.gig files and how to use them
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:35 pm
Hi all,
I'm a developer / tech guy with limited knowledge on music. A friend of mine, who is not techy at all but more into music creation, told me they have old '.gig' files they'd want to use and - well - make music with.
So my problem is a bit of a double whammy: I'm trying to understand software for a field I'm not entirely knowledgable about, and I need to explain it to someone who doesn't really understand computers the way I do.
So the basic thing I'm trying to do is just to get sound out of a Windows machine. Let's start with -any- sound and go from there.
So here's what I did up till now:
- I installed linuxsampler via https://download.linuxsampler.org/packa ... _setup.exe
- I started QSampler and downloaded a random .gig file, just to be able to test.
- I realized there were no audio devices, so I searched and found https://www.asio4all.org/ which at least seemed to give me something to work with.
However, I do not know where to go from here. I don't have any MIDI devices (My friend probably does, but I want to give them a complete package so at least I pretend to know what I'm doing) and I'm not sure how to use either QSampler or GIGEdit.
So, erm, basically: Can someone explain the basics to me, so I can explain the confusing bits to my friend?
Thanks in advance,
Gemberkoekje.
I'm a developer / tech guy with limited knowledge on music. A friend of mine, who is not techy at all but more into music creation, told me they have old '.gig' files they'd want to use and - well - make music with.
So my problem is a bit of a double whammy: I'm trying to understand software for a field I'm not entirely knowledgable about, and I need to explain it to someone who doesn't really understand computers the way I do.
So the basic thing I'm trying to do is just to get sound out of a Windows machine. Let's start with -any- sound and go from there.
So here's what I did up till now:
- I installed linuxsampler via https://download.linuxsampler.org/packa ... _setup.exe
- I started QSampler and downloaded a random .gig file, just to be able to test.
- I realized there were no audio devices, so I searched and found https://www.asio4all.org/ which at least seemed to give me something to work with.
However, I do not know where to go from here. I don't have any MIDI devices (My friend probably does, but I want to give them a complete package so at least I pretend to know what I'm doing) and I'm not sure how to use either QSampler or GIGEdit.
So, erm, basically: Can someone explain the basics to me, so I can explain the confusing bits to my friend?
Thanks in advance,
Gemberkoekje.