RealGuitar Demo 1.5 review

If you are serious about creating truly realistic sounding solo and accompaniment guitar stuff for your songs, our new product called RealGuitar is just what you need.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: MusicLab, Inc. Buy Now Price: $159.00 Updated: 28 Jul 2005

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If you are serious about creating truly realistic sounding solo and accompaniment guitar stuff for your songs, our new product called 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 3 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!

"Our 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.

Here are some key features of "RealGuitar Demo":
Sound:
World famous guitars
High quality guitar samples
Every fret of all 6 strings including up/down/muted strokes sampled
New multi-channel sample layering technology
InFace sound concept
True Doubling (double track) effect
Built-in EQ and FX (Stereo Tremolo, 2-way Chorus)
Custom 32-bit sound engine

Performance:
Solo, Harmony, Bass&Chord, Bass&Pick, and Chords modes
1 instant guitar chords + up strum, down strum, up/down muted strum, slow drum chords
1-4 note chords to 6-voice guitar strums real-time translation
26 chord types recognition, including 7th, 9th and altered chords, in any inversion and voicing
Automatic Fret position change
Strum speed adjustable
Repeat Key zone (for performing repetitions, tremolo, up/down/muted strums)
Velocity switch articulations (slow strum, slide up/down, bend, reverse bend,)
Key switch guitar effects (harmonics, mute, palm mute, body smacks)
Slide (up/down, assignable number of steps)
Hammer On, Pull Off
Tremolo (notes, chords)
Polyphonic controllers (applying Pitch Bender, Modulation Wheel, AfterTouch to individual voices)
Automatic Fret Noise and Release Noise

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.

Limitations:
demo version will work for 14 days after installation
demo version is limited to only one of eight available guitar patches.

What's New:
Added MIDI Pattern Library support.

Requirements:
512MB RAM (1GB+ recommended), 600 MB free hard disc space
Mac OSX 10.3/10.4, G4 800+ MHz, VST.