Line 6 GuitarPort Guitar USB Audio Interface
Welcome to GuitarPort, the total guitar experience from Line 6. GuitarPort gives you everything you need at your fingertips to get the most out of your guitar, from jamming along to your favorite songs to building your soloing skills, or just playing for fun. Just connect the shiny red GuitarPort hardware to your Windows PC with the included USB cable and connect GuitarPort's stereo output to multimedia speakers, headphones or your stereo. Then fire up the GuitarPort software, plug in your guitar and you're ready to jam!
- 16 amp and cabinet models based on POD® XT
- 19 must-have Stompbox and Studio effects
- Effects can be routed Pre- or Post- Amp
- MP3, WAV and Audio CD playback
- Looping and real-time half-speed without changing pitch
- 24-bit converters & 32-bit processing
- Line level and headphone outputs
- Ideal guitar front end for other recording software
- Metronome for practicing
- Built-in chromatic tuner
- Includes preset tone library
GuitarPort Online
Each week thousands of guitarists connect to GuitarPort Online to download and play along with the latest and greatest tracks, lessons and licks. A subscription to GuitarPort Online provides unlimited access to hundreds of tracks and lessons - covering the greatest guitarists of all time. From blues legends to metal shredders...jazz virtuosos to country pickers... GuitarPort Online allows you to play with the best and learn from the best. The best part of all? If you own a GuitarPort you can join today and try it for free.
Effects
GuitarPort® features classic stompbox effects like delay, chorus, tremolo, flanger, reverb and more. Tweak to your heart's content, save as many variations as you want, or choose from our extensive library of ready to rock tones. From models based on classic stompboxes like the Fuzz Face, Tube Screamer®, Phase 90, and Uni-Vibe, GuitarPort is like having a whole rack system and custom pedal board living inside your computer.
GuitarPort also offers the ability to change the signal path of the effects for every tone. The reverbs, modulation effects, and delays can be routed either in front of the amp (pre) or after (post), so that chorus can be either a stompbox or a rack unit, depending on what you need.
Amps & Cabs
Line 6
® invented digital modeling guitar amps and is the magic behind the guitar tones used on countless platinum albums. Now, Line 6 brings that acclaimed tone technology from the greatest recording studios in the world to your desktop. GuitarPort's meticulously crafted recreations of a dream collection of 16 classic and modern guitar amplifiers coupled with two dozen cabinet options easily capture the range of tone found on the best guitar tracks ever recorded. You can mix and match POD
® XT-quality amp and cab models based on* Marshall
®, Fender
®, Mesa/Boogie
®, Vox
®, Roland
®, Soldano and more, with controls laid out for a guitarist and not some computer geek. And the sound? The same dead-on classic tones used by hundreds of thousands of Line 6 users every day.
Tracks and Jam Tools
To put your great guitar tone to use, GuitarPort® gives you an easy to use audio player that lets you jam along with MP3s, WAV files, or any audio CD in your personal collection. You can rip tracks, scan through the audio, jump to any point, loop sections, and even slow to half speed without changing pitch for careful study of your favorite lick.
The loop control lets you select any section of music and, well, loop it! Just hit the Loop button on the transport bar, grab the orange handles to set your locate points, and you'll hear the loop instantly.
With tracks that you've downloaded from GuitarPort
® Online (membership optional), the loop handles can even "snap" to the song sections like verse, chorus, solo, etc. When you're trying to learn a tricky guitar part, the Half Speed button is your friend. Click on it once and GuitarPort slows the track to half speed without changing pitch. Now you can catch every one of those notes and nail the part! Once you've got it down, turn off Half Speed and you're back to full speed, ready to jam on the new part you've learned.
Developing your technique is no longer a monotonous affair with GuitarPort’s programmable metronome. In addition to standard click, it also offers a selection of kick, snare, and hi hat samples that let you construct your own drum patterns in phrases up to eight bars long. Using the slider control to set phrase length, you can easily build a practice groove in straight 4/4, or more complex odd-meter patterns, and the tempo dial spins your beats-per-minute setting anywhere from a ridiculously slow 15 BPM to an out-of-this-world prestissimo of 300!
Other useful tools that come standard with GuitarPort include an on-board digital tuner and an intelligent hum reducer for taming the noise produced by a guitar’s magnetic pickups.
System Requirements:
Windows:
- Pentium® 4 1.2GHz or better (2.5Ghz or more recommended)
- Windows XP® (with SP2 only)
- 512MB RAM minimum (1GB or more recommended)
- 1GB free HD space minimum (10GB or more recommended for recording)
- Drive speed 5400rpm minimum (7200rpm or faster recommended)
- CD-ROM drive
- Internet connection for online features
Macintosh:
- Intel® or Power PC® based G4 1.5GHz or better (G4 1.67 or better recommended)
- OS X 10.4 or better
- 512MB RAM minimum (1GB or more recommended)
- 1GB free HD space minimum (10GB or more recommended for recording)
- Drive speed 5400rpm minimum (7200rpm or faster recommended)
- CD-ROM drive
- Internet connection for online features
Both systems: One free USB 1.1 or 2.0 compatible port on computer (USB hubs are not supported)
Audio System Requirements
In order to listen to GuitarPort, you will also need powered multimedia speakers for use with your computer, or a stereo system with audio inputs, or headphones. GuitarPort includes stereo mini (eighth-inch) and stereo RCA outputs for interfacing to music and sound equipment. Plus, of course, you're going to need an electric guitar.
Internet Connection Highly Recommended
If you want to access the optional GuitarPort Online features, you will need an Internet connection, with Internet access provided by an Internet Service Provider.
