LINE6 VARIAXWORKBENCH Details
With Variax ® Workbench™, you can select from a complete list of guitar bodies, pickups and placement, tone and volume controls, and tweak until you've come up with a guitar that is truly unique. With Workbench, it's like having all the greatest pickups, controls, and bodies of the greatest guitar collection, all at your instant disposal.
This combination USB interface and software package for Variax Electric family guitars allows you to see and hear the physical changes to your custom guitar in real time. Ever wonder what a single-coil pickup would sound like on a hollowbody tuned a whole octave down? Probably not. That's because it wasn't a reality… until now.
Build your own custom guitar at home on your PC or Mac! Variax Workbench gives you your own personal guitar custom shop with all the tools needed to easily create, store, and share the guitar you've been dreaming of.
Editor
With Variax Workbench, you can select from a complete list of guitar bodies, pickups and placement, tone and volume controls, and tweak until you've come up with a guitar that is truly unique. With Workbench, it's like having all the coolest pickups, controls, and bodies of the greatest guitar collection, all at your instant disposal.
This combination USB interface and software package allows you to see and hear the physical changes to your custom guitar in real time. Ever wonder what a single-coil pickup would sound like on a hollowbody tuned a whole octave down? Probably not. That's because it wasn't a reality… until now.
Librarian
One of the main reasons for having different guitars isn't just the pickups and sound, but the tuning. Workbench allows you to not only make your own guitars, but you can select a custom tuning to go along with it. Now your T-model setting can be in Open G, your Spank model can be tuned a half-step down, and your Lester model can go to Drop D.
You can make as many guitars as you want using Workbench's Librarian. Keep track of your custom guitars, store them on your computer's hard drive, email them to friends, or just make a CD-ROM backup so you can load your guitars into any Variax you use! Workbench allows you to fill each slot on the Variax Model knob AND five-way switch with your custom guitar collection.
Hardware
Using the special RJ-45 connector, you can go "inside" and create custom guitar models. Using the included custom digital Variax cable and converter box, you can now USB into any Windows or Mac OSX computer and edit the guitar entirely on screen. Now you can see exactly what you're playing!
Features
Works with Variax 500 and 700 guitars (acoustic and bass not supported)
Compatible with any Windows® PC or Mac® OSX computer
Allows you to completely customize any or all of the sounds on the Variax model knob and five-way selector
Create custom or alternate tunings for any electric guitar you construct
Easily create, store, share and back-up thousands of guitar models using the librarian feature
Workbench's detailed graphics allow you to see and hear the guitars you create in real time
Includes custom RJ-45 cable, USB cable and hardware interface
Self-powered through USB connection and small enough to throw in your guitar's gig bag (if not your pocket)
System Requirements:
Variax 500 or 700 guitar (acoustic and bass not supported)
One available USB port
128MB or more of RAM
Windows:
Windows XP, Windows ME, 2000 or 98SE PC
Pentium® II 400 MHz or better processor
Mac:
OS X 10.2 or higher
G4 with 400 MHz or better
Amplifier available to plug the 1/4” audio cable into
Line6 Variax Workbench USB Computer
