A sample-based guitar virtual instrument
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"RealGuitar is now easier to play and enables you to create more authentic, expressive parts. An excellent update." - Computer Music
If you’re serious about creating truly realistic sounding solo & accompaniment guitar melodies, this new product by MusicLAB is just what you need! RealGuitar is a sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to guitar sound modelling and performing.
The true power of RealGuitar lies in 3 new technologies incorporated in this innovative guitar performance tool:
- New multi-channel layering technology, incorporating a custom library of specially recorded samples taken from every fret of all 6 strings of a real guitar.
- The unique Floating Fret Position technology, which imitates change of fret position of a guitarist´s hand on the neck. This gives you the possibility to play up to 104 guitar frets using just 43 keys of a standard keyboard!
- The original Guitar Touch technology lets you easily imitate basic guitar techniques (strumming, plucking, sliding, bending, muting, etc..), using standard MIDI keyboard and MIDI controllers, such as Pitch Bender, Modulation Wheel, Sustain Pedal, Aftertouch.
These technologies allow realistic live guitar emulation, so you can now perform guitar parts with a whole new level of expression.
RealGuitar 2L version is equipped with powerful Pattern Manager allowing to use RealGuitar MIDI Pattern Library for easily creating guitar accompaniment tracks. All you have to do is to find the appropriate rhythm pattern[s] in the Pattern Manager tree view, copy it to the needed number of measures, start your sequencer and use MIDI keyboard to play chord changes, or alternatively add chords to a MIDI track via sequencer´s editor.
RealGuitar features:
- Custom 32-bit sound engine
- Built-in EQ and FX (Stereo Tremolo, 2-way Chorus)
- Every fret of all 6 strings including up/down/muted strokes sampled
- True Doubling (double track) effect
- Solo, Harmony, Bass&Chord, Bass&Pick, and Chord modes
- 1000 instant guitar chords
- 1-4 note chords to 6-voice guitar strums real-time translation
- 26 chord types recognition, including 7th, 9th and altered chords
- Automatic Fret position change
- Strum speed adjustable
- Repeat Key (for repetitions, tremolo, up/down/muted strums)
- Velocity switch articulations (slow strum, slide up/down, bend, reverse)
- Key switch guitar effects (harmonics, mute, palm mute, body smacks)
- Slide (up/down, assignable number of steps)
- Hammer On, Pull Off
- Automatic Fret Noise and Release Noise
- Polyphonic controllers (applying Pitch Bender, Modulation Wheel, AfterTouch to individual voices)
New in version 2L:
- Built-in Pattern Manager added letting you use RG Pattern Library in the whole new and convenient way (RealGuitar 2L version only)
- ´Silent´ key switching implemented
- 4 keys (C1, C#1, D1, D#1) can now be used as Key Switches letting you assign and use up to 4 various guitar effects at a time
- Pedal Switch FX added allowing to switch on various guitar articulations/effects by pressing Sustain Pedal
- Bass Zone added - splits Main Zone into two parts for seperate use of various effects
- Mono Bend added - applies pitch bending only to the lowest of the simultaneously played notes allowing to emulate guitar specific single-string bending techniques: Unison Bend, Bend/Release combined with sustained note(s), etc...
- Hammer-On with automatic Pull-Off on key release added
- Legato Slide added - automatic slide (up and down) between two legato played notes
- Tremolo FX added - automatic repetition of played note(s) on key release
- Velo Mute added - notes played with lower velocity values trigger muted sound
- Chord/Bass option added - allows to construct major/minor triad chords with any note in the Bass, such as A/G, D/F#, Dm/C, etc..
- Legato Chords implemented, letting note(s) sustain on chord change if the same note(s)/fret/string was triggered in the previous chord
- In Chords mode now it is possible to disable upper strings in a chord
Guitars (555 MB sample set):
- Steel Picked
- Steel Fingered
- Nylon Picked
- Nylon Fingered
- Steel 2 Picked
- Steel 2 (Doubling)
- 12-string
- Steel Stereo 290MB
- Additional guitar sound banks including will be available to download.
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Format
- Virtual Instrument
- Product Type : multisamples
System Requirements
- Windows 2000/XP, 1GHz Pentium 3 (2GHz+ P4 recommended), VST 2/DXi host, 512MB RAM (1GB+ recommended), 600 MB free hard disc space
- Mac OSX 10.3+, G4 800+ MHz, VST 2/AU host, 512MB RAM (1GB+ recommended), 600 MB free hard disc space
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