Version 1.0.0 (2015-07-17) With this release we added support for new GigaStudio 4 features, for example there are now dialogs for editing some of the new so called "iMIDI rules". These can be used i.e. to trigger notes by MIDI CC and to define a set of legato samples. You may have heard that the GigaStudio software has seen its last version with GigaStudio 4. Tascam officially discontinued this product, its intellectual property has been sold several times among companies and there is currently no way to buy a new copy of GigaStudio anymore. However the GigaStudio format is still under active development with gigedit and LinuxSampler. For the first time ever we added our own extensions to the Giga format: one of it is major new feature called "real-time instrument scripts", which allows to bundle small programs with your .gig sounds, which extend the sampler with custom behavior for specific sounds. You may know such kind of instrument scripts from commercial software samplers. Find out more about this new feature on http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/. Another rather minor extension to the Giga format is support for various other MIDI CCs which were never supported by GigaStudio before. So you can now use any MIDI CC for EG1 controller, EG2 controller and attenuation controller. Obviously all those extensions will not work with any GigaStudio version, they only work with a recent version of Gigedit and LinuxSampler. Gigedit will inform you whenever you are using such kind of custom Giga format extension, so that you are always aware in case your changes are not cross/backward compatible with the GigaStudio software. A load of enhancements have been added to Gigedit in the last six years: Until now you were only able to edit either exactly one dimension region or all dimension regions simultaneously. With this release you may now hold the Ctrl button and select a specific set of dimension region zones in the dimension region selector area (on the very bottom of the Gigedit window) with your mouse. All synthesis parameters you then change, will all be applied to that precise set of dimension region zones. Also managing dimensions have been improved: previously to change the amount of zones of a dimension you had to delete and recreate the dimension. Which was not just inconvenient, but you also had to redefine your synthesis parameters from scratch. Now you can just open the dimension manager dialog and increase or decrease the amount of zones of a dimension with few clicks. Same applies to the dimension type: you may now simply open the dimension manager dialog and alter the type of a dimension with few clicks. When working on complex Giga sounds you certainly noticed that one could easily get confused about which samples are exactly used by which instrument or even whether a sample is actually used at all by any instrument or just left orphaned and wasting disk space. This was also due to the fact that the Giga format does not require unique names for samples. We have worked on resolving this usability issue. In the sample list view you can now read the amount of times a sample is referenced by instruments of your .gig file. If a sample is not used at all, then it will be shown in striking red color in the sample list view. You may also right click on a sample and select "Show references...", a new window appears on your screen which will show you where exactly that particular sample is used by, that is which by which instruments and by which regions of those instruments. Also the other way around has been addressed: when you now edit the synthesis parameters of a particular dimension region, you may now click on the new "<- Select Sample" button and Gigedit automatically selects and displays the respective sample in the samples list view, which you may then might rename to some more appropriate sample name, or you might check by which other instrument(s) that sample is used by, etc. You may now also remove the current sample reference from individual dimension regions (assigning a so called "NULL" sample) by clicking on the new "X" button next the sample reference field on the "Sample" tab of a dimension region; this allows you to define "silent cases", that is a case where no sample should be played at all, for example this is often used for very low velocity ranges of i.e. between 0 and 6. If you are working on .gig files with a large amount of Instruments, then you might also be glad to know that you can finally also re-order the instruments of a file by simply dragging the instruments around in the instruments list view. Another handy new feature for sound designers is the new "Combine" tool, which you can reach from the main menu. It allows you to select two ore more instruments (by holding down the Ctrl key while selecting with mouse click) from your currently open Giga file and combine those selected instruments to a new instrument. This way you may for example create stunning layered sounds, or you may create velocity splits, crossfade sounds by MIDI controller and much more, all with just a few clicks. This may sound like a trivial task, but if you have worked on this before, you certainly noticed that this was often a very time consuming and error prone task before, especially with complex individual sounds which had custom region ranges, custom velocity splits and much more exotic stuff to take care of. The combine tool handles all such cases for you automatically. Last but not least, the interaction of Gigedit with LinuxSampler (in so called "live mode") had been improved: When you click on the "Edit" button of a channel strip in QSampler or Fantasia, Gigedit will be launched with the respective instrument automatically being selected. Vice versa you may now also just select another instrument with Gigedit's instrument list view and LinuxSampler will automatically load and play that instrument on the respective sampler part for you. So no more need to switch between the Gigedit window and QSampler/Fantasia window all the time while working on your sounds. Version 0.2.0 (2009-07-31) When gigedit is running as a plugin in LinuxSampler the gigedit keyboard may now be used to trigger notes. The settings in the file properties window are now editable. A new function for replacing all samples is added. Otherwise this is mostly a bug fix release, and upgrading gigedit and libgig is strongly recommended, as previous versions had bugs that may cause edited gig files to be corrupted. Version 0.1.1 (2007-12-06) Parameter edits can now be applied to multiple regions and dimension regions simultaneously - three checkboxes were added that select if changes apply to all regions and/or all dimension regions. Version 0.1.0 (2007-10-15) Many fixes have been made to make sure that the gig files created by gigedit are working properly in LinuxSampler and GigaStudio. Gigedit can now be run as a LinuxSampler plugin, allowing live editing of loaded instruments. Sample loop parameters and instrument global properties can now be edited. 24 bit samples can be imported. A quick-start document has been added. Lots of other minor fixes and improvements have been done. Version 0.0.3 (2007-03-24) First version of gigedit. The program is renamed from gigview to gigedit as it is now an editor, not just a viewer. Basic support for both editing existing gig files and creating new ones from scratch is provided. Version 0.0.2 (2006-11-05) Quick fix for a thread initialization problem. Version 0.0.1 (2006-11-05) First version of gigview.