Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 - Kontrol Version

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Product Features

• Twelve supreme-sounding guitar and bass amps
• New matched cabinet module provides tried and true classic sounds in seconds
• 44 perfectly emulated guitar effects
• 17 guitar and six bass cabinets, four rotary speakers and nine microphones
• Includes Rig Kontrol 3 foot controller with Audio/MIDI interface

Product Details

• Item Weight: 9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 14 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000WHFGCS
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #18,134 in Musical Instruments (See Bestsellers in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

Product Description

GUITAR RIG 3 is the ultimate all-in-one guitar and bass solution. Simply connect your guitar with your computer via the enhanced Rig Kontrol 3 foot pedal and you are ready to go. The on-board studio-quality soundcard routes the signal to your speakers, while the software grants you access to an incredible number of perfectly modeled classic amps, cabinets, mics and effects - all arranged in a super-simple drag-and-drop rack format. Any style, any time - the perfect solution for professional studio and live setups.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars Where's the Love?, October 29, 2009

By	LWAddict "Rich" (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

I'd have given the product 4 stars...
5 if Guitar Rig 4 would eventually show up.
(We were promised the free upgrade because we were late buyers in Oct 2009)

But...
the customer service is not just less than good,
it's pathetic.

US Sales number will literally tell me that they can't do anything for me,
"it's all run by Germany" who's got great long distance numbers and doesn't help either.

Email... you get a response sometimes, mostly telling you things will be fine.
Then dead air.
You call them... dead air.

I actually was on the phone with one of the US people while typing this and he literally hung up on me.

So, in short, the product is good...
if you don't ever plan on upgrading, patching the software, or asking questions.
Just hope it works the first time for you.

Native Instruments, you and I are through professionally. :P

13 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unless things change I will never buy another Native Instrument product again, March 5, 2008

By	Christian Baptiste (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The product itself is great, too bad that their registration sucks and the Customer Service is even worse. Since I purchased the upgrade to GR3 the stupid register screen comes up almost every time I open the software. When I use it in Sonar, not only does the stupid registration screen come up, it will lock me out of Sonar because there is no way to close the the reg screen.

I keep getting the same canned emails telling me to turn off anti virus (that I don't have) and reinstall, and clean out my registry.

A COMPANY SHOULD NEVER PUT THE CUSTOMER THROUGH THIS MUCH HELL TO USE SOFTWARE THAT THEY HAVE PAID FOR>>>>> Securing their software from thieves should never come at the expense of their customers.

God help you if you have to be put on hold - their hold music is enough to want to pull your eye ball out, and their CS staff is less than helpful. Why don't they walk their customers through the issue rather than telling the customer, I will send you another email to fix the problem. You already did that you dumb as*. It didn't work.

DONT BUY NATIVE INSTRUMENT PRODUCTS UNLESS THEY LOOSE THIS CRAPY REGISTRATION. It is really too bad because the product (when not being bothered with the registration) is really great. The product itself I would recommend to anyone.

FRUSTRATED AND PISSED OFF!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guitar Rig/Komplete 5, September 3, 2009

By	James P. Jones - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I love Guitar Rig 3! I use Line 6 Gearbox, IK Multimedia Amplitube 2. I got Guitar Rig 3 as part of Komplete 5.

The amp modeling is fantastic & the extras like the LFO filters, Tape Decks, etc. make it a great choice for those who have the Line 6 & IK products as there is enough sonic differences to augment those products and not feel guilty
about having more than 1 virtual amplifier solution.

The registration that was complained about in earlier posts did not affect me. The NI Service Center was easy, I did not have issue at all. The other people most likely had a firewall setting preventing the NI Service Center from allowing traffic to the server.

Looking for to Guitar Rig 4 now.