Guitar Rig

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Executive Summary about Guitar Rig by Wikipedia

Guitar Rig is popular guitar multi-effects processor software developed by Native Instruments. It is sold either with a pedal board hardware controller called Rig Kontrol, or the software only.

Functionality

The Guitar Rig software is a modular and signal oriented simulator of many different effects units used in electric guitars and bass guitars, such as reverb, chorus, compression, distortion, flanger, wah-wah, etc. It also simulates popular pre-amplifiers, cabinets and microphones, but using different names (eg. microphone “Dynamic 57″ referring to Shure’s SM57). Earlier versions of Guitar Rig (up to and including version 2.0) simulated the fonttypes and designs of the logos of the original equipment the software was emulating. This was later changed and all equipment ‘labels’ on the virtual Guitar Rig rack now sport the Starlet/Star font used for the Guitar Rig logo.

Version 3.0 of Guitar Rig sported a redesigned interface that simplified the organization of presets, whilst preserving the rack based design of sonic chains. It also introduced a visually redesigned ‘virtual rig control’ that resembles the hardware pedal board ‘Rig Kontrol 3′, but can be used to configure earlier pedal boards (Rig Kontrol 1 and 2) as well as third party products. For those using Guitar Rig in live environments, Native Instruments added a ‘Live View’ in version 3.0. Either as a stand-alone application or used inside a DAW as a plug-in, Guitar Rig can be used with the Rig Kontrol controller as an external USB sound card (to record the guitar’s electric output) and a parameter controller. While playing, its buttons call assigned presets and the foot pedal adjusts parameters, such as wah-wah, volume or any other component’s value assigned to it.

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