Don't let the Giga Continuous Velocity Piano get away

[Moseph]

Garritan has bought TASCAM's Giga line. They have not yet announced what they're going to do with the software, but the buyout means that the Giga Continuous Velocity Piano that TASCAM is giving away could disappear without advance notice sometime in the coming months. I hate to sound like an alarmist, but it's the best free piano VST that I know of, so if you don't have it, get it, and make a backup.

[Dj Mokram]

A bit harsh on resources for my old laptop, and I didn't use Asio either. But awesome nonetheless.

This sounds amazingly good for a free piano, and might really be the best one out there.

It's a must have, thanks for sharing.

[SenPi]

I downloaded it but when I try to install its all "You must have windows xp service pack 2 or better to install this" and I have service pack 3 :S I dont get whats wrong

[Zephyr]

To be honest, I've never really been a fan of this, it has weird key release noises which, while realistic are really annoying. I found an awesome soundfont or two in some random places and I've been using those and my libraries since.

[OverCoat]

I downloaded it but when I try to install its all "You must have windows xp service pack 2 or better to install this" and I have service pack 3 :S I dont get whats wrong

This right here is one reason why Tascam eats wheelbarrows full of balls and must sell their stuff to garritan

Hey tascam, god forbid we update things

unlike you

[Harmony]

To be honest, I've never really been a fan of this, it has weird key release noises which, while realistic are really annoying.

Bah! Thou shalt not speak against my favorite piano plugin.

To disable key damper noises:

1) From the midi mixer page, click the green edit button. This should take you to a page with 3 horizontal yellow bars. The lower left one represents the damper release sample trigger.

2) By default the sample is set to play when you release a key (as in a real piano). That's what the "RelTrig" stands for. Click on "RelTrig" and change it to some midi controller that you don't plan on using (say, (80) Gen. Purpose).

3) Now the horizontal bar should have a numerical value (between 0 and 127) displayed somewhere along it. Click the number and drag it left to zero.

To disable pedal damper noises:

1) By default the pedal samples are mapped to the D7 and D#7 keys and are triggered at random. Towards the bottom of the edit screen, set the "kbd select" mode to "individual regions"

2) Click on the tiny white (or yellow) rectangle just above the D7 key on the keyboard. If it wasn't yellow already, it should turn yellow to indicate you've selected it.

3) There are a number of ways to eliminate the sound, but the easiest is probably just to turn the volume down. With the D7 key selected, lower the volume knob towards the upper left of the screen to -inf. Repeat for the D#7 key.

Voila! No damper noises.

"You must have windows xp service pack 2 or better to install this" and I have service pack 3

Hmm, that sucks. Works for me in sp3, but I installed it when I had sp2. Guess the programmers got lazy when writing the install program compatibility checks :/

[sillythewilly]

Hey DJ SymBiotiX, I had the same problem as well. I got it working with the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit after googling around for answers.

I think this guy here has the answer you want.

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1674492&mpage=1&key=�

[SenPi]

ahh fixed. Thanks alot

[DZComposer]

Interesting move by Garritan. I would not have expected it.