Tascam GigaStudio - Manual (Page 99)

TASCAM GigaEditor 4 Manual 99
A note about large .gig files
Physically, Giga instrument files are limited to 2 GB in size, but Giga instruments can be much larger than
this because they can span multiple files. You don’t need to be concerned with the 2 GB limit when
working in the Editor, because when you save your work the Editor will automatically divide it into
multiple files as necessary. When Giga spans files in this way, the first file will have the usual .gig extension,
while subsequent files are given the extensions .gx01, .gx02, etc. All of the files in the set will have the same
name and reside in the same directory. For example, if you save a 5 GB instrument to a file called
“Violin.gig” you’ll normally find that the editor has created three files:
C:\MyGigs\Violin.gig
C:\MyGigs\Violin.gx01
C:\MyGigs\Violin.gx02
To open this file set, just open Violin.gig as you normally would. When you open Violin.gig, the
“extension” files will automatically be opened along with it.
The Save As dialog contains several options that control the creation of extension files:
Maximum file size.
Th is is the absolute maximum size, in megabytes, of any single output file. It applies
to the main .gig file and also to any extension files. Th e default is a shade under 2 GB, but you can enter a
lower value if you need to. For example, suppose you have a 1 GB instrument that you'd like to distribute
on a pair of CDs (because a 1 GB file is too large for a single CD). By entering a maximum file size of 500
MB or so, you can save your instrument as a pair of files, each small enough to fit on a CD.
You'll notice that the actual file sizes are usually a bit less than the maximum you specify. This is because
the file sizes are adjusted a bit to avoid splitting instruments or samples across file boundaries.