has this - again, Ensoniq had it in 1988, and Emu and Roland use them also.

The MV supports this only in the context of Velocity and Mod wheel. Otherwise, this parameter is simply ignored; it's not the optimum solution, but it's the only one, since generally you don't want to ignore the sample reference.

Compression
Some Giga libraries are compressed. Translator completely supports the decompression of these waves, so this is not an issue in Translator.

Otherwise, Giga is a pretty normal format.