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9 <center><h1>libgig</h1></center>
10 <p>
11 libgig is a C++ library for loading, modifying existing and creating new
12 GigaStudio/Gigasampler (.gig) files and DLS (Downloadable Sounds) Level 1/2 files, KORG sample
13 based instruments (.KSF and .KMP files), SoundFont v2 (.sf2) files and AKAI sampler data.
14 The source code package includes a couple of command line tools based on the
15 library. The library and tools are released in source code format under the
16 <a href="https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>,
17 except the AKAI classes which are released under the
18 <a href="https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General Public License</a>.
19 </p>
20 <p>
21 This library is developed and optimized for POSIX compliant operating
22 systems like Linux and OSX and since release 3.1.1 for Windows as well.
23 libgig was developed to compile on any operating system. There are some
24 very few build requirements though:
25 <ul>
26 <li>
27 Since release 3.0.0 libgig uses one tiny operating system dependant method to
28 be able to resize files. Should be a 5 minute job to implement this method
29 for other operating systems as well though.
30 </li>
31 <li>
32 Since release 4.3.0, at least a C++11 compliant compiler is required to build
33 libgig from source.
34 </li>
35 <li>
36 Since release 4.3.0, an UUID generating function is required to be provided by
37 the underlying OS. In previous libgig versions this was an optional feature,
38 its absence only prevented gig files modified by libgig potentially from being
39 accepted by Tascam's GigaStudio. It dit not mean any restriction with LinuxSampler
40 though, this has changed in the meantime so this is now a hard build requirement.
41 </li>
42 </ul>
43 </p>
44
45 <a name="src"></a>
46 <h1>Source Code</h1>
47 <p>
48 <table border="1">
49 <TH>
50 <TR>
51 <TD>Version</TD>
52 <TD>File Name</TD>
53 <TD>File Size</TD>
54 <TD>Date</TD>
55 </TR>
56 </TH>
57 <tbody id="tar">
58 <tr>
59 <td>4.4.1</td>
60 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-4.4.1.tar.bz2">libgig-4.4.1.tar.bz2</a></td>
61 <td>576K</td>
62 <td>20-Feb-2024 17:32</td>
63 </tr>
64 <tr>
65 <td>4.4.0</td>
66 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-4.4.0.tar.bz2">libgig-4.4.0.tar.bz2</a></td>
67 <td>576K</td>
68 <td>26-Jan-2024 19:04</td>
69 </tr>
70 <tr>
71 <td>4.3.0</td>
72 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-4.3.0.tar.bz2">libgig-4.3.0.tar.bz2</a></td>
73 <td>744k</td>
74 <td>09-May-2021 12:56</td>
75 </tr>
76 <tr>
77 <td>4.2.0</td>
78 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-4.2.0.tar.bz2">libgig-4.2.0.tar.bz2</a></td>
79 <td>729k</td>
80 <td>25-Jul-2017 13:10</td>
81 </tr>
82 <tr>
83 <td>4.1.0</td>
84 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-4.1.0.tar.bz2">libgig-4.1.0.tar.bz2</a></td>
85 <td>526k</td>
86 <td>25-Nov-2017 13:52</td>
87 </tr>
88 <tr>
89 <td>4.0.0</td>
90 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-4.0.0.tar.bz2">libgig-4.0.0.tar.bz2</a></td>
91 <td>684k</td>
92 <td>14-Jul-2015 18:36</td>
93 </tr>
94 <tr>
95 <td>3.3.0</td>
96 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-3.3.0.tar.bz2">libgig-3.3.0.tar.bz2</a></td>
97 <td>330k</td>
98 <td>30-Jul-2009 10:35</td>
99 </tr>
100 <tr>
101 <td>3.2.1</td>
102 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-3.2.1.tar.bz2">libgig-3.2.1.tar.bz2</a></td>
103 <td>316k</td>
104 <td>05-Dec-2007 16:33</td>
105 </tr>
106 <tr>
107 <td>3.2.0</td>
108 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-3.2.0.tar.bz2">libgig-3.2.0.tar.bz2</a></td>
109 <td>329k</td>
110 <td>14-Oct-2007 16:52</td>
111 </tr>
112 <tr>
113 <td>3.1.1</td>
114 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-3.1.1.tar.bz2">libgig-3.1.1.tar.bz2</a></td>
115 <td>294k</td>
116 <td>24-Mar-2007 19:26</td>
117 </tr>
118 <tr>
119 <td>3.1.0</td>
120 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-3.1.0.tar.bz2">libgig-3.1.0.tar.bz2</a></td>
121 <td>294k</td>
122 <td>24-Nov-2006 14:03</td>
123 </tr>
124 <tr>
125 <td>3.0.0</td>
126 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-3.0.0.tar.bz2">libgig-3.0.0.tar.bz2</a></td>
127 <td>275k</td>
128 <td>28-Apr-2006 20:05</td>
129 </tr>
130 <tr>
131 <td>2.0.2</td>
132 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-2.0.2.tar.bz2">libgig-2.0.2.tar.bz2</a></td>
133 <td>255k</td>
134 <td>15-Aug-2005 19:34</td>
135 </tr>
136 <tr>
137 <td>2.0.1</td>
138 <td><a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-2.0.1.tar.bz2">libgig-2.0.1.tar.bz2</a></td>
139 <td>241k</td>
140 <td>13-June-2005 02:18</td>
141 </tr>
142 <tr>
143 <td>2.0.0</td>
144 <td><A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-2.0.0.tar.bz2">libgig-2.0.0.tar.bz2</A></td>
145 <td>61k</td>
146 <td>10-May-2005 12:08</td>
147 </tr>
148 <tr>
149 <td>1.0.0</td>
150 <td><A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-1.0.0.tar.bz2">libgig-1.0.0.tar.bz2</A></td>
151 <td>67k</td>
152 <td>26-Nov-2004 23:39</td>
153 </tr>
154 <tr>
155 <td>0.7.1</td>
156 <td><A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-0.7.1.tar.bz2">libgig-0.7.1.tar.bz2</A></td>
157 <td>56k</td>
158 <td>09-July-2004 00:13</td>
159 </tr>
160 <tr>
161 <td>0.7.0</td>
162 <td><A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-0.7.0.tar.bz2">libgig-0.7.0.tar.bz2</A></td>
163 <td>253k</td>
164 <td>03-May-2004 16:51</td>
165 </tr>
166 <tr>
167 <td>0.6.0</td>
168 <td><A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/libgig-0.6.0.tar.bz2">libgig-0.6.0.tar.bz2</A></td>
169 <td>336k</td>
170 <td>20-Dec-2003 05:41</td>
171 </tr>
172 </tbody>
173 </table>
174 <br>
175 See <a href="https://svn.linuxsampler.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/libgig/trunk/ChangeLog">
176 Changelog</a> for details.
177 </p>
178
179 <a name="binaries"></a>
180 <h1>Binary Packages</h1>
181 For <a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/win32/">Windows</a> you can find a precompiled DLL of libgig,
182 coming with the example command line tools as .exe files, packed into one
183 .zip file. For Linux there are currently <a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/debian/">Debian</a> packages
184 and <a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/rpms/">RPM</a> packages for Redhat / Fedora, SuSE and Mandrake.
185 Note that libgig is already part of many distributions. You might want to use
186 packages coming with your distribution instead.
187
188 <a name="tools"></a>
189 <h1>Tools</h1>
190 The libgig sources and the 'gigtools' Debian package contain the following command line tools:
191 <ul>
192 <li><b>gigextract</b> (Extracts samples from a .gig file)</li>
193 <li><b>gigdump</b> (Prints out the content of a .gig file)</li>
194 <li><b>gigmerge</b> (Merges several .gig files to one .gig file)</li>
195 <li><b>gig2mono</b> (Converts .gig files from stereo to mono)</li>
196 <li><b>gig2stereo</b> (Converts .gig files to true interleaved stereo sounds)</li>
197 <li><b>korgdump</b> (Prints out the content of the various KORG file types)</li>
198 <li><b>korg2gig</b> (Convert KORG sound file to Gigasampler/GigaStudio format)</li>
199 <li><b>sf2dump</b> (Prints out the content of a .sf2 file)</li>
200 <li><b>sf2extract</b> (Extracts audio samples from a .sf2 file)</li>
201 <li><b>akaidump</b> (Dump an AKAI media i.e. from a CDROM drive as disk image file
202 to your hard disk drive)</li>
203 <li><b>akaiextract</b> (Extracts samples from an Akai disk image, either from a media
204 i.e. CDROM or Zip drive, from a AKAI disk image file)</li>
205 <li><b>dlsdump</b> (Prints out the content of a DLS file)</li>
206 <li><b>rifftree</b> (Prints out the RIFF tree structure of an arbitrary RIFF file)</li>
207 </ul>
208
209 <a name="doc"></a>
210 <h1>Documentation</h1>
211 <p>
212 Online API Documentation for the latest libgig version (automatically updated to latest version from SVN)
213 (<a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/api/">HTML</a>)
214 </p>
215 <p>
216 Old kick start documentation for libgig (<a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/Introduction.sxw">OpenOffice</a>, <a href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/Introduction.pdf">PDF</a>)
217 </p>
218
219 <a name="examples"></a>
220 <h1>Examples</h1>
221 There are couple of example applications which demonstrate how to use the
222 library. Beside the mentioned <a href="#tools">tools</a> coming with the
223 source packages, there are also the following demo applications (only in
224 source code format):
225 <ul>
226 <li><a href="examples/gigwritedemo.cpp"><b>gigwritedemo.cpp</b></a> (demonstrates how to create and modify Gigasampler format files)</li>
227 <li><a href="examples/dlswritedemo.cpp"><b>dlswritedemo.cpp</b></a> (demonstrates how to create and modify DLS Level 1/2 files)</li>
228 <li><a href="examples/riffwritedemo.cpp"><b>riffwritedemo.cpp</b></a> (demonstrates how to create and modify RIFF files in general)</li>
229 </ul>
230
231 <a name="apps"></a>
232 <h1>Applications</h1>
233 <p>
234 Besides <a href="https://www.linuxsampler.org">LinuxSampler</a> and its
235 related programs (e.g. qsampler, gigedit), the following third party
236 applications are also using libgig to access Gigasampler format files:
237 <ul>
238 <li><a href="http://www.wikid.co.uk/capture/">Capture</a></li>
239 </ul>
240 You are also using libgig for your application? Please let me know!
241 </p>
242
243 <a name="diagrams"></a>
244 <h1>Diagrams</h1>
245 <p>
246 UML static structure diagram focused on the aspect of actually using the
247 library (created with <a href="http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm/">TCM</a>):
248 <table border="1">
249 <TH>
250 <TR>
251 <TD>Version</TD>
252 <TD>File Formats</TD>
253 <TD>Date</TD>
254 </TR>
255 </TH>
256 <tbody>
257 <tr>
258 <td>1.0.0</td>
259 <td>
260 <A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/libgig-1.0.0.ssd">TCM</A>,
261 <A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/libgig-1.0.0.pdf">PDF</A>,
262 <A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/libgig-1.0.0.ps">PostScript</A>
263 </td>
264 <td>26-Nov-2004 21:18</td>
265 </tr>
266 <tr>
267 <td>0.7.x</td>
268 <td>
269 <A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/libgig-0.7.0.ssd">TCM</A>,
270 <A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/libgig-0.7.0.pdf">PDF</A>,
271 <A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/libgig-0.7.0.ps">PostScript</A>
272 </td>
273 <td>03-May-2004 17:36</td>
274 </tr>
275 <tr>
276 <td>0.6.0</td>
277 <td>
278 <A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/libgig-0.6.0.ssd">TCM</A>,
279 <A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/libgig-0.6.0.pdf">PDF</A>,
280 <A href="https://download.linuxsampler.org/doc/libgig/libgig-0.6.0.ps">PostScript</A>
281 </td>
282 <td>20-Dec-2003 05:41</td>
283 </tr>
284 </tbody>
285 </table>
286 (Sorry, these UML diagrams are a bit outdated).
287 </p>
288
289 <a name="svn"></a>
290 <h1>Subversion</h1>
291 <p>
292 You can check out the latest development version of libgig from the
293 LinuxSampler Subversion server:
294 </p>
295 <p>
296 <table border="1">
297 <tbody>
298 <tr><TD>svn co https://svn.linuxsampler.org/svn/libgig/trunk libgig</TD></tr>
299 </tbody>
300 </table>
301 </p>
302 <p>
303 You can also <a href="https://svn.linuxsampler.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/libgig/trunk/">browse the libgig Subversion repository</a>.
304 </p>
305
306 <a name="author"></a>
307 <h1>Author</h1>
308 <p>This library was written by <a href="mailto:cuse@users.sf.net">Christian Schoenebeck</a>
309 (<a href="http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/gpg.asc">PGP/GPG Public Key</a>).
310 </p>
311
312 <a name="license"></a>
313 <h1>Licensing</h1>
314 <p>
315 libgig and its tools are released under the
316 <a href="https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>,
317 except the AKAI classes which are released under the
318 <a href="https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General Public License</a>
319 </p>
320
321 <a name="contact"></a>
322 <h1>Contact</h1>
323 <p>You can either send emails to the
324 <a href="mailto:linuxsampler-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">LinuxSampler Developers Mailing List</a>
325 or contact <a href="mailto:cuse@users.sf.net">me</a> directly.
326 </p>
327
328 <p>
329 Happy hacking!<br>
330 Christian
331 </p>
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