It could probably survive being run over by a car, and should certainly be robust enough to stand up to stage use. The new Rig Kontrol is a smart-looking beast with a reassuringly thick metal skin. With so many new features to talk about, I won't go into detail here about the modules that were already included in version 1, and I suggest that anyone unfamiliar with Guitar Rig should read Paul White's review in SOS September 2004. The hardware is now not only a controller and DI box, but also a USB 2.0 audio and MIDI interface, meaning that you no longer need a third-party soundcard to use Guitar Rig on your Mac or PC. The software now includes numerous new amps - including, for the first time, bass amps as well as guitar amps - new cabinets and new effects, as well as an entire new category of module called Modifiers. Time marches on, and NI have produced a thorough overhaul of both Guitar Rig and Rig Kontrol. 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.
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