NAME

       gigdump - List information about a Gigasampler (.gig) file.

SYNOPSIS

       gigdump [OPTIONS] GIGFILE

DESCRIPTION

       By default it prints out a list of all available samples, real-time instrument scripts and
       instruments within a Gigasampler (.gig) file, along with detailed information about  their
       properties and settings.

OPTIONS

        GIGFILE
              filename of the Gigasampler file

        --instrument-names
              Only list instrument names and their index number.

        --rebuild-checksums
              Rebuild  checksum  table  for all samples. Read description of  --verify option for
              more details about sample checksums in  general.  Usually  you  only  need  to  use
               --rebuild-checksums  in  case  the samples' CRC checksum table itself was damaged.
              The  --verify option will tell you if that is really the case and will  suggest  to
              you  to  use   --rebuild-checksums  to  repair  the  table  in  such cases. If only
              individual samples were damaged, you  rather  might  want  to  replace  only  those
              damaged  samples  with  gigedit(1)  for  example. Read description of  --verify for
              reasons to do so. When using  --rebuild-checksums all checksums of all samples will
              be  regenerated.  Hence you should manually check all samples once after using this
              option. That is by using your ears, or by exporting the samples, but not  by  using
              the  --verify option. Because the latter cannot identifiy damaged samples that have
              been damaged before the entire checksum table had been regenerated.

        -v    Print version and exit.

        --verify
              Check raw wave data integrity of all samples and print result of this  check.   For
              all  samples of a gig file a correspondig CRC32 checksum is stored along to its raw
              wave form data whenever a conscious change to the wave form data was performed.  By
              calling  gigdump  with  this option all samples are scanned and compared with their
              existing checksums to detect any  damage  to  individual  samples.  The  individual
              damaged  samples  are  listed by gigdump in this case. Since essentially the entire
              file has to be read, this can take a long time and  hence  this  check  is  not  by
              default performed i.e.  each time a gig file is loaded for regular use for example.
              Accordingly you may use  --verify from time to time  to  check  explicitly  whether
              your gig files have been damaged for some reason, i.e. after modifying them with an
              instrument editor like gigedit(1).  In case damaged samples  were  found,  you  may
              replace  those  damaged  samples with gigedit(1).  By doing this, only the replaced
              samples' checksums will be updated. All other checksums  remain  untouched.  That's
              why this approach is recommended over using  --rebuild-checksums in such cases.

SEE ALSO

       gigextract(1),   gigmerge(1),   gig2mono(1),   gig2stereo(1),   dlsdump(1),   rifftree(1),
       akaidump(1), sf2dump(1), korgdump(1)

BUGS

       Check and report bugs at http://bugs.linuxsampler.org

Author

       Application and manual page written by Christian Schoenebeck <cuse@users.sf.net>