Guitar Hero for Real Guitarists
Attention Guitar Hero heroes and Rock Band guitarist: toy controllers won't make you the musician that chicks dig. GuitarPort Online from Line 6, on the other hand, will.
Posted September 18, 2009
By SHAUN CONLIN, EVERGEEK MEDIA
Line 6 is currently offering promo pricing on GuitarPort Online, a hardware and subscription software bundle that allows you to jam with bands by connecting a real guitar to your computer.
Assuming you own an electric guitar, GuitarPort Online helps you learn a ton of songs in jam along form using accurate, onscreen tabs - i.e. finger positioning charts and virtual sheet music. Featuring authentic Line 6 guitar tones that match the unmistakable sounds of the actual guitarists that originally made them, the hardware/software bundle lets you play and practice to cover versions performed by professional studio musicians, with and without the guitar parts.
Unlike Guitar Hero or Rock Band games played on a videogame console, GuitarPort Online does not feature a scoring system, Leaderboards and tokens of achievement, opting instead to offer actual guitar playing skills as reward for efforts; strange but true.
It allows users to jam to and learn the guitar parts of innumerable songs from most every genre and rock-era decade, from the Allman Brothers to ZZ Top, BB King to Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Beatles to System Of A Down, Cold Play to Rush, Fall Out Boy to Pantera and so on.
As a limited time promotion, Line 6 is offering three months of access to GuitarPort Online plus a Line 6 USB guitar interface (which connects your guitar to your computer and lists for $100 if purchased separately) for $29.95 + shipping.
Based in Calabasas, California, Line 6 manufactures guitars, amplifiers, effects, effects processors and recording interfaces, and is renowned for studio- and stage-standard gear featuring patented amp and effect modeling and digital wireless technologies. Its award-winning products are used by musicians worldwide and have been featured on countless platinum and Grammy-award-winning titles.