GUITAR RIG KONTROL Hardware Reference – 37  
The easiest way to assign a button or the pedal of the 
RIG KONTROL
 to any function in 
the rack is to drag it from the VirtUal kontrol and drop it on the parameter you want to 
control. For a detailed description of the way controller assignments work, please refer to 
the Getting Started Guide and the Application Reference.
6.2  Using MIDI Controllers with the RIG KONTROL MIDI Interface
While being capable of sending MIDI messages to control other applications, the RIG 
KONTROL communicates with GUITAR RIG 4 directly via USB. Nonetheless, it features a 
standard MIDI interface with one input and output channel.
To use a controller connected to the MIDI input jack, make sure that the RIG KONTROL 
MIDI channel is activated in GUITAR RIG 4:
1. 
Open the “Audio and MIDI Settings”. On Windows, they are found in the “File” menu, 
under Mac OS in the “Guitar Rig 4” menu.
2.  Go to the MIDI tab.
3. 
On the “Inputs” table, locate “RIG KONTROL” and switch it on by clicking in  
the “Status” column.
The MIDI input channel is set on the oPtions pane of GUITAR RIG 4: On the controllers 
tab, click on the dropdown menu labeled “MIDI channel” and select 1-16 or omni. To learn 
how to assign functions to external MIDI controllers, refer to the Getting Started Guide 
and the Application Reference.