newbie question-how do I do this??

[coplinger]

I want to set it up so I can play wav files on my computer from a keyboard, each key triggering a different wav file. I have a trial edition of giga sampler, but can't figure out how to do it with that (hell, I can't seem to do anything with it!). I downloaded a trial version of mellosoft, but this one can't map different files to different keys. Does anyone know of some cheap software that will allow me to do this?

[James Argo]

Well, what is your soundcard anyway ? I don't know exactly but I've heard Giga is little picky about soundcard (eg. it must support GSIF driver, etc..) ? I'm not 100% sure about it. Anyway, if you use Creative's card, you can try Vienna Soundfont Studio 2.3 . It will allow you to transform sequenced wave file into soundfont file. And it's free Hope it helps.


Jaymz

[coplinger]

sound card is m-audio audiophile 2496. It does have the GSIF drivers. Giga seems to only want .gig files & I couldn't figure out how to convert wave files to .gig. I can't use Soundfonts unless I have a Creative card right?

[AlChuck]

...I couldn't figure out how to convert wave files to .gig

You can't "convert" WAV files to GIG files, they are different beasts. GIG files are made using WAVs as source material (source of the actual sound data you use) but also contain key assignments, envelopes, etc. You have to build a GIG file using some sort of authoring process; I'm sure there is documentation out there on how to do this.

I can't use Soundfonts unless I have a Creative card right?

Wrong. There are several softsynths that will play Sound Fonts (possibly including the Gigasampler stuff?). The two I know of are LiveSynth Pro http://www.livesynth.com/ and VSampler http://www.vsampler.com/english/index.html