RealStrat 4

MusicLab RealStrat v4.0.0.7231 [PC/MAC]

What's New in Version 4

Fender Stratocaster is the most popular electric guitar from 50s till nowadays. It has been used by many leading guitarists, and thus can be heard on many historic recordings.

RealStrat — sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar techniques emulating on a standard MIDI keyboard.

RealStrat provides incredible playability based on the unique performance modes and 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. RealStrat covers practically all sounds, articulations, and techniques a professional guitarist can produce on his Strat, including mute, bridge mute, harmonics, pinch harmonics, slap, unison bend, strumming, picking, chord chopping, scrapes, etc...

High quality dry samples recorded directly from Stratocaster pick-ups let you easily create any desired guitar sound using your favourite amplifier simulator.

RealStrat innovations:

• Multi-channel layering technology, incorporating a custom library of specially recorded samples taken from every fret of all 6 strings of a real guitar.
• The unique 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 140 guitar frets using just 46 keys of a standard keyboard!
• Our 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, and Aftertouch.
• Sound Humanize technology allowing to wholly remove 'machine gun' effect on note repetition (tremolo, strumming, etc…).
• 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.
• The unique Struminator technology letting you use alternative MIDI controller (standard Guitar Hero game controller for Sony Playstation 3 by Activision Inc.) for creating authentic guitar accompaniment parts with ease and fun.

These technologies allow to closely emulate live guitar sound and performance, letting you create guitar parts with a whole new level of realistic expression.

Features

Performance modes

• Solo, Harmony, Chords, Bass&Chord, Bass&Pick, Direct

Sounds

• Full length (recorded with full attack and sustain)
• Muted (fret hand mute)
• Bridge Mute (palm mute)
• Harmonics (Artificial)
• Pinch Harmonics
• Scrapes
• Slap w/Slap noises
• Fret Position select
• Pick position select (15 points)
• Pick Noise (adjustable level)
• Fret Noise (auto)
• Release Noise (auto)
• Drop C tuning (Solo mode)

Sound Effects

• Violining (volume swell)
• Sustainer (sound swell)
• FeedBacker (harmonic feedback)
• Wah-Wah (MIDI CC control, Auto, Modulation)

Key Pedal/Velocity Switches (Solo mode)

• up to 31 assignable FXs
• 33 keys for Key Switches
• Toggle/temporary switch modes
• Custom Key Switch presets (save/load)

Modulation Wheel Switch (Solo mode)

• 12 assignable FXs (including Mode Toggle)

Articulations/Techniques/FXs

• Up/Down strokes
• Hammer-On/Pull-Off (up to octave range)
• Hammer-On with Pull-Off on key release (up to octave range)
• Tapping
• 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, tempo sync)
• Trill (up to octave range, speed adjustable, tempo sync)
• 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
• Attack/Release time ajustable
• 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

Chord detect/construct system

• 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 RealStrat 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

(V4) Double Tracking configuration and patch letting you easily simulate ‘double-tracked’ guitar part with the single MIDI input

Joystick mode (game controller guitar input)

MIDI Guitar mode (normal guitar via MIDI interface input)

RealStrat bonus software

RealStrat ships with IK Multimedia Amplitube Custom Shop software! AmpliTube Custom Shop is a full-featured version of AmpliTube, with 24 gear models included for recording and mixing in your favorite Mac/Win DAW or for playing on stage or practicing at home. Plus, the included Custom Shop allows you to try and buy over 200 new gear models available. You can now build your own collection of amp and effects models with a level of customization never seen before and at prices never so affordable.