GVI/GS4 on Windows 7

[wst3ae]

<snip> Or say goodbye to all of your gig files and jump on the Kontakt bandwagon. Learn how to program in Kontakt and spend a life time reconstructing your gig files into Kontakt. Importing them is a crap shoot.<snip>

What he said!

I've spent a great deal of time over the last several weeks slowly importing and tweaking my "old faithful" libraries from GS to Kontakt. It is a nightmare!

But... I have some confidence that Kontakt will stick around for a while, and I never really had that feeling with GS, especially after the acquisition, and then even more especially as we waited forever for GS3 and GVI.

If I were wealthy I'd be tempted to format my samples drive and start over! And, in the case of some of the old Akai 900 and Ensoniq stuff I've done just that, dug out the old CDs and re-imported to Kontakt format. I tried importing the gig files I had created when I imported this stuff into Giga long long ago, but I ran into more problems than going direct. Lesson learned I suppose, though I'll be darned if I can figure out why!

Two more cents for the debate<G>.

[wcreed]

I’ve been playing with the demo of Samplelord, a Gigasample player for Windows. Haven’t loved it enough to buy it, though it is rather inexpensive.

On the MAC side there’s G-Player, with a rumored Windows version on the way.

[kitekrazy]

I’ve been playing with the demo of Samplelord, a Gigasample player for Windows. Haven’t loved it enough to buy it, though it is rather inexpensive.

On the MAC side there’s G-Player, with a rumored Windows version on the way.

You could try Linux Sampler

[wst3ae]

I've spent some time with both SampleLord and LinuxSampler. Of the two I think LinuxSampler has the most promise, but I just reached the point where I needed to move forward.

Now I am not deleting my Giga library<G>... I'll archive it off onto some stupidly large number of DVDs I suppose, or maybe just retire the hard drive to the shelf, so there is always a chance that things might change in the future.

For that matter, NI could clean up some of the programming issues that are driving me nuts and I'll be a complete (or should that be komplete?) konvert!

[RobertTewes]

In case this helps someone, I ran into this same issue and fixed it without reinstalling.

The reason the syncrosoft driver issue appeared for you is because the registry key the driver is stored in changes with 64-bit windows, especially windows 7.

The registry location GVI apps look in for the syncrosoft info (specifically the list of plugged-in license dongles) is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\SynasUSB\Enum

Once the Syncrosoft driver is upgraded to a 64-bit windows 7 version this location changes to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\synusb64\Enum

Of course GVI and other VI's that use GVI don't know that the location has changed. If you manually recreate the same registry values found in the new location in the location that GVI apps look for them, it will make the GVI apps work.

Where is the location that GVI apps look for the registry values found at? I'm at a loss for figuring out how to enact this fix, as I too have been receiving dongle troubles with my GVI libraries. I've sent you a PM.
Thanks for any help you can provide.

[MikeGraybill]

I'm also trying to find the registry location to modify (Win7 with new eLicenser and GVI still using old registry location for Syncrosoft), but after about 3 hours of creative searching I couldn't find the GVI registry value that needs correcting.

Seen the above registry solution referenced verbatim around the net a couple places, and noticed they had successful resolutions reported within the last few days - but no one mentions where to start the corrective process in the registry.. Anyone who has done this please post? I feel like it should be obvious, but all that's obvious so far is that I'm missing something!

[dalek3]

Do the following (note, the forum sometimes puts extra blank spaces in the registry paths it seems, like it seems to change services to servic es for some reason when I post and I can't fix it, there should not be blank spaces there):

- Start regedit (Run regedit.exe)

- On the left hand side browse into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\currentcontrolset\servic es\synusb64

- Select the "Enum" subkey of synusb64 on the left hand side

- Make sure at the bottom of the window the status bar reads "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControl Set\services\synusb64\Enum"

- From the File menu in Regedit choose export, make sure that "selected branch" is chosen and not "all" (which would export the entire registry, we do not want to do this) and save the registry file somewhere, call it something like test.reg

- in Windows Explorer, find the test.reg file you just exported and right click on it and choose Edit, that will edit the file in notepad

- In the test.reg file you will find a line that says the following:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\synusb64\Enum]

Change the synusb64 in that line to "SynasUSB" so that the line reads:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\SynasUSB\Enum]

Save the changes to the file

- Find the test.reg file (or whatever other name you gave it) and run it, it will ask you if you want to import it, choose Yes

That should do the trick, next time you run GVI it should run fine. Note that if you ever want to move your GVI dongle to a USB port other than the one it is currently in, you will need to repeat this procedure, but at least following what I said should get you going.

[MikeGraybill]

Thanks so much for the very thorough walk-through. With a reboot it worked and I'm stoked (really don't have time to convert all the giga libs just yet though it seems inevitable, this is a great relief..) And much appreciated!

[jojokidmusic]

I owned Gigasampler, then upgraded to Gigastudio, then Gigastudio3 then Gigastudio 4. The 3 and 4 are both upgrades.

I would like to set up a XP-64 bit then instal Gigastudio 4. will the Gigastudio 4 upgrade load a clean install and do I go back to TASCAM for the liscense?

Thanks

[tedvanya]

I am buying a GS4 upgrade from GS3 Orchestra. My question is (naive it is) do I have a problem installing it on a XP Home machine with the dongle supplied with the upgrade?
Thanks