Version 1.3.0 (2026-08-05) This new feature release is all about usability improvements, most of them of visual nature. One of the most important features of this new release is multi-region selection: By either Ctrl-clicking or Shift-clicking you can now select (or unselect) multiple regions, such that you can change sound parameters of specific regions simultaniously while working with the editors right-hand side parameters pane. The ironic thing here is that we already had multi-selection for dimension regions for a very long time, exact in the same way by ctrl/shift-clicking individual dimension regions (a.k.a. "cases") from the editor's dimension region pane on the lower section of the editor (just below the virtual keyboard). But for some reason we had never extended this multi-selection concept to the regions level, except that we had the "all regions" checkbox basically from the beginning of course. You can naturally also combine multi-region selection with multi-dimension-region selection, like say you only wanted to change parameters of these certain regions, and of those regions only those specific dimension regions. This is not limited to mouse operations, there are also keyboard accelerators for all these multi-selection operations which you can all find listed from the app's "Edit" menu. The next important new feature(s) in this release help you not getting lost with complex .gig sounds by handling so called "alternative values": the challenge with the Giga format has always been its potential massive amount of so called "cases", that is the sheer amount of different sound parameters for different situations. Because in the end, the sound editor can only show you for each sound parameter only exactly one value at a time, right? So what is that sound parameter value that you currently see on the right-hand side of the editor? Because remember, the editor allows multi-selection? The answer is, the editor was always just showing you exactly the one and only parameter value of the so called "primary selection" exclusively, that is exactly the case that is highlighed in all-blue (whereas the other selected "cases" are marked in blue-hatched pattern). So this restriction also applies when there are multi-selected regions / dimension regions; they would also always be limited to show the parameter value of exactly ONE "case" (or ONE dimension region if you will). But here is the catch: all other currently selected regions and selected dimension regions might have different values for the respective sound parameter. So the only way to find out was going through all of them manually by selecting each one of those regions and dimension regions individually and see if the parameter value displayed would change. Let's just stop this nonsense: as soon as you have multi-selection applied, the editor is now highlighting all sound parameters that have multiple different values ("alternative values") in bronze coloured and bold font, based on the current multi-selection of regions / dimension regions that is. When you then move the mouse pointer over a highlighted parameter, it then now also shows you their specific, alternative parameter values, however not in the parameter entry box, but instead directly within the zones (or cells) of the respective dimension regions on the lower section of the screen, and additionally in compact coloured form on the region cells (that is on a higher structural level). This approach has the advantage that you not only see the raw parameter values alone, but also to which dimension regions (and their parent regions) those are currently assigned to exactly, such that you can immediately see their assigned locations as well. And as all sound parameters are distributed over a number of tabs in Gigedit, the respective tab itself is highlighed in bronze and bold as well if any of the tab's parameters is highlighted in turn, which further improves keeping oversight, since only one tab can be displayed at a time. Hopefully these new features make working on even the most complex instruments in the Giga format much more intuitive from now on. The next important new feature is the "prelisten" feature: so far we have just talked about parameters. But what about samples? A complex Giga instrument not only has a massive amount of parameters, it typically also has a massive amount of samples. The previously introduced new features described above could help you with understanding complex multi-samples as well, in the sense that you can for instance go to the "Sample" tab on the right-hand side, move the mouse pointer over the "Sample" field, and then see which sample names are displayed in the individual dimension region cells below (and on the regions above). You can do the same by moving the mouse pointer over the sample group field by the way. However these are just names of the samples and their groups. For a musician it is more important though, how do they actually sound, which is often not obvious by just reading a name. This is where the new "prelisten" features comes to play (literally): on the "Sample" tab you now have a simple and probably self-explantory play button. So while clicking and holding the play button, this specific sample is played, and stopped as soon as you release the mouse button again. However there is more: by Alt-clicking a dimension region on the lower section of the screen, you can now also play their specific sample directly (without changing selection) which allows you to understand very quickly how the instrument is comprised of with different samples. It is important to understand that this is really just playing this one specific sample, not multiple samples. This is therefore especially useful for multi-layer combi sounds, where you otherwise would have no easy way to understand how the sound is comprised of with individual samples. Because for velocity splits you could also trigger the right note with the right velocity to simulate the respecitve "case", but with a multi-layered sound there was no conventional way to just get one isolated sample of a multi-layer being played alone. Configurable UI theme: In the previous maintenance releases of Gigedit there were numerous visual fixes when running Gigedit on a system with "dark mode" enabled. This release goes a bit further and allows you to override not only whether you want Gigedit to appear in dark or bright mode (independent of what is globally configured on your system), but also to override the theme to be used by Gigedit. Those two apperance settings can be configured via the two new submenus "View" -> "Colors" and "View" -> "Theme" respectively. Follow subwindows: There is another new submenu for configuring visual behaviour: "View" -> "Subwindows follow Main Window", if enabled then all Gigedit child windows will automatically follow Gigedit's main window when Gigedit's main window is being moved around on screen. That is the child windows would automatically retain their relative position to Gigedit's main window. New "Referenced" column in "Scripts" tree view: on the left-hand side of Gigedit there are 3 tabs: "Samples", "Instruments" and "Scripts". The "Scripts" tree view now shows a "Referenced" column for each script, this number reflects how often that particular script is referenced by some instrument. That way you can for instance easily see if a script is currently not, or barely used. The NKSP instrument script editor received configurabale diagnostics: As you might know, while typing new code into the NKSP code editor, all issues are automatically highlighted in real-time. What's new is that when you move the mouse pointer over some highlighed code issue, you can now also see the issue type category in squared brackets, along to the already existing detailed issue description of the tooltip. From the editor's new "Diagnostics" menu you can then configure how the sampler's parser shall handle those individual issue categories. You can configure warnings to be entirely ignored (in which case they are no longer highlighted in the code editor). The sampler's API also supports the opposite by allowing to promote warnings to errors, however this is currently not supported by the Gigedit UI. These diagnostic settings are currently saved as user preference for all your .gig files you are working on. Furthermore, on the code editor's left hand side, issues are now visually prominently marked in red color for errors and yellow for warnings respectively, so that you can more easily spot any kind of issues while scrolling a long instrument script, as this is more easy to perceive for the eye than having to spot these issues directly in the code section alone. Auto highlighting selected NKSP code: another minor but actually quite useful feature in the NKSP editor is that wen you select a code portion (e.g. a variable or a function), all other occurences of the same text string are now automatically highlighted as well. This is very useful for instance to quickly spot all code locations where a certain variable is currently used, or seeing all callers of a certain function. These were only the most note-worthy new features in this release. For a complete list of all new features and bug fixes, please refer to the ChangeLog file. Version 1.2.4 (2025-12-17) Maintenance release. Fixes a few issues, foremost visibility issues when running the app with Dark Mode enabled. Refer to ChangeLog for other fixes. Version 1.2.3 (2025-11-07) Maintenance release which fixes issues on sample import (i.e. after adding new samples to a gig file and then saving the file). Only one minor new feature: the sample tab now provides a name search filter field. Version 1.2.2 (2025-06-02) Maintenance release with some fixes and code updates to latest libgig C++ API. Version 1.2.1 (2024-01-26) This is a maintenance release with some fixes. Most changes are about adopting to libgig 4.4.0 API changes, which in turn fix various multi-threading issues. Version 1.2.0 (2021-05-09) This release provides various new features and as always of course also numerous fixes. A C++11 compliant compiler is now at least required to build Gigedit from source. The real-time instrument script editor supports now syntax highlighting for LinuxSampler's new standard measuring units (kHz, c, ms, dB, etc.) feature for the NKSP script language. On the right hand side of Gigedit (the main working area actually) there is now a new tab "Script" which reveals a list of so called NKSP "patch" variables, which are variables published by instrument script authors to be directly accessible from the instrument editor and allows to override the values of certain instrument script variables on a per instrument basis in order to fine tune certains aspects of a script for individual instruments. Latest LinuxSampler 2.2.0 added various gig format extensions which are now available on Gigedit side as well: for instance for LFOs you can select from multiple wave forms (sine, triangle, square and saw) and you can fine tune the start phase of each LFO. To make it more intuitive the resulting LFO wave is drawn as preview on screen according to the chosen LFO parameters. Another gig format extension by latest LinuxSampler are new filter types which can be chosen from (along to the already existing filter types which will continue to co-exist): lowpass 1/2/4/6-pole, highpass 1/2/4/6-pole, bandpass 2-pole and bandreject 2-pole. A new dialog has been added to access the meta info of individual samples, similar to the meta info dialog that already existed for individual instruments. Gain can now be set to any arbitary value between -96 dB .. +96 dB. Previously it was only possible to set gain to max. 0 dB and there was a checkbox which allowed a hard coded boost to exactly +6 dB. The previous appearance replicated the appearance of GigaStudio's original instrument editor. The previous limitation of having just a single possible value for positive gain was unfortunate, but as it turned out this was actually not a limitation of the original gig file format. And in fact we have not added any gig file format extension for this reason to achieve this new freedom of arbitrary gain settings. So setting a positive gain of e.g. let's say +1.45 dB does not break compatibility of your sounds with GigaStudio. And last but not least various minor convenience functions have been added, for instance the default double click behaviour on instruments (which would open their meta info dialog) can now optionally be disabled, window size, position and vertical spliter position are now auto saved and restored among Gigedit sessions and the up/down buttons' steps have been individually adjusted to make more sense for the individual synthesis parameters they control. And regarding the latter: remember that the up/down steppers do actually have two distinct operations per button: a regular left-mouse click for small changes and middle-mouse click for larger changes. Both have been adjusted appropriately for the individual synthesis parameters they control. Version 1.1.1 (2019-07-27) This is a maintenance release with numerous fixes and the following few new features: From the file properties dialog you can now choose to specifically save a gig file in GigaStudio v4 file format (from the main menu select "File" -> "Properties" -> "File Format"). So you can override the file format version of already existing gig files that way. There is now a combo box and checkbox on "Misc" tab which allow to define when precisely release trigger samples shall be played. This is an extension of the original gig file format. You have the option to play release trigger samples only on note-off events (which is now the default behaviour in the latest release version of LinuxSampler), or only on sustain pedal up events, or both on note-off events and on sustain pedal up events. These are options on dimension region level, so you can override this behaviour even for individual cases, not just for the entire instrument. When working on gig files with more than one real-time instrument script per file, it was sometimes a bit tedious to keep track of which instrument was using which script exactly, because it involved a right-click on the individual instrument to get to the script slots dialog of the instrument, which finally listed the scripts being used. You no longer have to do that just to check which scripts are being used: Just hover your mouse over the "Scripts" column of the instruments table on the left hand side of gigedit; a coloured popup will appear with the list of scripts currently being assigned to the instrument. Likewise it is a very common task to remove all scripts from an instrument. There is now a keyboard shortcut for that: Just select the instrument from the instruments list and then hit Shift + Backspace. Gigedit provides a large number of tooltips when you are hovering your mouse over the huge amount of individual controls and menu items the application is offering in the meantime. In case you find that annoying, you can now disable those particular tooltips which are specifically intended for beginners from the main menu by unchecking "View" -> "Tooltips for Beginners". All other tooltips that are still useful for daily work with gigedit are still being shown when this option is unchecked. The previous release of gigedit introduced "Macros" for quickly performing frequently used sequences of editor actions, and you were able to assign your macros to keyboard function keys F1 .. F12. In this release you can now also assign macros to function keys up to F19, in case you own one of those keyboards with such a large amount of function keys. Version 1.1.0 (2017-11-25) This release adds various improvements for the NKSP real-time instrument script editor of gigedit. LinuxSampler's NKSP script editor API is now used by gigedit to visualize all issues of scripts (errors and warnings) in real-time while you are typing with the script editor. The respective locations of script errors / warnings are automatically highlighted in red and yellow color respectively and when the mouse pointer is moved over those code locations, then the precise error / warning message is displayed as tooltip. And since gigedit's script editor is now tightly coupled with the sampler's script engine this way, all the heavy work of handling all aspects of the script language is now performed by the actual sampler's script engine and thus you can now be sure and immediately see whether there are any issues with your scripts with any character you are typing, and if yes what kind of issues exactly, and that without requiring to actually load the script into the sampler. To use these features, gigedit must be compiled and linked against liblinuxsampler. If gigedit is not compiled with liblinuxsampler support then the old hand written, error prone and very feature limited script editor implementation is used instead. Needless to say that compiling gigedit without liblinuxsampler support is discouraged. Additionally when clicking on the script editor's "Apply" button or using Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut, then the script is automatically reloaded by the sampler. So you no longer have to reload the respective instrument manually while you are developing instrument scripts. There are also visual enhancements for the script editor, for example the line numbers are now shown on the left, the font size can be altered by the user, and unused code portions (i.e. disabled by NKSP preprocessor statements) are automatically striked through. Another major new feature in this release are macros. A macro is a set of changes that should be applied to currently selected instrument. Such macros can be reviewed and edited, and they can be saved permanently for example as templates for common instrument creation tasks. Macros can be assigned to F keys on the keyboard so that they can be quickly triggered, you can transfer them over the OS clipboard and you can write comments to your macros so that you never forget what kind of purpose you had in mind for them. The macro features are based on libgig's new "Serialization" framework and accordingly you need at least libgig 4.1.0 for using these macro features. All user settings of gigedit are now persistently saved and automatically restored. This also includes gigedit's windows' dimensions and positions. Multi-row selection has been added to all list views now, so you can now more efficiently apply actions to multiple samples, instruments or scripts simultaneously at once, instead of requesting those actions for each item individually. Also modifying key features of several dimension region zones simultaneously is now supported. That means you can now delete, split and resize multiple dimension region zones at once. You will also note that there are now icons displayed on the individual regions and dimension region zones. Those icons visualize common key features of regions and dimension region zones. For example if you forgot to assign any sample to one of them, then you will see a red dot on the respective region or dimension region zone. Another icon type is showing you whether a region or dimension region zone uses a sample loop. This way you can immediately see and control the key features of all regions and their dimension region zones, without requiring to browse through all of them individually. Various new keyboard shortcuts have been added so you can work more efficiently on your sounds. For example you can now use Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right to navigate through all regions of the currently selected instrument, and likewise you can use Alt+Left, Alt+Right, Alt+Up and Alt+Down to navigate through all dimension region zones of the currently selected region. Since there are many actions that can be either applied on instrument level, or on region level, or on dimension region level, as a general rule, for all keyboard shortcuts the Alt key is used by gigedit for actions on dimension region level, whereas the Ctrl key is used on region level and the Shift key is used for actions on instrument level. So as another example you may copy all parameters of the currently selected dimension region zone by hitting Alt+C, then you might select another dimension region zone, or another instrument and then use Alt+V to apply the parameters from the clipboard. While the parameters are (as macro actually) on the clipboard you can also review, edit and delete the individual parameters before applying them. As a final example for new important shortcuts you may now use Shift+Up and Shift+Down for switching between instruments. Also the Combine Tool has been improved. You can now simply select the (multiple) instruments you want to combine directly from the applications main window, i.e. by Ctrl or Shift clicking them from the instruments list view, and then right click to call the combine tool on that selection. The Combine Tool now also shows you as preview the order in which the selected instruments are going to be combined. This is especially useful when combining instruments with certain dimension types where the order matters for the actual resulting sound; for example when using the velocity dimension. Simply use drag n drop to reorder the previously selected instruments before combining. Since LinuxSampler 2.1.0 added a Giga format extension which allows to control the envelope generators' state machines more precisely; new options have been added to gigedit to control these new EG features. For example there are new check box which you can use to define for each envelope whether the individual EG stages should still be completed or rather aborted if a note-off was received. These new EG settings matter a lot for certain instrument types like percussive instruments. And last but not least a filter option field had been added to the instruments list and samples list, which allows you to find specific samples and instruments very quickly by typing search key words, which is especially very helpful in case you are working on gig files which contain a very large amount of samples or instruments in a single gig file. 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.