GigaStudio 3 Installation and Use: QuickStart Guide - 4.37 - Tascam

LOADING INSTRUMENTS
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4 The
QuickSound loader is a fast way to locate Instruments
(thanks to a search function), as well as load and audition
them. There are three main views:
˘ The Folder Tree acts like Windows’ explorer. It shows the
various drives available on your computer. You can search for
GigaStudio fi les throughout the computer, or limit searching
to particular drives or folders.
˘ The Instrument List view shows which instruments were
found with GigaStudio’s search function. For example, if you
decide to look for fi les with the name “Piano” and do a search,
all instruments containing “Piano” are listed here. Or, you
could search for all GigaStudio Instrument fi les with a .gig
suffi x.
˘ The Loaded Instrument view shows information on
instruments that are currently loaded into GigaStudio.
Toward the top, a Toolbar accesses various QuickSound
functions. For example, note the lines above going from the
Folder Tree, Instrument List view, and Loaded Instrument.
These indicate show/hide icons for each of these views.
There’s also a resize bar so you can change the size of the
QuickSound window.
5 The Virtual Keyboard lets you trigger notes for the various
instruments, without the need for an external MIDI keyboard.
The four buttons at the left and right sides are (from top to
bottom) zoom in, zoom out, scroll keyboard right, and scroll
keyboard left. The slider toward the left sets a default velocity
value for when you click on a key. Various status indicators
run along the bottom.