RealEight 6

Virtuelle, 8-saitige Elektro-Gitarre
RealEight is the ideal guitar for creating lead, rhythm riff, and even bass tracks in your rock and metal masterpieces! This virtual guitar provides incredible playability based on an 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, and more! Due to 24-bit high quality dry samples which were recorded directly from the pick-ups, you can easily create any desired guitar sound using your favorite amp simulator.

Overview

• Incredibly deep sound covering huge 5-octave note range (8 strings, 24 frets, drop E tuning, expandable to drop B tuning).
  
• Multi-channel layering technology, incorporating a custom library of specially recorded samples taken from every fret of all 8 strings of a real guitar.
  
• Floating Fret Position technology, which imitates change of fret position of a guitarist's hand on the neck. This gives you the possibility of playing on up to 200 guitar frets using just 60 keys of a standard keyboard!
  
• Ready-to-use Double Track and Quad Track patches with a single MIDI input.
  
• Standard and Baritone guitar tunings
  
• Bass mode: drops pitch to 8-string bass guitar tuning, letting you produce bass parts as well.
  
• The original Guitar Touch technology letting you easily imitate basic guitar techniques (strumming, plucking, sliding, bending, muting, etc..), using standard MIDI keyboard and MIDI controllers, such as Pitch Bender, Modulation Wheel, Sustain Pedal, Aftertouch.
  
• Advanced Humanize section allowing to add realism to the performance both live and step-recorded in a MIDI track.
  
• Guitar Rhythm Pattern technology providing powerful Pattern Manager completed with huge MusicLab Guitar Pattern Library for easily creating guitar accompaniment tracks. All you have to do is to find the appropriate rhythm pattern(s) in the Pattern Manager tree view, copy it to the needed number of measures, start your sequencer and use MIDI keyboard to play chord changes, or alternatively add chords to a MIDI track via sequencer's editor.
  
• Song Mode turning RealEight 6 into a powerful and easy-to-use songwriting tool allowing you in no time create perfect guitar backing tracks for your songs. Simply insert chord symbols and rhythm patterns into the built-in Song Track - and your guitar part is ready!