We are pleased to present the RealEight virtual guitar instrument – the ideal guitar for creating lead, rhythm riffs and even bass tracks in your future rock and metal masterpieces! The new RealEight has a full-featured recording/streaming engine that allows it to be successfully used in a wide range of rock and pop music styles!
REALEIGHT is a sample-based 8-string virtual instrument for electric guitar.
RealEight delivers incredible playability with a comfortable keyboard layout and advanced key/pedal/speed switching, allowing the keyboard player to perform guitar parts with a whole new level of realistic expressiveness.
RealEight covers virtually every sound, articulation and technique a professional guitarist can produce on their 8-string electric guitar, including mute, bridge mute, harmonics, plucked harmonics, sliding, scratching, etc… 24-bit high-quality dry samples
, Recorded directly from the pickups, you can easily create any guitar sound you want using your favorite amp simulator.
HOW TO USE:
There are three ways to use the RealEight virtual instrument.
The intuitive keyboard layout allows you to play guitar parts LIVE/MIDI using multiple articulations, noises, guitar-specific techniques, strings and fingers.
Any guitar performance created on a MIDI keyboard can be recorded or directly programmed into the MIDI track of any DAW.
The built-in sequencer is designed to arrange up to an entire song by simply inserting chord symbols and selecting pre-recorded guitar rhythm patterns.
SOUNDS AND NOISE:
We carefully and meticulously recorded high-quality dry samples of every fret of every string directly from handcrafted 8-string electric guitar picks, allowing you to easily create any guitar sound you want using your favorite amp simulator. The RealEight 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 very important for creating a realistic guitar part. Our experts have 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 similar to what they’ve heard, ready to use on your next song. For a reliable and universal solution for using these presets, we recommend using the open source virtual guitar amplifier Guitarix.vst. The combination of a virtual guitar and an FX processor allows you to simultaneously save a guitar sound and an FX processor preset, which saves a lot of time.
TECHNIQUE AND CONTROL:
An authentic-sounding guitar part cannot be recorded using samples alone, but requires a number of guitar-specific techniques that are modeled in RealEight. Whether you’re 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 SONING:
Guitar chord voicing is very unique depending on the design of the guitar and is absolutely essential to producing authentic sounding chord parts. Our patented technology provides accurate automatic guitar chord voicing for 30 chord types across all existing inversions, extensions and alterations.
RHYTHMIC PATTERNS:
In order to record authentic accompaniment, most session guitarists carefully study the characteristic rhythm patterns 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, and chord string aspects to achieve maximum realism in guitar tracks. This allows a digitally simulated guitar performance to be as close as possible to the analog recording of a best-in-class session guitarist.
SUMMARY:
RealEight and all MusicLab virtual guitars are simply the best in the industry. They are convenient, multifunctional and provide the user with limitless musical possibilities. Whether you’re a beginner, a professional, or a producer, you’ll find the answer to all your virtual guitar needs in our products.
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