As a guitarist, you spend a fair amount of time alone practicing, writing, and honing your craft —necessary, but not always exciting. What if you had a bassist and drummer who were always available, ready to learn your song the first time you played it, well-versed in multiple styles of music, and who started and stopped when you wanted, and played at your tempo? Now you can have it all with the DigiTech TRIO Band Creator!
More than a static, preset-pattern generator, the TRIO is a band creator in a pedal. Plug in your guitar, press the footswitch, and the TRIO learns your chords and rhythm by listening to what you play. Press the footswitch again, and the TRIO automatically generates bass and drum parts to match.
The TRIO has seven different musical genres to choose from and 12 different musical styles within each genre, selectable via the Genre and Style knobs. The TRIO can learn three different song parts (for example, verse, chorus, and bridge). All of these features are selectable during playback, allowing you to “audition” different interpretations of your song. The Alt Time button offers another variation, usually half-time or double-time. The bass and drums have individual level knobs, and there’s a tempo knob to slow down or speed up your song.
The TRIO’s outputs are optimized to sound great whether you’re listening through your guitar amp, headphones, or a mixer. Two different, appropriate guitar sounds, per genre, can be selected by pushing the GUITARFX button. This enables you to use the TRIO with just your guitar, a cable, and a set of headphones.
