GigaStudio is flying right over my head.. help!

[MDesigner]

GigaStudio24 came w/ my sound card, so I\'m messing with it now. I can\'t even get a simple instrument to play.. the NemeSys MegaPiano. I click on the virtual keyboard.. nothing. The instrument is loaded into channel 1.

Also, I grabbed the Schimmel Piano from www.realprosounds.com (\"http://www.realprosounds.com\") and put that in the C:\\Gigs folder. It won\'t show up in the instrument list in GigaStudio. I rebuilt the sample list too. Why won\'t it show up?

If anyone could tell me how to get GS24 working w/ Sonar, I\'d appreciate it. The help is very sparse, and I\'m not making much progress here...

Thanks

Sam

[MDesigner]

OK, magically it started working images/icons/smile.gif All is well. But I\'d like to know.. w/ instruments that have keyswitching (like the SAM Horns solo horn), it shows purple keys.. i assume they\'re the keys that switch articulations. But how do I tell which key does what?

Sorry, I\'m brand new to this & very excited images/icons/smile.gif

Sam

PS: Still can\'t get Sonar XL to work w/ Gigastudio

[SteveHanlon]

click on the key then play the white keys.

click on a different purple key, then play the white keys...you\'ll hear the difference.

when you\'re composing in a track in Sonar, you can place these keyswitching notes in your sequence (just like regular notes but they don\'t make a sound...) and Gigastudio will switch to that keyswitch. You\'ll hear it.

[MDesigner]

Thanks but how do I know which keyswitch does what? I can tell the sound difference... but it would be nice to know which key does what exactly

[Chadwick]

If there was no text file with the Sam trumpet, go to their website and see if there\'s more info. Otherwise, do a search on this forum. I\'m sure it\'s been listed in the sample libraries forum somewhere.