Musiclab

If you are serious about creating truly realistic sounding solo and accompaniment guitar for your songs, Musiclab's RealGuitar is just what you need. RealGuitar is a sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar part performing on keyboard.

The true power of RealGuitar lies in brand 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 of playing on up to 104 guitar frets using just 43 keys of a standard keyboard!
• Musiclab's original Guitar Touch technology letting 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.
• Guitar Rhythm Pattern technology providing powerful Pattern Manager completed with huge MusicLab Guitar 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.
• The unique Struminator technology letting you use alternative MIDI controller (standard Guitar Hero game controller for Sony Playstation 3 by Activision Inc) for creating authentic guitar accompaniment parts with ease and fun.

These technologies allow to closely emulate live guitar sound and techniques, letting you perform guitar parts with a whole new level of realistic expression. It is even possible to get that special recognizable sound of a real 12-string guitar using samples taken from an ordinary 6 string guitar, as well as to achieve true Doubling (double track) effect.

Features:

Guitars
RealGuitar includes 555 MB sample set featuring 8 Acoustic guitar patches:
• Steel Picked
• Steel Fingered
• Nylon Picked
• Nylon Fingered
• Steel 2 Picked
• Steel 2 (Doubling)
• 12-string
• Steel Stereo 290MB

Samples
• Every fret of all 6 strings including up/down/muted strokes sampled
• World famous guitars
• High quality guitar samples
• New multi-channel sample layering technology
• InFace sound concept
• True Doubling (double track) effect
• Custom 32-bit sound engine

Sound Effects
• Stereo Tremolo
• 2-way Stereo Chorus

Performance modes
• Solo, Harmony, Bass&Chord, Bass&Pick, and Chords modes

Sounds
• Full length (recorded with full attack and sustain)
• Muted (fret hand mute)
• Palm Mute (right hand mute)
• Harmonics
• Smacks
• Fret Position select
• (V3) Pick position select (15 points)
• Pick Noise (adjustable level)
• Fret Noise (auto)
• Release Noise (auto)
• (V3) Drop D, Drop C tuning (Solo mode)
• (V3) Key Switch FXs (Solo mode)
• up to 30 assignable FXs
• 33 keys for Key Switches
• Custom Key Switch presets (save/load)
• Toggle/Temporary switch modes
• Pedal/Velocity Switch FXs
• 30 assignable FXs
• (V3) Modulation Wheel Switch FXs (Solo mode)
• 12 assignable FXs (including Mode Toggle)

Articulations/Techniques
• Up/Down strokes
• Hammer-On/Pull-Off (up to octave range)
• Hammer-On with automatic Pull-Off on key release (up to octave range)
• Legato
• Slide Legato Up/Down (up to octave range)
• Slide Up/Down (up to 2-octave range, speed adjustable)
• (V3) Slide Up/Down Trigger to/from sustaining notes (speed/range adjustable)
• Tremolo (up/down strokes, speed adjustable)
• Trill (up to octave range, speed adjustable)
• Bend auto (range, speed adjustable)
• Reverse Bend auto (range, speed adjustable)
• MonoBend (Unison Bend, lower string bend)
• Muted Strums Up/Down
• Slow Strums Up/Down
• Chucka-Chucka (barre chords muted) Up/Down, various string combinations
• Strum Speed adjustable
• Strum layers (string groups) control
• Number of strings used in strums adjustable

Chord detect/construct system
• 1-4 note piano chords to 6-voice guitar chords real-time translation
• 30 chord types recognition, including sus2, sus4, 6/9, 7th, 9th and altered chords
• 4 chord positions along the fretboard
• Slash Bass Chords option - allows to perform major/minor triads with any note in the bass
• About 2000 instant guitar chord shapes
• (V3) Chord Editor (edit/change factory chord fingerings)

Pattern Manager
• Built-in multi-functional Pattern Manager letting you in no time create professionally sounding guitar accompaniment tracks
• MusicLab Guitar Pattern Library (1250 rhythm patterns covering a wide range of music styles)
• Pattern Tree view allowing to easily find/select rhythm patterns
• Pattern view, graphically presenting guitar 'Strokes' contained in the current rhythm pattern
• Auditioning selected pattern by simply pressing chord on the external keyboard without starting your host sequencer
• Total synchronization with host's tempo, start/stop, beats, loop, time signature...
• Drag'n'Drop selected pattern from Pattern window right to your host's MIDI track

Real time pattern arranging (changing pattern performance on the fly):
• Add/reduce dynamics (velo+)
• Randomize dynamics
• Apply velocity of trigger chord to pattern dynamics
• Continuous dynamics changes (+/- velocity assigned to Pitch Bender controller)
• Controlling string layers in strums (full/upper/lower) with the input chord notes

Requirements:

• 2GB+ RAM, 5GB+ free hard drive space
• Windows XP SP3/Windows Vista SP2 32bit or 64bit,
• Windows 7 SP1 32bit or 64bit, Windows 8.1 32bit or 64bit
• VST2 32bit or 64bit/VST3 32bit or 64bit
• OS X 10.6/10.7/10.8/10.9/10.10
• VST2 32bit/VST3 64bit/AU 32bit or 64bit
• AAX support: Pro Tools 10.3.9 AAX32, Pro Tools 11 AAX64.