MusicLab – RealEight 6 (Windows)

We are pleased to introduce the RealEight virtual guitar instrument – the perfect guitar for creating lead, rhythm riffs and even bass tracks in your future rock and metal masterpieces! The new RealEight has a fully functional recording/strumming engine, allowing it to be successfully used in a wide range of rock and pop music styles!

• REALEIGHT is a sample-based 8-string electric guitar virtual instrument.
• RealEight delivers incredible playability with a user-friendly keyboard layout and an advanced key/pedal/velocity switching system that allows the keyboardist 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 muting, bridge muting, harmonics, plucked harmonics, sliding, scratching, etc…
• 24-bit high-quality dry samples recorded directly from the pickups allow you to easily create any desired guitar sound using your favorite amp simulator.

WAYS TO USE

• There are three ways to use the RealEight virtual instrument.
• The intuitive keyboard layout allows you to play guitar parts in LIVE/MIDI mode using numerous articulations, noises, guitar-specific techniques, strings and fingers.
• Any guitar performance created on the MIDI keyboard can be recorded or directly programmed into a 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.

Peculiarities

SOUNDS AND NOISE

We carefully and meticulously recorded high-quality dry samples of every fret of every string directly from the picks of a handcrafted 8-string electric guitar, 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 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 similar to what they heard, ready to use in your next song. For a reliable and versatile solution for using these presets, we recommend using the open source virtual guitar amp Guitarix.vst. 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 with samples alone, but requires a whole host of guitar-specific techniques that are modeled in RealEight. Whether you are playing live or programming a DAW, these techniques can be controlled via special gestures, key switches, key velocity, modulation wheel, sustain pedal, key aftertouch, MIDI CC, DAW parameter automation, and any combination thereof.

CHORD VOICING

Guitar chord voicing is very unique depending on the guitar design and is absolutely essential for producing authentic sounding chord parts. Our patented technology provides accurate reproduction of guitar chord voicings automatically for 30 chord types in all existing inversions, extensions and alterations.

RHYTHMIC PATTERNS

In order to record authentic accompaniment, most session guitarists carefully study the characteristic rhythm parts for the required 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, control technique and parameters, timing, chord string aspects to achieve maximum realism in guitar tracks. This allows the digitally simulated guitar performance to be as close as possible to an 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 user-friendly, feature-rich, and provide the user with unlimited musical possibilities. Whether you are a beginner, a professional, or a producer, you will find the answer to all your virtual guitar needs in our products.