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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". db (K-v-R forum) - I just got my RealGuitar. Haven't had much free time to play with it for mor than a couple of hours.
However, my first impression was that it really did sound like an acoustic guitar. All too many sampled guitars end up sounding like a harpsicord or a clavinet. I'd swear that the people who did the sampling had NEVER played a guitar in their life. Arys Chien (K-v-R forum) - To me the power of RealGuitar lies in the chord mode (strumming), not the solo mode (single note/ melody).
For the chord mode, I found nothing better so far. I've been using Acoustic Essentials for chord strumming in the past, but yesterday I did an A/B test and found that RealGuitar sounded better.
P.S.: AE samples 7 chords, but RealGuitar can create 26 chords. Other libraries that sample less then 3 chords are simply useless.
P.P.S: Though theorically sampled strumming should sound more authentic then strumming consist in single notes, yet just play with RealGuitar and you'll know theories may not always be correct.
RealGuitar doesn't sample any "strumming sound". The strummings consist in single notes. Yet they do sound convincing.
The strumming respond to velocity:
1. The velocity of the single note samples decide how hard or soft they sound;
2. The velocity also decide how many strings will be strummed. If you hit the keys softly, only 2 or 3 strings will be strummed, just like when you're playing a real guitar. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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