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Originally posted by LumenStudio
Does it import giga files? How do you like it? |
Yes, it does import Giga files. Some complex gigs dont work as well (e.g. Voices of the Apocolypse, the Vienna stuff).
I got very tired of the standalone sampler, i prefer integration and ease of workflow. Mind you, i hhave been a LONG time giga user (way back to version 1 of Gigasampler) ... i preached about Giga from the mountain tops, yet i became very disillusioned after Tascams aquisition. Not to mention, it is PC only, very cumbersome to get the audio into a sequencer for editing, and ... computers are much faster and stable than they use to be. So the advantages of Giga are no longer. And GS3 really offers nothing new. It has great features! but nothing that cant be attained from a concise workflow built around various programs.
Im very happy with Kontakt, i can run it on the PC's i built for Giga, can run it in Logic on my Mac. It offers great editing (within the app). The streaming is AS good as Giga (just recently it has come to parity with giga, and is not voice limited), it offers tons of traditional sampler features that giga never had, etc.
Sure, i may get GS3 (6months to a year after release, wait for the bugs to get squished). But after having Kontakt, i cant imagine going back to a standalone.
-Wolfie