In the early 1960s, the history of Rickenbacker® was forever linked with one of the biggest musical upheavals of the 20th century: the Beatles’ invasion of Liverpool, England. The Beatles sparked unprecedented international interest in Rickenbacker.
John Lennon owned at least four models, and George Harrison’s 360/12 double guitar (the second released by the company)
defined a new tone at the other end of the sonic spectrum.
Its ringing sound graced the songs “You Can’t Do That”, “Eight Days a Week”, “A Hard Day’s Night”, “Ticket To Ride” and others. Jim McGuinn made the bell timbre the basis of the early Byrds style. Peter Townshend of The Who, John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Kay of Steppenwolf and many other famous guitarists of the 1960s became loyal users of Rickenbacker®.
Bands such as Oasis, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, U2 and other leading contemporary artists include Rickenbacker® guitars in their musical arsenal. Rickenbacker® is the main guitar of such artists as Peter Buck of REM, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! and many others.
REALRICK is a sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to modeling guitar sound and emulating guitar techniques on a standard MIDI keyboard.
RealRick provides incredible playability thanks to its unique performance modes and an easy-to-use keyboard layout, as well as an advanced key/pedal/velocity switching system that allows the keyboardist to perform guitar parts with a whole new level of realistic expression. RealRick covers virtually every sound, articulation and technique a professional guitarist can produce on his Rickenbacker®, including mute, bridge mute, harmonics, plucked harmonics, unison bends, string bends, picks, chords, braces and more…
24-BIT 96 KHZ high-quality dry samples recorded directly from the picks allow you to easily create any desired guitar sound using your favorite amp simulator.
RealRick includes 8 guitar patches:
6-string – mono.
12-string A – mono, 3rd pair of strings tuned to OCTAVE.
12-string B – mono, 3rd pair of strings tuned to UNISON.
6-string (Stereo/Double-track):
- full stereo (emulates the Rick-O-Sound stereo output) when used in the single-output version of RealRick.
- double-track patch when used in the dual-output versions of RealRick.
12-string A and B (Stereo/Mono): - main sound (sustain) – stereo (6/6 string split), additional sounds/noises – mono.
12-string A and B (Stereo/Double-track): - full stereo (emulates the Rick-O-Sound stereo output) when used in the single-output version of RealRick.
- double-track patch when used in the dual-output versions of RealRick.
HOW TO USE
There are three ways to use the RealRick virtual instrument.
The intuitive keyboard layout allows you to play in LIVE/MIDI KEYBOARD PERFORMANCE mode using numerous articulations, noises, guitar-specific techniques, string and finger techniques.
Any guitar performance created on the MIDI keyboard can be recorded or directly programmed into a MIDI track of any DAW.
The built-in song sequencer allows you to arrange up to an entire song simply by inserting chord symbols and selecting pre-recorded guitar rhythm patterns.
SOUNDS AND NOISE:
We have carefully and meticulously recorded high-quality dry samples of every fret of every string directly from Rickebacker® picks, which will allow you to easily create any guitar sound you want using your favorite amp simulator. The RealRick sample library includes not only sustain sounds, but also other guitar-specific sounds with the dynamics and nuances that an experienced player can get from their instrument.
GUITAR FX PROCESSOR:
Version 6 supports external guitar FX processors, which are essential for creating a realistic guitar part. Our experts carefully studied the guitar tones used in the most popular songs performed by the greatest guitarists and created over two hundred authentic presets that sound just like them and are ready to use in your next song. We recommend using the open source Guitarix.vst virtual guitar amp as a reliable and versatile solution for using these presets. The combination of a virtual guitar and an FX processor allows you to save a guitar sound and an FX processor preset at the same time, which is a huge time saver.
TECHNIQUE AND CONTROL:
An authentic sounding guitar part cannot be recorded using samples alone, but requires a variety of guitar-specific techniques that are modeled in RealRick. Whether you are playing live or programming a DAW, these techniques can be controlled using special gestures, key switches, key velocity, modulation wheel, sustain pedal, key aftertouch, MIDI CC, DAW parameter automation, and any combination thereof.
CHORD VOICES:
Guitar chord voicings are very unique depending on the guitar design and are absolutely essential for playback in order to achieve authentic sounding chord parts. Our proprietary technology provides accurate automatic reproduction of guitar chord voicings for 30 chord types in all existing inversions, extensions and changes.
RHYTHMIC PATTERNS:
In order to record authentic accompaniment, most session guitarists carefully study the characteristic rhythm parts for the desired style. We have created a huge rhythm library consisting of 1250 patterns. It can be easily used to quickly create guitar accompaniment parts in a DAW or in our internal Song sequencer.
REALISM:
Sophisticated humanization algorithms vary samples, technique and control parameters, timing, aspects of the chord string to achieve maximum realism in guitar tracks. This allows a digital guitar performance to be as close as possible to an analog recording of the best session guitarist.
SUMMARY:
RealRick and all MusicLab virtual guitars are simply the best in the industry. They are user-friendly, multifunctional and provide the user with endless musical possibilities. Whether you are a beginner, a professional or a producer, you will find in our products the answer to all your virtual guitar needs. MusicLab. We have been creating virtual instruments since 2004.
- Uninstall previous versions.
- Install.
Don’t scan plugins from hosts yet.
- Run in STANDALONE mode from desktop. It will ask you to enter license.
- Run our keygen and generate license.
- Activate with license. Make sure STANDALONE version works. After that you can scan plugin.
- Enjoy!
VERSION 6.1.2:
Fixed several bugs from the initial release.
Fixed Ableton Live crash when freezing tracks (VST3).
Fixed Steinberg Cubase crash with MIDI out active (VST3).
VERSION 6.1.1:
Fixed freezing when some preset files were corrupted.
Fixed several minor bugs.