OK, Rubén w/Weird Al here, asking a crazy question. I’ll use a simple approach…I make a rackspace, with a plugin, wired to 1 widget, (forget the midi block for now)…save rackspace…Now, in a different “empty gig” can I make an instrument from: 1 plugin, with 1 widget (as before), Save it Somehow as “???” and then go back and merge it into the 1st rackspace that I created earlier…I know that is probably not readily available because of possible conflicts with widgets, and that’s why I’m using just one here…What do you All think?..Thanks, R
You can export and import your first rackspace.
Thanks. I do not want 2 rackspaces…I want to merge the two different instruments, with their respective panels into 1…Thanks again, R
That is not possible by design.
Maybe you can take a look at the global rackspace
You said you create the rackspace in one gig file, then in another, EMPTY gig file you want have the rackspace you created before. So how would you end up with 2 rackspaces if you imported your rackspace? Maybe I’m not understanding…
I think he rather wants to import one rackspace into another, thus “merging”.
Say you have two rackspaces, one for a perfect e-piano sound, another for a perfect pad sound, both with corresponding additional effects…
now the goal would be to combine those two rackspaces into one (the perfect layered or split e-piano/pad sound with corresponding additional effects).
Obviously this is a great idea (which has been raised before), but not so easy to implement, because there are so many components within a rackspace (correlations, scripts, handles, connections, variations) which all had to be taken in account, when it’s about merging rackspaces… a difficult task!
And to make it short: Unfortunately this is not possible (yet).
Ruben mentions using “an empty gig”. So, I wonder if he wants to use two instances of GP? (I never tried using multiple instances, so I won’t comment further).
Thanks Everyone! Sorry for the confusion over this. Simply, I wanted to create a custom instrument (ie. my “default piano”), all wired and widgeted properly, then, merge it into another instrument rackspace… I can get close to this, using the Favorites function, saving No.1 instrument and its wirings (midi block, etc) and then inserting this “favorite” into wiring section of another (No.2) instrument’s rackspace …BUT…I cannot save and then load the PANEL that goes along with No.1 instrument into No.2 rackspace. …This, is is where the impasse lies. Thanks again, Rubén
If it is your default piano you use all the time, that does seem to me like a good candidate for the Global Rackspace instead of copying and pasting it into multiple rackspaces. (Or maybe a 2nd instance, but I do not know enough to comment on that).
If you’re really feeling weird, you might try directly getting real cosy with the XML in the .gig file to Frankenlace a composite gig file using the complementary bits from the two lonely gig files.
This is a very bad idea. Don’t do it.
You might be able to get it to work… but probably not. And if you do it might crash GP horribly. Which on the upside will be totally Al’s fault. Of course it wouldn’t be that big a deal it would just be one more thing you know doesn’t work and it would only cost you a couple of minutes of head scratching. A Hail Mary never hurts. I’d mute your board first too. Maybe get everybody out of the building, safety first.
On the other hand it might be completely infeasible and pointless to even try. But nobody has to DIE!
And now, David Jameson to correctly advise and confirm that you should absolutely not under any circumstance ever attempt to edit a .gig file with a text editor, and then load the edited Franken version into Gig Performer because there is no compatibility guaranteed between versions since (can confirm) the XML in a .gig file is nonstandard. Who knows WHAT might happen. Huh. Did you catch that eclipse?
David (and probably others) will also say don’t do it and they’re of course right. Always back up your work too. I recommend saving a copy of the .gig file to monkey with called “FLAMING DUMPSTER BOAT.gig” just to remove any ambiguity.
Uh oh. Al doesn’t have a song called “FLAMING DUMPSTER BOAT” does he?
Just back away from the Notepad++ icon. Don’t do it, man.
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Thanks Everyone, Global is not the solution. Just want to have separate custom instruments with their wiring AND PANELS already created. Then at my choosing, push it/them into another rackspace which has its Own instrument/wiring/ AND Panel, already created…A “Merge” to put it simply…To speed up workflow…I don’t think this is possible yet…I can wait… Long Live GP!!