realguitar
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
- 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
Chord detect/construct system
(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
(V3) Joystick mode (game controller guitar input)
(V3) MIDI Guitar mode (normal guitar via MIDI interface input)
RealGuitar ToolBox
RealGuitar ToolBox is an “add-on” product for RealGuitar 2 letting you use RealGuitar unique features in a whole new and creative way in live performance:
- Play solo and accompaniment guitar parts simultaneously with two individual RealGuitars from a single keyboard using the advanced key split MIDI Input;
- Perform accompaniment guitar part with RealGuitar and solo part with any third party synth loaded directly to RealGuitar ToolBox;
- Switch on the fly between up to 12 RealGuitars having fully individual settings, including guitar patch, performance mode, any parameter values, panning, etc;
- Add audio effects installed on your system to RealGuitar ToolBox output;
- Save all configurations as RG ToolBox presets for future use.
RealGuitar ToolBox features:
- RG Accompanist — splitted MIDI input with left key range pre-defined for RealGuitar2, and right key range for playing solo part with any third party VSTi/DXi/Dls/Au instrument loaded directly to RG ToolBox;
- RG Dozen — automatically loads 12 default RealGuitars to 12 Pads that you can remotely select by MIDI note or by Program Change command;
- RG Duet — splitted MIDI input with two RealGuitars pre-loaded: RealGuitar A (right key range for solo part) and RealGuitar B (left key range for accompaniment part).
Compatibility
- Operates as a virtual instrument software plug-in in all major hosts like Logic, Cubase, Digital Performer, Sonar
- Works as a Standalone module
Shipping
- RealGuitar is available both as retail and downloadable (185MB each installer Mac/PC, 116MB Video Tutorial) versions. Retail version includes RealGuitar (Mac/PC), RealGuitar Basics Video Tutorial and printed manuals in English, German and Japanese languages.
System requirements
1GB+ RAM, 2GB+ free hard drive space
Windows XP SP3/Windows Vista SP2 32bit or 64bit
Windows 7/8 32bit or 64bit
Intel Core, VST 2/DXi host.
OS X 10.5/10.6/10.7/10.8, G5 or Intel Core, VST 2/AU host. (V3) Native VST3 64bit support
RTAS support is available in ProTools 6/7/8/9/10 via FXpansion's VST to RTAS adapter 2.1 on OS X 10.6.8. For OS X 10.7/10.8 adapter requires update.
Distributors
Europe and United Kingdom
Japan
Scandinavia
India
United States