You can use awave as a demo to convert, you just won't get a multiple instrument to completely conver; for example if you have a giga file with 3 instruments in it, say a bass, piano and drum set, you can only convert one of those 3. I never seen more than 1 instrument per giga file however, so don't know if this is their nature or what, and don't see a problem with converting. As long as you do some preconversion stuff in awave studio's settings, you won't have any loss in sound quality. Hint, you can use awave to convert from giga to sf2, and then use sf2 patcher to combine multiple sound fonts... Hope this helps, D!J!X! _____ From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Elorza Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:52 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: converting giga to SF2 I know there is Awave studio , Extreme sample converter and chicken systems translator but they are not free. ----- Original Message ----- From: neville <mailto:neville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:52 PM Subject: [ddots-l] converting giga to SF2 I heard someone on this list mension something about a free softwhere that converts giga to SF2. Has anyone ever used this softwhere? How much of the quality is lost after the conversion?