Native Instruments Officially Announces Guitar Rig 4 Pro

Looks like our intel was spot on yesterday: Native Instruments has officially announced Guitar Rig 4 Pro, the next generation of its excellent, computer-based guitar effects action. The fourth version features advanced new speaker emulation technology, and further expands on many other of the product’s attributes.

Guitar Rig 4 Pro introduces advanced cabinet and microphone modeling, providing an enhanced organic tone based on latency-free convolution technology. The advanced speaker emulation is also the basis for the versatile new “Control Room” module, developed in collaboration with leading German studio guitarist and recording expert Peter Weihe. This new module allows users to freely mix and match up to eight phase-aligned studio microphones for each cabinet, allowing an unlimited range of high-end studio recording tones.

To further expand its comprehensive arsenal of carefully modeled amplifiers, Guitar Rig 4 Pro offers two additional tube amp models that include the hot-rodded “Hot Plex” and the energetic “Jump”, both based on Native Instruments’ sophisticated Dynamic Tube Response technology.

The comprehensive arsenal of effects in Guitar Rig 4 Pro is complemented with two new delay units and two new flavors of reverb, bringing the overall number of included effects to 48.

Musicians who use Guitar Rig for live performance benefit from the new, dedicated master effects section, which enables popular stage configurations that can now include global equalizers as well as overlapping delays and reverbs. For recording purposes, Guitar Rig 4 Pro also introduces true-stereo processing across the whole signal chain, which greatly accommodates the usage of the software as a universal effect unit for stereo signals.