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Installing Gigasampler :
1) Unzip and run "gigsetup.exe"
2) Select 'custom install'
3) When you get to 'Select Sounds' *MAKE SURE* you deselect ALL the sounds
   (ie. Analogue_filter_sawtooth, Analogue_Filter_Square, etc)
4) Enter anything for name and company
5) After setup completes, you can delete all temporary files in c:\tempgiga


Hurrah to Deepz0ne! :)
A huge thanks to DjSonic, Zenta, Audio, Taurus, Hypermann, Yazz, Flex,
Stephan, AFH, ShadwD37, Level288, and f16fly. many greetings to Siege.

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giga mini-faq
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1) Gigasampler does not work under Windows 98 (ANY version). Nemesys are quoting
a 8-12 week wait for the upgrade currently. Nor does gigasampler work under any
version of NT.  (check  http://www.nemesystech.com/news_frame.html)

2) Gigasampler is *very* system and setup senstive so dont be surprised if it
doesnt work with your configuration. Various Graphic card and sound card
combinations were found to trip it up. 

3) The minimum specs it requires are astonishing at times.. 2 gig hard drive
space for example. (Though this turns out not to be essential but when you
have a snare sample that comes with Giga and its 38 meg in size... you soon
understand why!)

4) Gigasampler does not like some DirectX setups. (For example DirectX6 Beta/RC1)
If you have DirectX 6 beta installed you may need to uninstall it.

5) Gigasampler uses DirectSound for its sound output. Nemesys are, however, going
to release better, high speed drivers for specific sound cards in the future. 

6) Normally, Gigasampler will NOT work with any non-mmx cpus however, Deepz0ne
has also cracked the setup to work on non-mmx computers. (all the ones we tried)

8) There have been problems noted with certain display configurations.. Namely
800*600 and trying to run other appz in this rez in the background. You should
also update your video card drivers. A Diamond Steath Viper for instance will
fail when using old drivers.


The official nemesys Gigasampler FAQ can be found at :
http://www.nemesystech.com/faq_frame.html

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Review by Zenta :
The much hyped Gigasampler has finally arrived. I had expected it to fail to live
up to most of the pre-release hype, but it really is not bad at all. Very little
latency using 64 voices polyphonically on a P233 MMX with 128 Mb, AWE 64, Matrox
Mystique and 83mhz bus speed. The overall sound is of a very high quality and
everything seems to work as it should. The editor is quite easy to use and it has
a few nice surprises hidden inside of it like, for example, the ability to
automatically convert AKAI sample CDs on the fly. 

