Native Instruments Guitar Rig Session Audio Interface

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Includes NI Guitar Rig 3 XE, Cubase LE 4, Kore Player, and Kore "Pop Drums" Soundpack software.

Studio-quality software and recording, now in Session. Guitar Rig Session delivers powerhouse tone at a down to earth price. The versatile Guitar Rig 3 XE software coupled with the portable yet robust Session I/O audio interface is a potent combination of components – specially designed to let you easily record and process your guitar, bass and vocals.

The Ultimate Guitar Interface
It may be small, but the USB-powered Guitar Rig Session I/O packs big, studio-quality sound, thanks to crystal-clear 24-bit/192 kHz converters. Built with a tough aluminum chassis, this go-anywhere box is built to last.

The Session I/O features a superb phantom-powered mic preamp, Hi-Z Instrument and Line inputs, plus level-controlled Main and Headphone outputs – giving you maximum flexibility in virtually any recording situation.

Setup Overview
The Guitar Rig Session I/O is the centerpiece of your recording set-up. The interface provides all the inputs and connections to send your instrument and microphone signals to the Guitar Rig 3 XE software on your computer. Separate headphone and monitor.

The Software
Guitar Rig Session contains the powerful Guitar Rig 3 XE software featuring 6 amazing guitar and bass amps, 12 cabinets, 21 effects and many helper features - all in award-winning Guitar Rig sound quality. The package is rounded off by Cubase LE 4, Kore Player and the Kore Soundpack Pop Drums.

Guitar Rig 3 XE
Guitar Rig Session delivers powerhouse tone at a down to earth price. The versatile read more Guitar Rig 3 XE software coupled with the portable yet robust Session I/O audio interface is a potent combination of components – specially designed to let you easily record and process your guitar, bass and vocals.

Kore Player
Kore Player is a free software instrument designed for use with Kore Soundpacks. Built on the same principles as the flagship Kore 2 Super Instrument, Kore Player includes six Native Instruments sound engines under the hood.

Kore Soundpack "Pop Drums"
Kore Soundpacks are an affordable, ultra-convenient way to instantly further expand the sonic scope of the Kore Player. Pop Drums delivers two brand new premium acoustic drum kits ready for your pop productions. Each kit was carefully recorded to give the full dynamics of a real acoustic drum set.
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System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.4 / 10.5, G4 1.4 GHz oder Intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz, 512 MB RAM

Windows PC: Pentium III oder Athlon XP 1.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM

USB 2.0 interface, DVD drive

Interfaces
Stand-Alone, VST, Audio Units, RTAS under Pro Tools 7, ASIO, Core Audio, DirectSound

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 866-556-6487 or 323-467-2693
Web: https://support.native-instruments.com/

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. (3 ratings)
Submitted June 20, 2008 by a customer from aol.com

"Good Sound But A REALLLLY Stripped Down Version."

Overall: 4 out of 5 stars
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Sound
Sound quality is not top of the line but not far from it. The Marshall sounds were about what I expected. For wild crunchy tones you could do worse than buy this.
Features
I knew this was I stripped down version of Guitar Rig but I was surprised at how much stuff they left off. I had the Guitar Rig Demo and believe me there is a Big Difference
Ease of Use
If your reasonably used to amp simulation software you should have no trouble sculpting sounds out of this.
Quality
Interface is solid and compact. No problems here.
Value
Not a bad value considering what the full version costs. Still a tad overpriced for what it is.
Manufacturer Support
Never had to use them so I will give them the benefit of the doubt.
The Wow Factor
No real sex appeal. A pratical addition to my setup I suppose.

Musical Background:

Hobbyist

Musical Style:

Electronica
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