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Matthew Jason Walsh - Since receiving and diving into RealStrat two months ago, I learn at least one incredible thing a day about this piece of software. I myself prefer to play the instrument in Solo Mode, rather than trigger or play chords in the other modes, and I have little use for the MIDI player, though I've tried it out and admire the work that went into it. However, the way you've set it up, you can easily achieve realistic playing in any mode. I usually set up Bridge Mutes on the Velocity trigger and manually play my own open power chords. If I want to perform scratches or harmonics, I either set them up in Velocity triggers or in Keyswitches. I've spoken up in your forums about being able to assign feedback on an "accelerator" type floor pedal or with the modulation wheel that would allow feedback to be introduced gradually, rather than sharply, but this is a very minor detail. You've even overcome the unrealistic way most electric guitar VIs - ones boasting a lot more alleged "articulation" and "fidelity" than RealStrat/LPC - by having programmed legato that allows the chords to flow openly and naturally into one another like a real guitar. Usually, everything I could dream of doing, I manage to either read up on in Sergey's FAQ answers on the forum or just by doing a very little bit of experimentation. Except ... I've been detailing on the forums my problem with trying to get a certain rock sound via bridge mutes and open chords in RealStrat. I tried everything from increasing the pick sound and mute sound to different playing styles and nothing has worked. Finally, out of desperation, I listened to the RealLPC demos posted on your site. The first two audio demos alone sounded exactly like the guitar sound I was trying to achieve! I then downloaded the RealLPC demo and loaded it up. Within approximately five minutes, I had RealLPC running through Amplitude and got the precise guitar sound I was looking for. It was then that I realized that the reason I wasn't getting certain sounds out of RealStrat was because it was a STRAT, and was designed to play a cleaner, more open and jangly sound, whereas the RealLPC was designed to play more modern distorted rock-style sounds. They're both perfect emulations of the guitars they were modeled on and both have their place in my music. In fact, by doubling a RealStrat with a RealLPC and running them through appropriate amps, you can come up with some amazing guitar textures. The bad news is, it will be a long while before I can afford to splurge on RealLPC, and I will have an extremely heavy heart when my demo version expires. The good news is, once I DO buy RealLPC, I can throw out DirectGuitar 2L and Ministry of Rock, and, between RealStrat and RealLPC, I will never sweat buying an electric guitar VI ever again. And I'll have a lot more free hard drive space.
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.
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