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Gigastudio dropped by Tascam, get me the razor blades
OK well maybe not the razor blades for real. But this announcement today has left me with a hole in my gut (and quite a gut it is!). My studio is completely based on GigaStudio 3 and 4, I spent significant money recently building xp 64 bit systems to run GS4 64-bit version, which ALMOST works... so so close but some features are too screwy to make GS4 viable for production use (like channels changing and when you change them back you get BSOD....) but its so so close and I have been checking EVERY DAY on Tascam site for GS 4.02 release that fixes these issues...... and now the big baseball bat to the groin - Tascam is dropping the full GigaStudio product line.
The thing that kills me is that its always been an AMAZING product that never had enough devs to really release it properly. And the Tascam customer service has been one of the worst - really I mean WORST - experiences over the last 5 or so years of any company of any nature in the world I have ever dealt with. Both problems a direct result of the bean counters at Tascam not putting money into it to have the bugs fixed and the right people support it. And that is because they weren't creative enough to think of ways to leverage their product that could bring in the revenue they needed to grow it properly. POOR MANAGEMENT!
Anyhow, while I also have Kontakt, I like the sound quality and features of Gigastudio MUCH more, plus my mixes live from the included GigaPulse convolution reverb in GS3 and 4. And also the mainstay of my sample libraries is the VSL Full Pro edition which is all GS 3 format (much of that tricky scripting won't translate to kontakt so I hear, especially performance set stuffs). I would LOVE to be able to afford the full upgrade path to vienna instruments, but that is like $15,000 and its not on my list for the moment. I did upgrade to the Vienna Instruments Special Edition extended, which is really nice and all, but its only the most basic articulations.
Some talk is being made of open source GigaStudio. There already is the LinuxSampler open source sampler, which is really cool but its like only as far advanced as GS3 and doesnt support some things like .art articulation files. So there is now a petition being put together by I think Mark Belbin to ask for the source code to GigaStudio and to have it become an open source project. Personally I doubt that will happen because some of the components that make up GigaStudio were licensed from 3rd parties. But it might happen, which if it did would be totally cool! Either way I think its a cool petition to sign and I highly suggest you all to do it too, it takes literally 15 seconds. Just go to:
http://www.opengigastudio.com
and then click the text saying "Click this link to sign petition" and then add a post on the blog there. You can post as much or little as you like just include that you support Open GigaStudio
The thing that kills me is that its always been an AMAZING product that never had enough devs to really release it properly. And the Tascam customer service has been one of the worst - really I mean WORST - experiences over the last 5 or so years of any company of any nature in the world I have ever dealt with. Both problems a direct result of the bean counters at Tascam not putting money into it to have the bugs fixed and the right people support it. And that is because they weren't creative enough to think of ways to leverage their product that could bring in the revenue they needed to grow it properly. POOR MANAGEMENT!
Anyhow, while I also have Kontakt, I like the sound quality and features of Gigastudio MUCH more, plus my mixes live from the included GigaPulse convolution reverb in GS3 and 4. And also the mainstay of my sample libraries is the VSL Full Pro edition which is all GS 3 format (much of that tricky scripting won't translate to kontakt so I hear, especially performance set stuffs). I would LOVE to be able to afford the full upgrade path to vienna instruments, but that is like $15,000 and its not on my list for the moment. I did upgrade to the Vienna Instruments Special Edition extended, which is really nice and all, but its only the most basic articulations.
Some talk is being made of open source GigaStudio. There already is the LinuxSampler open source sampler, which is really cool but its like only as far advanced as GS3 and doesnt support some things like .art articulation files. So there is now a petition being put together by I think Mark Belbin to ask for the source code to GigaStudio and to have it become an open source project. Personally I doubt that will happen because some of the components that make up GigaStudio were licensed from 3rd parties. But it might happen, which if it did would be totally cool! Either way I think its a cool petition to sign and I highly suggest you all to do it too, it takes literally 15 seconds. Just go to:
http://www.opengigastudio.com
and then click the text saying "Click this link to sign petition" and then add a post on the blog there. You can post as much or little as you like just include that you support Open GigaStudio
Tags: business, discontinued, gigasampler, gigastudio, gs4, gvi, of, out, tascam
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Ray Kemp on -
eggs and baskets Chris?
Alright swear at me if you like as I go down the EW play engine route
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Permalink Reply by Chris Alpiar on
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well EW play is fine but their orchestral stuff is mediocre compared to VSL, but thats why its 1k instead of 20k
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Permalink Reply by Ray Kemp on
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I'm sure I could get a mediocre sound out of VSL :-) but I know what you're saying.
NI will rule the sampler world regardless of the quality of the other in-house players.
SONiVOX bringing out their own sample player must have been the last straw for Tascam.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Marshall on -
Signed.Sealed .Delivered. You should have known I would sign it :)
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Permalink Reply by Franco Talamo on -
Tascam only reveals a big lack of consideration for those who have spent money on Gigastudio and related products. I totally agree with that petition and I've signed it !
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Permalink Reply by Robert Throckmorton on
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I just signed it too. I came really close to buying GS4. I'm floored they made this decision and I feel really bad for you Chris or anyone else who has so much invested in that kind of setup. It's truly maddening these days how companies continue to ship things that don't work, and then never get fixed in patches, cause they are too busy to ship the next thing that isn't going to work right.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Drago
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I have used Gigasampler, Gigastudio 160, Gigastudio 3 and Gigastudio 4. I recently took the plunge and purchased Vista 64 and reloaded Gigastudio 4. It's faster and smoother but I haven't tested it all the way through.
I am looking for a community to give and get support and perhaps the new owners will do something with this.
Thanks
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