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 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 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 guitar sound you want 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.
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 using 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 using 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 proprietary technology provides accurate automatic reproduction of guitar chord voicings 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 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 the digitally modeled 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.
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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.
- 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!
