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Horst Boesing - I am RealGuitar user from beginning, cause I am a composer, keyboard player and a bad guitar player. I am producing music for wellness, relaxation, meditation etc. In this genre the licences for records are not so big that there is enough money for other studio musicians. Flute, (Real) Guitar and piano all with some combinated pads in background are the most used sounds in this genre. And here comes RealGuitar! All my acoustic guitar stuff is played with RealGuitar 2. Sometimes I use up to 3 instances, one with parts of the very useful pattern library, one for broken chords or chords and one for melody. I also used the RealGuitar in combination with virtual amps like Eleven, Sans Amp or Amp Farm and got a nice electric and more fat guitar sound for chords or melody. I use RealGuitar inside Protools since version 6.9, now with Protools 8. With help of the VST to RTAS converter 2.1 from FXpansion I never had problems with RealGuitar. Some other plugins didn't work with the converter or crashed or can only be used inside Kore from Native Instruments! But RealGuitar never crashed in Protools and worked without Kore!!! Also other plugins are now incompatible with Intel Macs or were discontinued. That was a horror for me, cause my G5 was destroyed in a thunderstorm in summer 2008 and I got the Intel Mac and a new ProTools system. Some of my plugins are without any worth mow (TC Tools), or made the system crash like Atmosphere or Trilogy with Intel wrappers. So I was happy when Omnisphere came but I have no good Bass now. RealGuitar 2 makes no problems with Intel Macs!!! RealGuitar was always adapted at the right time! So the working process was never interupted by RealGuitar! Cause I was sick for more than 2 years after a meningitis in 2006 I could start my work again this winter, not earlier. So my record licences went down and I would be happy to win a RealStrat!
Ted Perlman - I've played guitar for MANY years with just about EVERYBODY in this business, and RealGuitar is the first one I have ever heard that truly emulates a real guitar in Soooooooo many styles. It's almost as good as me :-)
Bill Evans - "RealGuitar is a true technological breakthrough. It's as realistic as it is flexibile, and an important addition to any producer's toolbox." - Bill Evans (Kerry Livgren, Neal Morse)
The O'Neil Twins - Alright, I'm going to be honest: the only guitar I've ever touched was one made by a kid's company. So since I'm in the process of scoring a local film, I thought that I was going to have to hire a guitarist for a particular scene. I even had the guitarist send me a couple of demos.
However, I then noticed the RealGuitar demo and downloaded it just for the heck of it. The moment I had RealGuitar up and running in Tracktion, I simply just started pounding my keyboard like a monkey. Needless to say, I was blown away. It is so easy (and flexible) to make great guitar pieces in seconds. Pressing the same key multiple times produces ever so slight sound variations to produce the ultimate realism. I'll let you read the other reviews for more technical descriptions :)
Well anyways, I started comparing my RealGuitar creations with the demos from the guitarist... and RealGuitar came out the winner!!! I mean that sucks for the guitarist because I didn't hire him, but I did pay him a couple of buck for the demos :)
And one last thing: I know that it's just an acoustic guitar, but I've also been treating it like an electric one. I put a few amps on some of the chords, and it sounded like Linkin' Park (that's supposed to be a compliment :))
Why can't more companies come up with such innovative VST setups? Johnny Pedersen - I must say RealGuitar sounds wonderful. Very convincing. My favorite guitar is the 12 string and the double tracking. I'm comparing to the stock samples in the Yamaha Motif ES keyboard. Finally I can't help to compare with Virtual Guitarist which I also own. Their samples are taken from actually strumming performances like Vienna strings performance set is for strings. That makes the strumming very realistic, but also limits the chords types to max 7 or maybe 9 different. Sometimes only major chords or 5th. I must say it is great to have the freedom to use individual notes with the chords like you do, and of course having 21 different types. I really think your solution is a good compromise between freedom and realism. Now go make some samples for electric guitars please. Thanks for an great innovating product.
kevvvv (K-v-R forum) - Unlike my Yellow Tools Pure Guitars, RealGuitar gives me capo locations of choice, so I can focus the sound around the 7th fret if I want, or stay with a more open string sound, or play around the 12th.
I can also specify how much I want the strings to bend or slide, or release, or the amount of body noise or fret noise which adds to the lustre as it's so selectable.
There's also options for legato, or maybe mono (for accentuating open strings or not), and stacks more stuff with chords and picking that I haven't properly got around to yet.
RealGuitar is a seriously well specified piece of action that so far kicks my sample guitar collections into touch because of its flexibility.
What is pretty obvious is MusicLabs' experience in generating guitars sounds, which is miles beyond some studio that decides "let's sample a Martin and see if it'll sell". 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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