[Linuxsampler-devel] gig3 experiment

[Andreas P. <and...@sp...>]

Hello!

Don't know if anyone else already did this, but anyway...

I don't have GigaStudio 3, I have never tried it. But, I still got 
curious when I found some (huge) demo gig files for GS3 at:

http://www.ndb.hu/

How different would the file format be, and how hard would it be to make 
LinuxSampler to play the files? It turned out that the file format looks 
very similar. Some of the chunks have grown and there are a few new 
chunk types, but the overall structure is the same.

I ignored all new (and for me unknown) features and made some small 
changes to libgig, and - it worked! The offsets in the sample pool table 
are now 64 bits, supporting large files. I cheated and removed the upper 
half of the offsets. The samples are 24 bits. I cheated and removed the 
lower 8 bits. Looped or compressed samples are not supported, and 
probably a million other things, but I do have gig3 pipe organ sounds 
coming out of LS!

/Andreas