Tascam GVI Giga Virtual Instrument Plug-In (Windows)
TASCAM's new GVI is the ultimate sampler
Get the multi-award winning power of GigaStudio 3 in an easy-to-use plug-in for Windows VSTi and RTAS software workstations. It's the sampler for all musicians, composers and producers, with unobstructed access to the best sound libraries ever produced. GVI shares much of the feature set that makes GS3 the go-to sampler for professional power users.
What you get
It's a 16-part multitimbral sampler with unlimited polyphony performance and the ability to run multiple instances - limited only by the power of your computer. GVI takes advantage of the latest Giga technology, like 96kHz/24-bit sample support, iMIDI rules for realistic phrasing and embedded GigaPulse technology for instrument resonance and ambience.
What it means to you
You get the most realistic, organic and playable sampled instruments ever created at your fingertips. Since its introduction, GigaStudio has been the pinnacle of sampling technology. Now TASCAM GVI brings the ultimate sampling instrument to an easy to- manage plug-in instrument that integrates with your creative workflow.
Accept only the best
GVI is the first and only plug-in sampler worthy of the name Giga, allowing you to easily add realistic, playable sampled instruments to your productions without compromising sound quality.
GIGA Continuous Velocity Piano
Without fanfare, TASCAM has made available Continuous Velocity Piano, a free GVI Player based VST, RTAS and stand-alone instrument for Windows that utilizes GIGA's Spectral Morphing technology instead of massive multisampling. This instrument utilizes only a single velocity sample, which is precisely and continuously expanded via the Spectral Interpolate Velocity (SIV) mode of GIGA's Spectral Morphing filters, to cover the full dynamic range, pp to ff.
Continuous Velocity Piano is based on spectral morphing. Eliminating the need for many bulky, discrete sample layers, spectral morphing technology produces continuous, spectral variation by processing only a single baseline sample velocity. Using the baseline as a starting point, the spectral morphing filters then dynamically interpolate frequency characteristics, which can then be continuously morphed during and after musical notes are played. The result is far greater musicality with over ten times the amount of dynamic expression. Another benefit is that instruments are much smaller in memory consumption, yet with greater playability and realism.
Continuous Velocity Piano showcases both spectral morphing and convolution modeling, transcending the boundaries imposed by numerous, separate, sample layers, which has been the traditional approach. Spectral morphing provides a much more elegant and powerful solution that players can certainly feel, and virtual instrument developers can now create instruments in a fraction of time by eliminating the majority of laborious multi-sample collection. For example, the new Continuous Velocity Piano is only 180MB compared to the 1.1GB size of the GigaPiano-II, yet the new instrument has effectively Eighteen times the number of sample layers.
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