Yes, you can use the TonePort hardware without GearBox software. What is ToneDirect™ monitoring?
ToneDirect monitoring allows you to monitor a fully processed signal with extremely low latency regardless of the buffer size of your recording application. This means that there is an incredibly small delay between when you play a note and when you actually hear the sound from your speakers. This is unusual among audio interfaces because with other more traditional monitoring solutions, you either have to: – listen to processed audio with significant latency often such that it is hard to play along with what you are recording or – listen to a signal with no processing. It’s uninspiring to say the least to hear completely dry electric guitar with no amp, cab, or effect processing.
