Guitar Rig
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Guitar Rig 3 | |
| Developer(s) | Native Instruments |
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| Stable release | 5.2.0 / March 1, 2014 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X |
| Type | Guitar multi-effects processor |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | Native Instruments product page |
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Guitar Rig is a amp and effects modeling software package developed by Native Instruments. Primarily designed for electric guitar and bass, the software uses amplifier modeling to allow real-time digital signal processing in both standalone and studio (VST/DXi/RTAS/AU) environments.[1]
It was originally released in mid-2004.[2] The latest version, Guitar Rig 5, was released on 1 September 2011.[3]
Overview
The Guitar Rig environment is a modular system, providing capabilities for multiple amplifiers, effects pedals and rack mounted hardware. The software simulates a number of devices such as preamplifiers, cabinets and microphones under pseudonyms (such as renaming the Shure SM57 as the "Dynamic 57").
The system allows customisation of module parameters – either through manipulation of the graphical interface, use of a MIDI controller or employment of the RigKontrol. Settings can be saved as presets and exported and shared with other users. Version 3 included a redesigned interface to allow improved preset categorisation and customised interfaces for "live" use.[4]
Before version 3 was released, the graphical user interface simulated amplifier logos and design construction. In version 3, this was replaced with a generic name in the default Guitar Rig typeface.
RigKontrol
The RigKontrol is a foot-operated USB and MIDI controller. It contains an audio interface and DI box,[5] allowing integration with live sound environments.
The device can operate Guitar Rig using eight switches and an expression pedal. Earlier versions of the device contained only six switches and an expression pedal, and did not support interfacing functionality.[6]
Components
Guitar Rig includes the following components, many of them modeled after or inspired by pieces of hardware (named in parentheses).
Amplifiers
- AC Box (Vox AC30)
- Bass Pro (Ampeg SVT-2 Pro)
- Citrus (Orange Overdrive OD120)
- Cool Plex (Marshall JTM45)
- Gratifier (Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier)
- High White (Hiwatt DR-103)
- Plex (Marshall 1959 SLP)
- Hot Plex (Marshall Plexi 1987x)
- Hot Solo+ (Soldano Hot Rod 100 + or SLO-100)
- Jazz Amp (Roland Jazz Chorus-120)
- Jump (Marshall JMP)
- Lead 800 (Marshall JCM800 Lead)
- Twang Reverb (Fender Twin Reverb)
- Tweedman (Fender Bassman)
- Tweed Delight (Fender Tweed Deluxe)
- Ultrasonic (Bogner Überschall)
- Van 51 (Peavey 5150 or Peavey 6505)
- Rammfire (Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier Rev. C)
Microphones
- Con 30 (Earthworks M30)
- Con 47 (Neumann U 47)
- Con 54 (Neumann KM 54)
- Con 67 (Neumann U 67)
- Con 87 (Neumann U 87)
- Con 149 (Neumann M 149)
- Dyn 6 (Audix D 6)
- Dyn 20 (Electro-Voice RE 20)
- Dyn 40 (Heil PR 40)
- Dyn 57 (Shure SM 57)
- Dyn 112 (AKG D 112)
- Dyn 421 (Sennheiser MD 421)
- Dyn 441 (Sennheiser MD 441)
- Rib 121 (Royer R-121)
- Rib 160 (Beyerdynamic M 160)
Cabinets
Control Room (Pro):
- 2 x 12 AC Silver (Vox AC 30 Silver Alnico Speakers)
- 4 x 12 Modern (ENGL E412VG)
- 4 x 12 Vintage (Marshall1960 JTM50 4×12 75W cabinet)
- 2 x 12 British (Vox AC30)
- 2 x 12 American (Something like a Fender Super-Sonic 60 212)
- 1 x 15 Bass Vintage (Supro Thunderbolt Jensen Speaker)
- 4 x 10 Bass Alu (Hartke 4.5XL Aluminum 10s)
- 8 x 10 Bass Pro (Ampeg SVT 810 SVT 10s)
- 4 x 12 Van 51 (Peavey Sheffield 51501200s)
- 4 x 12 Ultra B (Bogner Uberkab Celestion Vintage 30s)
- 4 x 12 Ultra A (Bogner Uberkab Celestion G12T)
- 1 x 12 Tweed (Fender Tweed Deluxe Jensen P12R)
- 4 x 10 Tweed (Fender Bassman Jensen P10Qs)
- 2 x 15 Twang (Fender Dual Showman JBL D130s)
- 2 x 12 Twang (Fender Twin Jensen C12Ns)
- 2 x 12 Jazz (Roland JC 120 Roland 12s)
- 4 x 12 Hot Solo+ B (Soldano 412B Eminence Legend)
- 4 x 12 Hot Solo+ A (Soldano 412B Eminence S12Xs)
- 4 x 12 Modern (ENGL E412VS PRO)
- 4 x 12 UK 80s White (Marshall 1960 G12T 75s)
- 4 x 12 UK 80s Black (Marshall 1960 JBL K120s)
- 4 x 12 UK 70s White (Marshall Basketweave G12Ls)
- 4 x 12 UK 70s Black (Marshall Basketweave Vintage G12H30s "Blackbacks")
- 4 x 12 UK 60s Green (Marshall 1960 G12Ms)
- 4 x 12 High White (75 Hiwatt SE4123 50w Fane Purple)
- 4 x 12 Gratifier (Mesa Rectifier 4x12 V30s)
- 4 x 12 Citrus (Orange PPC 412 V30s)
- 2 x 12 AC Blue (Vox AC30 Blue Bulldog)
- DI Box (generic)
Cabinets & Mics (Legacy):
- 1 × 12 Tweed Alnico '(Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Tweed)'
- 1 × 12 Custom (Fender Blues Junior)
- 2 × 12 Tweed (Fender 57 Twin? (Blue/Green/Cream = No idea)
- 2 × 12 Brit 60s (Vox AC30)
- 2 × 12 Chief V-30 (PRS 2×12 Open Back or maybe a Bogner Custom Shop 2×12)
- 2 × 12 Custom (No idea (Lopoline maybe?)
- 2 × 12 Jazz (Roland JC-120 Jazz)
- 4 × 10 Tweed Alnico (Fender 59 Bassman)
- 4 × 12 UK 60s Tall (Marshall 1960 JTM45 4×12 60W cabinet)
- 4 × 12 UK 60s (Marshall 1960 JTM50 4×12 75W cabinet)
- 4 × 12 UK 80s (Marshall 1982a)
- 4 × 12 UK 70s (Orange PPC 412-C)
- 4 × 12 High White (Hiwatt SE-4123)
- 4 × 12 Gratifier (Mesa/Boogie 4×12 Rectifier Standard Slant)
- 4 × 12 Ultrasonic (Bogner 4×12 Slant)
- 1 × 15 Bass Pro (Ampeg SVT-15E or B-115E)
- 1 × 15 Bass WR (SWR WorkingPro 1×15)
- 4 × 10 Bass Pro (Ampeg SVT-410HE or B410-HE)
- 4 × 10 Bass WR (SWR WorkingPro 4×10)
- 8 × 10 Bass Pro (Ampeg SVT-810E)
- 8 × 10 Bass WR (SWR Megoliath 8×10)
- Rotator Horns (Leslies in different cases)
Effects units
Delay & echo
- Delay Man (Electro-Harmonix Memory Man)
- PsycheDelay (Eventide H3000)
- Quad Delay
- Tape Echo (Roland RE-201 Space Echo)
- Traktor Delay
- Twin Delay
Distortion
- Big Fuzz (Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi)
- Cat (Pro Co RAT)
- Demon Distortion (MXR Dime Distortion DD11)
- Distortion (Boss DS-1)
- Fuzz (Dunlop Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face)
- Gain Booster
- MeZone (Boss MT-2 Metal Zone)
- Mulholland Drive
- Skreamer (Ibanez TS-808 Tube Screamer)
- Sledgehammer (Marshall Jackhammer JH-1)
- TransAmp (Tech 21 SansAmp GT2)
- Treble Booster (Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster)
Dynamics
- Fast Comp (Feedback Compressor, behaves similar to an UREI 1176)
- Limiter
- Noise Gate
- Noise Reduction (Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor)
- Stomp Compressor (Boss CS-1 Compression Sustainer)
- Transient Master
- Tube Compressor (Electro-Harmonix Black Finger Compressor)
- VC 160 (DBX 160 VCA Compressor/Limiter)
- VC 2A (Teletronix LA-2A Classic Leveling Amplifier)
- VC 76 (UREI 1176 Limiting Amplifier)
- Volume Pedal
EQ
- Custom EQ
- EQ Graphic
- EQ Parametric
- EQ Shelving
- Solid EQ
Filters
- AutoFilter (Musitronics Mutron III)
- Cry Wah (Dunlop Cry Baby)
- Filterbank (Moog Moogerfooger MF-105M MIDI MuRF)
- Formant Filter
- Peak Filter
- Pro-Filter (Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 Filter Section)
- Real Wah (Real McCoy Custom RMC-1)
- Talk Wah (Heil Sound Talk Box)
- Wahwah (Vox Clyde McCoy Wah Pedal)
Modifier
- Analog Sequencer
- Envelope
- Input Level
- LFO
- Step Sequencer
Modulation
- Electric Lady (Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress)
- Ensemble (Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble)
- Flanger (TC Electronic Stereo Chorus + Flanger)
- Phaser Nine (MXR Phase 90)
- Rotator
- Stereo Tune
- Stoned Phaser (Electro-Harmonix Small Stone)
- Tremolo (Boss TR-2 Tremolo)
Pitch
- Harmonic Synthesizer (Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer)
- Octaver (Boss OC-2 Octave)
- Pitch Pedal (DigiTech WH-4 Whammy)
- Resochord
- Transpose Stretch
Reverb
- IceVerb (Lotus Pedal ICEVERB)
- Little Reflektor (stripped down version of NI Reflektor, IR-based)
- Octaverb
- Reflektor
- Spring Reverb (Fender Spring Reverb Unit)
- Studio Reverb
- Traktor Reverb
- Vintage Verb
Special FX
- Beat Slicer
- Beatmasher
- Gater
- Grain Delay
- Reverse Grain
- Ring Modulator (moogerfooger MF-102 Ring Modulator)
- Ringmod
Tools
- Container
- CrossOver
- LoopMachine
- MasterFX
- Split
- SplitMS
Release History
| Version | Release |
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| Guitar Rig 1 | June 14, 2004[7] |
| Guitar Rig 1.1 | July 5, 2004 |
| Guitar Rig 1.1.1 | August 12, 2004 |
| Guitar Rig 1.1.2 | October 14, 2004 |
| Guitar Rig 1.2 | November 23, 2004 |
| Guitar Rig 1.2.1 | August 17, 2005 |
| Guitar Rig 2 | November 16, 2005[8] |
| Guitar Rig 2.0.2 | May 30, 2006 |
| Guitar Rig 2.2 | November 13, 2006 |
| Guitar Rig 2.2.1 | March 28, 2007 |
| Guitar Rig 3 | October 4, 2007[9] |
| Guitar Rig 3.1.1 | July 30, 2008[10] |
| Guitar Rig 3.2.1 | February 18, 2009 |
| Guitar Rig 4 | October 2, 2009[11] |
| Guitar Rig 4.0.8 | April 15, 2010[12] |
| Guitar Rig 4.1.1 | September 1, 2010 |
| Guitar Rig 4.1.2 | February 25, 2011 |
| Guitar Rig 5 | September 1, 2011[13] |
| Guitar Rig 5.1 | March 22, 2012[14] |
| Guitar Rig 5 Pro | March 12, 2013[15] |
| Guitar Rig 5.2.0 | October 28, 2013[16] |
References
- ↑ White, Paul (September 2004). "Native Instruments Guitar Rig". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ↑ "Guitar Rig gets a tune-up". Sound on Sound. 2004-08-10. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ↑ "Guitar Rig 4 Pro Pricing". Native Instruments. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
- ↑ "Native Instruments Announces Kontakt 3 And Guitar Rig 3 Software". Harmony Central. 2007-09-12. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ↑ Inglis, Sam (December 2007). "Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ↑ Inglis, Sam (February 2006). "Native Instruments Guitar Rig 2". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ↑ http://www.macmusic.org/news/view.php/lang/en/id/1885/
- ↑ http://www.kvraudio.com/news/guitar_rig_2_demo_version_now_available_4262
- ↑ http://www.emusician.com/gear/0769/native-instruments-guitar-rig-3/147273
- ↑ http://www.native-instruments.com/forum/showthread.php?55431-Official-update-status-Guitar-Rig-3-%96-Current-3-2-1
- ↑ http://www.kvraudio.com/news/native_instruments_releases_absynth_5_guitar_rig_4_pro_kontakt_4_and_komplete_6_kontakt_v4_0_1_update_available_12599
- ↑ http://www.native-instruments.com/forum/showthread.php?94620-Official-update-status-Guitar-Rig-4-%96-Current-4-2
- ↑ http://www.guitarsite.com/news/software/Guitar-Rig-5-Pro-Announced-Native-Instruments/
- ↑ http://www.native-instruments.com/forum/showthread.php?148987-Official-update-status-Guitar-Rig-5-Current-5-1
- ↑ "Guitar Rig 5 Pro Review". Guitarhoo!. Guitarhoo.com. February 5, 2014. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2013/10/28/ni-guitar-rig-now-64-bit-aax.html
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