On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 21:05 +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> On Friday 09 March 2012 21:02:00 David Robillard wrote:
> > > > gig::Engine error: Failed to load instrument, cause: Can't open
> > > > "/mdkhome/sound/recording/ardour3/PianoLive/plugins/126/state6/Black
> > > > Grand Medium Ambient.gx01"
> > > > 
> > > > This file is some other file connected with the Black Grand.
> > > 
> > > Sigh.  I was under the impression that .gig files were always
> > > self-contained.  I do not have any files like this.
> > 
> > Maybe a dev more familiar with LS can help me with this.  Does the
> > engine know about these files?  How can I get a list of them?
> 
> Those are so called "extension files" of the Giga format. Those were 
> introduced 
> by Tascam to circumvent the 2GB file size limit of the RIFF format, on which 
> the Giga format is based on.
> 
> See method:
> 
> void File::LoadSamples(progress_t* pProgress);
> 
> in src/gig.cpp of the libgig sources.

Thanks.  I'll wade around and figure out how to get at this information
from LS.

(That 32-bit limit really sucks...)

-dr



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