Tascam GigaStudio to Korg Triton 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 Triton can only handle 96mb maximum, 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 96mb space. (This number can be changed in Options-Sample Sample Mapping, but not over 96mb in the Triton'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 A-B-C-D Parameter
Giga has the under-used "A-B-C-D" parameter - this is a function where

• A=start of ramp from zero
• B=start of 100% scale
• C=end of 100% scale and start of ramp down to zero
• D=end of ramp to 0

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 Triton- no, it doesn't have this. 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.