But while Amplitube chased hyper-realism (and a la carte DLC hell), Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig 6 Pro took a different path. It wasn’t trying to be a museum of vintage amps. It was trying to be a laboratory .

It is incredibly intuitive. If you’ve ever used a real pedalboard, you get it. Drag a compressor, drop a delay, patch a cable.

Let’s be honest. For the last decade, if you said “software amp sim,” two names came up: Amplitube and Guitar Rig .