Tone Shifter Pro 3 Interface & MIDI Controller

Though interfaces like the excellent are great for bridging the divide between music creation apps running on an iPhone or iPad and an electric guitar, changing tones on the fly does involve taking playing hands away from the guitar to make a touchscreen selection. China's Tone Shifter has developed a box that places such control, and much more, at a player's foot-stomping disposal.

The 220 x 114 x 35 mm (8.7 x 4.5 x 1.4 in), 0.75 kg (1.65 lb) Tone Shifter 3 allows players to access music creation apps such as , JamUp, Cubase and Guitar Rig running on iOS devices (via the included Apple adapter), a Mac or a Windows PC. Guitarists can use the unit as a controller for the software running on the connected device, and select different tones or change the pitch by pushing down the four stomp switches up top, with the promise of zero latency operation. A backlit LCD display and LED status indicators provide a visual guide to modes and selections.

The interface supports recording and playback at up to 16-bit/48 kHz audio resolution, there's independent left and right inputs, each with its own gain control and clip indication, an integrated headphone amp and jack and independent left/right output jacks (with output level control) for connection to powered speakers or a guitar amp.

The Tone Shifter 3 can also act as a MIDI hardware controller via the MIDI input port, allowing foot control of such devices as the , the POD 2.0 from Line 6, the Vox Tonelab and Fractal's . In addition to mains power (the unit is said to be compatible with AC or DC adapters ranging from 7 to 18 V in either positive or negative pole position), the Tone Shifter 3 can be powered by the hardware it's connected to.

What’s more, Tone Shifter 3 can be used as a standalone MIDI controller for most gear with the MIDI IN input. Even the AXE FX2 and Kemper Profiling Amps can be perfectly controlled by Tone Shifter 3.

Tone Shifter 3 smart sound interface can be device powered. In additional, the special designed power inputs Jack PW1/PW2 can be plugged by almost adapter from 7V to 18V regardless of AC or DC, +/-poles. That is also a firm guarantee of the reliability. You can’t damage Tone Shifter 3 with an unselected power suppl

Tone Shifter 3 Smart Sound Interface highlights include:

Works with thousands of music apps including JamUp, BAIS FX, AmpKit, ToneStack Go, Guitar Rig, Amplitube, Revalver, Overloud TH, WAVE GTR, POD Farm, Nuendo, Sonar, Cubase and so on.

Work as MIDI controller to multi-effects, guitar amps and keyboards with MIDI-IN interface such as KPA, AXE, POD, TC, Eventide and so on.

Both R&L Inputs support guitar and Mic input, integrated gain controller and clip indicator

Hi-Fi headset output and R/L independent output with gain control for monitor or stage mixer.

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