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the other audio files in your project, as well as that of your target delivery format.
Audio capture is buffered by the system to record as many as 64 audio tracks simul-
taneously. Some systems may benefit from additional buffering than the default 0.5
MB. This is dependant on your audio card’s total audio output stream capability.
An 8 channel audio card will be capable of 8 channel capture to
wave. The buffer size setting can be increased to compensate for
drop outs in the audio files captured, if you find it is necessary.
Synthesizer Engine Settings
Adjust master attenuation and dither (if necessary).
Master Attenuation sets an attenuation on the overall output of
the output master channels of the GigaStudio 3.0 DSP Station. With
extreme amounts of polyphony, the levels of a mix can become satu-
rated at the outputs. Therefore it may be necessary to apply a judicious
amount of attenuation to the master outputs. You should monitor
your sound card hardware mixer utility to see if you are overloading at
the outputs.
Dither should only be enabled if you reducing the bit rate output to
16. Most modern professional sound cards are 24-bit and will require
no dithering. If you do have dither enabled on a 24-bit sound card, the
sound quality can be degraded by the unnecessary dither.
Stacked Instruments
Stacked instruments are managed by MIDI bank select. With this setting, banks can
be defined as long as they are assigned a number that is greater than 127. The first 128
(0-127) banks are reserved for normal instrument assignments.
Apply or Cancel
Click Apply or OK to accept any changes you have made, or click Cancel to dismiss or
undo anything you are not sure of and you can begin again. Once you are done with the
Hardware and Synthesizer tabs, you are ready to run GigaStudio for the first time.
The other tabs of the GigaStudio Configuration Manager are covered in the remain-
der of this section. Please refer to them for more details as needed.