GIG "package"

Sounds like a Gigasampler file. Its used to be a popular heavy duty software sampler in the late 90s, but has been discontinued ...

http://www.tascamgiga.com/products/gigasampler.html

http://swami.resonance.org/trac/wiki/GigaSampler

Hehe no problem Bariga, glad to be of help. I'll keep helping till I earn a dozen of your fine beers ;) Just so happens Belgian beers have quite a reputation down here :)

I should also add that I'd imagine the newer GigaStudio range of software would be able to open old Gigasampler GIG files, though I'm not certain of that.

Oh yeah, duvel.... they're brewed by insane drunken belgian monks aren't they? :P I seem to recall a friend of mine telling me about those, he was into a range of expensive imported beers, mostly from belgium and around that region.

Hey I just did some more searching, and apparently its possible to open GIG files using the demo of Awave Studio, and then export all the audio data as WAV files, or another file format... you might like to try that out? Although from the Demo limations secion, it looks as though its only possible to save a single file at a time, rather than dump the entire lot?

However, as it supports reading/writing of a ton of different formats, maybe you could open the GIG file, and then save it as a single giant file to load into another piece of software that you have?
These are the file formats awave studio supports.

Hmmm apparently Translator Free can convert limited amounts of GIG data also...

And I also read that Kontakt can open GIG files too.

some of them worked others didn't so kontakt isn't the gig reader neither :)
still i can use my daburka's now, so you won't hear me complaining...

btw i don't know if there were drunk but they were monks :p
i think it commercialized through high demands :)
and belgians don't like dutch beers...
it's just they think heiniken is a real beer :p

anyway matt thanks you really helped me out a bit :)
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.GIG files are made and optimized for tascam's gigastudio (stand alone) or gvi (the vsti plugin) OR if you have .GIG files from Vienna Symphonic they have their own interface, although I have no problem opening them up with vsampler (vsti and stand alone). Supposedly you can open them up with Kontakt as well, but I'm having a lot of problems doing so.