


Guitar Rig came with Rig Kontrol, a floor unit that didn't act as an audio interface, but served both as an impedance-optimised DI box and a foot controller for the software. NI also broke new ground by making a hardware unit integral to their software package. Its free-form interface allows the user to choose any number of elements from a list that includes amps, speakers, stompbox and studio effects, and arrange them in any order to create their own guitar sound. Among the many high-quality packages now available, Native Instruments' Guitar Rig stands out as the only truly modular system there is. In the decade or so since Line 6 launched Amp Farm, software amp modelling has come a long way in both quality and diversity. With version 2 of their Guitar Rig, Native Instruments are taking amp modelling into the realms of modular synthesis.
