Musiclab RealEight 6

We are proud to present the RealEight virtual guitar instrument - the ideal guitar for creating lead, rhythm riff, and even bass tracks in your future rock and metal masterpieces! New RealEight got full-featured chording/strumming engine letting you successfully use it in a wide range of rock and pop music styles as well!

REALEIGHT is 8-string sample-based electric guitar virtual instrument.

RealEight provides incredible playability based on easy-to-use keyboard layout as well as the advanced key/pedal/velocity switch system allowing a keyboardist to perform guitar parts with a whole new level of realistic expression.

RealEight covers practically all sounds, articulations, and techniques a professional guitarist can produce on his 8-string electric guitar, including mute, bridge mute, harmonics, pinch harmonics, sliding, scraping, etc...

24-bit high quality dry samples recorded directly from pick-ups let you easily create any desired guitar sound using your favorite amplifier simulator.

WAYS OF USING

There are three ways of using RealEight virtual instrument.

• Intuitive keyboard layout allows LIVE/MIDI KEYBOARD PERFORMANCE with numerous articulations, noises, guitar-specific tricks, strumming and finger picking techniques.
• Any guitar performance produced on a MIDI keyboard can be recorded or directly programmed IN A MIDI TRACK OF ANY DAW.
• BUILT-IN SONG SEQUENCER designed to arrange up to the entire song by simply inserting chord symbols and selecting pre-recorded guitar rhythm patterns.

SOUNDS AND NOISES

We've carefully and meticulously recorded high quality dry samples of each fret of all strings directly from custom handmade 8 string electric guitar's pick-ups which let you easily create any desired guitar sound using your favorite amplifier simulator. RealEight sample library includes not only sustain sounds, but also other guitar-specific sounds with dynamics and nuances an experienced performer can get from his/her instrument.

GUITAR FX PROCESSOR

Version 6 supports external guitar FX processors which are important to create a realistic guitar part. Our experts have thoroughly examined guitar tones used in most popular songs played by greatest guitarists and came up with more than two hundred authentic presets which sound similar to what they heard, ready to be used in your next song. We recommend to use open-source Guitarix.vst virtual guitar amp as a robust and versatile solution to use these presets. Combining a virtual guitar and an FX processor allows you to store a guitar sound and an FX processor preset at the same time, which a real time saver.

TECHNIQUES AND CONTROL

An authentic sounding guitar part cannot be recorded by using samples on their own, but requires a bunch of guitar-specific techniques, which are simulated in RealEight. Whether you are playing live or programing a DAW, these techniques are controllable by using special gestures, key switches, key velocity, modulation wheel, sustain pedal, key aftertouch, MIDI CC, DAW parameter automation, and any combinations of these.

CHORD VOICING

Guitar chord voicing is very unique depending on guitar construction and is absolutely necessary to reproduce in order to achieve authentically sounding chordal parts. Our patented technology provides accurate reproduction of guitar chord voicing automatically for 30 chord types in all existing inversions, extensions and alterations.

RHYTHM PATTERNS

In order to record an authentic accompaniment track, most session guitarists carefully study characteristic rhythm parts for the required style. We created a huge rhythm library consisting of 1250 patterns. It can be easily used for quickly creating guitar accompaniment parts in the DAW or in our internal Song sequencer.

REALISM

Sophisticated humanization algorithms vary samples, technique and control parameters, timing, chord strum aspects to reach best possible realism in guitar tracks. That helps you bring a digitally simulated guitar performance maximally close 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 convenient, featured packed and give the user endless musical options. Whether a Beginner, Professional or a Producer you will find our products the answer for all of your virtual guitar needs.

Features:

1. GUITARS
2. 8-strings, 24 frets (huge 5-octave note range)
3. Standard and Baritone tunings
4. Bass mode lowering the pitch of all strings to Bass guitar tuning
5. Ready-to-use Double Track and Quad Track guitar patches with a single MIDI input
6. SAMPLES
7. High quality 24-bit samples
8. Multi-channel sample layering technology
9. Every fret of all 8 strings sampled, up to 30 different samples for repeated notes
10. Authentic, deep velocity response
11. PERFORMANCE MODES
12. Solo, Harmony, Bass&Chord, Bass&Pick, Chords
13. Multi mode (universal)
14. MIDI Guitar (normal guitar via MIDI interface input)
15. ASSIGNABLE FX
16. Up to 30 Key/Pedal/Velocity/Mod.Wheel Switch FX
17. 33 keys for Key Switches
18. Custom Key Switch presets (save/load)
19. Toggle/Temporary switch modes
20. CHORD DETECT/CONSTRUCT
21. 1-4 note piano chords to 6-voice guitar chords real-time translation
22. 30 chord types recognition, including sus2, sus4, 6/9, 7th, 9th and altered chords
23. 4 chord positions along the fretboard
24. Slash Bass Chords option - allows to perform major/minor triads with any note in the bass
25. About 2000 instant guitar chord shapes
26. CHORD EDITOR
27. Edit/change factory chord fingerings with a mouse click
28. Create custom chord banks
29. HUMANIZATION
30. Sound, Timing, Velocity, Pitch randomization
31. SONG MODE, A POWERFUL SONGWRITING TOOL
32. Easy-to-use built-in Song Track for constructing guitar parts
33. Powerful Style Filter letting you find suitable patterns by musical criteria
34. Chord Selector, allowing to quickly select and insert chords
35. Import the whole chord sets directly from WEB page or Text document
36. Export Song Track as a Standard MIDI file to use with any third party instruments
37. Advanced Humanize engine, allowing you to easily add more realism to the performance with a mouse click
38. PATTERN LIBRARY
39. 1250 guitar rhythm patterns covering a wide range of music styles
40. Pattern Tree view allowing to easily find/select rhythm patterns
41. Pattern view, graphically presenting guitar 'Strokes' contained in the current rhythm pattern
42. Auditioning selected pattern by simply pressing chord on the external keyboard without starting your host sequencer
43. Total synchronization with host's tempo, start/stop, beats, loop, time signature...
44. Drag'n'Drop selected pattern from Pattern window right to your host's MIDI track
45. TUNINGS
46. 8-string standard guitar tuning: F#-B-E-A-D-G-b-e with 8th string lowered to E (Drop E, expandable to Drop B)
47. 7-string baritone guitar tuning: F#-B-E-A-D-f#-b with 7th string lowered to E (Drop E, expandable to Drop B)
48. 8-string bass guitar tuning: F#-B-E-A-D-G-C-F. Notes played by MIDI will now trigger lower by octave sounds, thus keeping the whole keyboard layout unchange
49. SOUNDS
50. Full length (recorded with full attack and sustain)
51. Muted (fret hand mute)
52. Bridge Mute (right hand mute)
53. Harmonics
54. Pinch Harmonics
55. Pick Noise
56. Fret Noise
57. Release Noise
58. Fret Position select
59. Pick Position select
60. Drop D, Drop C tuning (Solo mode)
61. SOUND EFFECTS
62. Violining (volume swell)
63. Sustainer (sound swell)
64. FeedBacker (harmonic feedback)
65. Wah-Wah (MIDI CC control, Auto, Modulation)
66. GUITAR FX PROCESSOR
67. V6 supports external VST3 guitar FX processors
68. V6 offers over 200 carefully crafted presets for open-source Guitarix.vst virtual guitar amp bundled with each guitar
69. V6 saves and recalls guitar and FX processor settings as a whole
70. ARTICULATIONS/TECHNIQUES
71. Up/Down strokes
72. Hammer-On/Pull-Off
73. Legato
74. Slide Up/Down (automatic and manual)
75. Tremolo, Trill
76. Bend auto
77. Reverse Bend auto
78. MonoBend (Unison Bend)
79. Muted Strums Up/Down
80. Slow Strums Up/Down
81. Strum Speed adjustable
82. Strum layers (string groups) control
83. Number of strings used in strums adjustable
84. And more

Requirements:

• mac
  • cpu:Intel or M1 (native)
  • ram:2
  • disk:5
  • version:macOS 10.12-10.15, 11, 12, 13, 14
  • additional_requirements:AAX support: Pro Tools 12/2021/2022 64bit.
  • support:
    • 64_bit
  • plugins:
    • VST-2
    • VST-3
    • AU
    • AAX
• windows
  • ram:2
  • disk:5
  • version:10, 11
  • support:
    • 64_bit
  • plugins:
    • VST-2
    • VST-3
    • AAX

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