Features
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
Samples
- Every fret of all 6 strings including up/down/muted strokes sampled
- World famous guitars
- High quality guitar samples
- New multi-channel sample layering technology
- InFace sound concept
- True Doubling (double track) effect
- Custom 32-bit sound engine
Sound Effects
- Stereo Tremolo
- 2-way Stereo Chorus
Performance modes
- Solo, Harmony, Bass&Chord, Bass&Pick, and Chords modes
Sounds
- Full length (recorded with full attack and sustain)
- Muted (fret hand mute)
- Palm Mute (right hand mute)
- Harmonics
- Smacks
- Fret Position select
- Pick position select (15 points)
- Pick Noise (adjustable level)
- Fret Noise (auto)
- Release Noise (auto)
- Drop D, Drop C tuning (Solo mode)
Key Switch FXs (Solo mode)
- up to 30 assignable FXs
- 33 keys for Key Switches
- Custom Key Switch presets (save/load)
- Toggle/Temporary switch modes
Pedal/Velocity Switch FXs
- 30 assignable FXs
Modulation Wheel Switch FXs (Solo mode)
- 12 assignable FXs (including Mode Toggle)
Articulations/Techniques/FXs
Chord detect/construct system
- Up/Down strokes
- Hammer-On/Pull-Off (up to octave range)
- Hammer-On with automatic Pull-Off on key release (up to octave range)
- Legato
- Slide Legato Up/Down (up to octave range)
- Slide Up/Down (up to 2-octave range, speed adjustable)
- Slide Up/Down Trigger to/from sustaining notes (speed/range adjustable)
- Tremolo (up/down strokes, speed adjustable)
- Trill (up to octave range, speed adjustable)
- Bend auto (range, speed adjustable)
- Reverse Bend auto (range, speed adjustable)
- MonoBend (Unison Bend, lower string bend)
- Muted Strums Up/Down
- Slow Strums Up/Down
- Chucka-Chucka (barre chords muted) Up/Down, various string combinations
- Strum Speed adjustable
- Strum layers (string groups) control
- Number of strings used in strums adjustable
- FretNoise (trigger)
- Transpose, Transpose(toggle)
- Unison/Octave selection for Harmonics
- Harmonics on black Add-on keys in Bass&Pick mode
- 1-4 note piano chords to 6-voice guitar chords real-time translation
- 30 chord types recognition, including sus2, sus4, 6/9, 7th, 9th and altered chords
- 4 chord positions along the fretboard
- Slash Bass Chords option - allows to perform major/minor triads with any note in the bass
- About 2000 instant guitar chord shapes
Chord Editor (edit/change factory chord fingerings)
Pattern Manager
- Built-in multi-functional Pattern Manager letting you in no time create professionally sounding guitar accompaniment tracks
- MusicLab Guitar Pattern Library (1250 rhythm patterns covering a wide range of music styles)
- Pattern Tree view allowing to easily find/select rhythm patterns
- Pattern view, graphically presenting guitar 'Strokes' contained in the current rhythm pattern
- Auditioning selected pattern by simply pressing chord on the external keyboard without starting your host sequencer
- Total synchronization with host's tempo, start/stop, beats, loop, time signature...
- Drag'n'Drop selected pattern from Pattern window right to your host's MIDI track
- Real time pattern arranging (changing pattern performance on the fly):
- Add/reduce dynamics (velo+)
- Randomize dynamics
- Apply velocity of trigger chord to pattern dynamics
- Continuous dynamics changes (+/- velocity assigned to Pitch Bender controller)
- Controlling string layers in strums (full/upper/lower) with the input chord notes
(V4) Song mode, turning RealGuitar 4 into a powerful songwriting tool:
- Easy-to-use built-in Song Track for constructing guitar parts
- Chord Selector, allowing to quickly select and insert chords
- Import the whole chord sets directly from WEB page or Text document
- Powerful Style Filter letting you find suitable patterns by musical criteria
- Export Song Track as a Standard MIDI file to use with any third party instruments
(V4) Advanced Humanize engine, allowing you to easily add more realism to the performance with a mouse click. Randomization options:
- Sound
- Timing
- Velocity
- Pitch
Joystick mode (game controller guitar input)
MIDI Guitar mode (normal guitar via MIDI interface input)
Compatibility
- Operates as a virtual instrument software plug-in in all major hosts like Logic, Cubase, Digital Performer, Sonar, Pro Tools, Studio One
- Works as a Standalone module
System requirements
2GB+ RAM, 5GB+ free hard drive space
Windows 7 SP1/8.1/10 32bit or 64bit
VST2/VST3/AAX 32bit or 64bit host
OS X 10.6/10.7/10.8/10.9/10.10/10.11
VST2 32bit/VST3 64bit/AU 32bit or 64bit/AAX 32bit or 64bit host
AAX support: Pro Tools 10.3.9 AAX32, Pro Tools 11/12 AAX64.