Now you have gigedit running and can see something like the following screenshot. On the left you see an empty white field, on the right a set of tabbed dialogs and below all that some piano keys. At this early stage everything is disabled, except the topmost menu.

In the next paragraphs you will add a few samples and stuff to create a totally new GIG file. If you're interested in some technical background and help on the terms used here, refere to .

To start with a new file, we need a new file. Choose File New and the only thing changing is an entry Default Group on the previously white field on the left.

Now there's a lot more possible on the gui and lacking such a fine quickstart I had to figure it out myself: Right click somewhere in the gray area above the piano keys. There's a small gray band and you'll get the following popup menu (Says: Add, the red arrows mark the area's width where you can cause this popup to pop up):

If you click this action a small rectangle occurs and some of the input fields and sliders on the tab EG1 are enabled. By moving the curser above the rectangle's left and right border you can resize it and define the region's width, e.g. it's lowest and highest key. Now you have a region and all you need is a sample, to play when pressing the region's keys. Until the alpha version it was necessary to do it that way around instead of first adding a sample and then a region. It caused some additional dimensions to show up, which could not be removed.

Hopefully you have some WAV samples somewhere available on your computer. If not: get some from your microphone, the internet or a friend who knows, what a WAV is ;-). Select the entry Default Group on the left and right click it (or right click it twice, so that Add Sample(s) is enabled). And click Add Sample(s). Browse with the file chooser through your harddisk and select a wav sample. If you did so, your Default Group will look like this (maybe you need to open the tree like structure by clicking the triangle in front).

On the left you see the popup menu, the added sample below, on the right side the enabled input elements and below all that the piano key roll with a blueish rectangle from C2 to C3. The input field Sample says NULL. That means our region has no sample assigned. I tried to enter the sample's name, but that did not work. Drag and Drop is the key: Drag the added sample onto the input field Sample and the cursor changes. Drop it and you'll see the name inside the field.

Weeeee, no you can save your changes with Save As. When I wrote this quickstart the Save action did not show a file name dialog but an error. So save it and play with it. Load it into your sampler, perferrably LinuxSampler and hit the keys. But only in the region's range you'll here some noise...your sample. If it did not work: check your equipment, hard- and software, maybe use some tools like gigdump or gigextract to verify, that the sample(s) are inside the gig file and it's structure is correct. Otherwise join the LinuxSampler's mailing list ().