Electri6ity - Electric Guitar Virtual Instrument Review

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(More customer reviews)This is without a doubt the best sounding guitar sample based software today the sounds are extremely well recorded and the articulations are awesome. I firmly believe that you can emulate pretty much every kind of electric guitar sound with a combination of this software and the right effects. If you are a producer and keyboard is your instrument electri6ity is a must.
I have been using this software for the last 2 months and I found 2 cons so far:
1. effects are low quality. This is not big deal because like I mentioned before you can combine this with your own set of effects. I use it in combination with NI guitar rig 4 and it sounds AMAZING!!!
2. This thing is a CPU/Memory hog. electri6ity will take a decent processor and about 1 to 2 gbs of spare ram to run it I am running logic 9 studio on a i7 imac with 8 gbs of ram and there seem to be a bug with logic studio where i get spikes in cpu and audio drop outs when I use electri6ity as a plug in, the work around to this is to use it as an external instrument in stand alone mode and direct the audio output of kontact to a bridge like soundflower, again no big deal but kinda annoying to go through the extra steps. I also have ableton but I haven't done any testing with electri6ity in live yet.
So far the pros outweigh the cons on this so give it a shot once you hear it is definitively worth it.

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Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 - Kontrol Version Review

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(More customer reviews)There's not much I can say that isn't already covered by professional testimonials, video reviews, and product demos.
In short, Guitar Rig 3 is an extremely versatile, powerful effects system. The hardware is extremely solid-- I've carried this thing around to live gigs, stuffed it in a backpack as carry-on for a plane ride, even spilled a little bit of beer on it (not recommended). The worst I've done is dinged it with a falling mic stand. It put a small scratch on it (similar to scratching the paint on a car door), but that's about it.
There's definitely a slight learning curve for the software itself, but you can download the demo from their website to see if it's too much for you to handle. All the help and tooltips are plenty to keep you moving along-- and spending more time playing music and less time twiddling knobs. However, the cool part is that if you like twiddling knobs and settings, you can spend countless hours dialing in all kinds of vintage, modern, or never-heard-before sounds. My friend, (a lead guitarist who owns an analog guitar pedal company), despite being a bit of a sound purist, was really impressed with the sheer number of tones I can emulate. Sometimes, the sounds have a tendency to be a little bit 'digital' sounding if you don't adjust them properly, but the software upgrade to Guitar Rig 4 supposedly improves some of this. (I haven't tried it yet myself). My solution was to add an analog pedal (Philosopher's Tone) to the front of my effects chain.
I use an Intel-based Macbook Pro and a Peavy KB3 amplifier.
PRO TIP: a keyboard amp is the way to go since they have a higher frequency range that allows you to get the full range of tones out of the software. If you go with a specific guitar amp, you may severely limit the variety of tones the software can produce. The software itself effectively mimics all kinds of vintage amps--more than most people could ever afford to own. This may seem unintuitive, but if you spend a little time on the Guitar Rig forums, you'll find this out from others' experience too.

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