#Guitar rig 2.0 software
These feel very positive and, in fact, the action of the switches possibly caused more delay in changing sounds than any software latency! I’m not complaining though, because they’ll take a heap of punishment. It’s a rugged piece of gear with a metal casing and switches of the old-fashioned, chrome style. Now for the unfortunately-spelt Foot Kontroller. Clever! There’s also a basic sequencer – again for programming simpler accompaniments. Tape One can play back audio files of many flavours at different speeds and pitch for you to jam along with, while Tape Two records the results. But perhaps even more noteworthy are two virtual tape decks – one at the top of the rig and the second at the end.
Other morsels in the virtual rig include Input and Output modules, a good tuner – the usual guitar goodies. First on my wishlist to Native Instruments is for a nice, clean compressor and preamp to be added to the rig. I finally got a nice sound by placing the compressor at the very bottom of the signal chain, though it didn’t really make sense. At the same time I struggled to find a compressor that wasn’t more suited to crushing Eddie Van Halen into submission and didn’t smother the acoustic’s tone.
The lesson learned was not to assume the cabinet was necessary. Only then did things lose that harsher, coiled pickup kind of sound. Trying to build a nice, natural acoustic guitar preset took a while and I ended up using the ‘Jazz’ amp head (emulating the Roland Jazz Chorus amplifier) without any accompanying cabinet. Simply put, you can create almost any sound you’ll need with GR3’s components.īut because Guitar Rig leans so much towards electric guitar and bass, I eventually hit a snag. You might prefer the metal-shredding noise of the Sledgehammer module. Changing the amps gave me a better variety of bite and grunge, rather than adding distortion effects, but each to their own. Unless you’re attempting something quite radical, the logical steps of starting with an amp head, then adding an array of effects can quickly result in some excellent noises. While Guitar Rig 3 offers a huge range of great presets arranged in a browser window, for once I’ve actually gotten more satisfaction from building my own rigs from scratch. Some of the components have outrageous settings that give you synthesizer and pad-like sounds from your guitar. The effects presets use similar themes like ‘Eric’s Creamy Lead’ and ‘Stevie’s Rhythm’, too. For example, you can have a tube-driven distortion module called the Skreamer, which is suspiciously coloured the same green as a certain classic Ibanez Tube Screamer pedal. The order in which you connect the components is entirely up to you, and like a real-world signal path, varying the arrangement of the various speakers, heads and effects has a dramatic affect on the outcome. There’s a good selection of available devices and most mimic famous real-life products (and probably flirt dangerously close to somebody’s copyright). To set up a rig, simply drag & drop a choice of components into the rack, starting with (if you like) an amplifier head that automatically includes a matching speaker cabinet… but more on that in a moment. Guitar Rig 3 carries on from previous incarnations by offering a vertical – and virtual – rack configuration for your sounds. PLACING YOUR ORDERīut before we assume the ‘goblet of fire’ pose, let’s look at the software. Straight away, I got interested in checking out the practicality of using Guitar Rig 3 on stage in stand-alone mode as well as the obvious studio applications. And before you ask, it’s unclear whether ‘Kontroller’ is a literal German translation or one of those crazy, ‘Hey, let’s spell it badly!’ marketing ideas.
It’s come in a box with Native Instrument’s Guitar Rig 3 and its USB 2.0 Foot Kontroller. Thankfully, for the latter, help has now arrived. Things haven’t changed much, except that nowadays my guitar playing ping-pongs between DAW projects in my studio, where amplifier modelling plug-ins make me sound awesome, and the occasional pub gig where I still need to dredge up all the talent I can muster. I don’t mind telling you because I know I’m not alone. When it came to performing difficult songs, instead of wasting my valuable youth (and precious drinking time) rehearsing, I simply stomped on more effects pedals and smothered my incompetence with grunge and delay. Getting four fingers to act independently was just too tricky. To give you a good idea of my guitar playing prowess I’ll confess that I’m self-taught and avoided B-minor chords for about the first five years. If you lack a few skills on guitar, why not stomp on a pedal… everyone else does.
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