Work great as guitar accompaniment to any kind of slow shuffle-feel song. Based on House of the Rising Sun Animals real guitar part. Feature 8-, feel strumming and plucking patterns. Feature highly accentuated phrases great for strong rhythmic background in slow and medium tempo.
Funk 56 patterns Funk 1 26 sophisticated Funk feel rhythm phrases. Complex and strongly syncopated grooves. Great for advanced Funk guitar background.
Funk 2 10 powerful Funk feel guitar riffs. Strongly syncopated and intensive 1-, 2-, 4-measure rhythm phrases. Funk 3 20 specific Funk feel phrases. Inspired by Robin Ford rhythm guitar style. Widely used by numerous contemporary guitar players. Feature strongly syncopated propulsive feel phrases. Feature 2-, 4-measure strongly accentuated and syncopated phrases.
Feature complex rhythm phrases based on 70s Funk grooves. Inspired by Peter Green background arrangements. Feature 8-, feel syncopated rhythm phrases, riffs, and fills.
Latin 68 patterns Cha-Cha 18 powerful Cha-cha style strumming patterns. Feature Latin flavored 8-,feel rhythm phrases. Samba 25 strongly syncopated modern Samba style strumming and fingerpicking patterns. Work great with any Latin oriented feel song. Feature 4 to 3 cross rhythm polymeric feeling. Endings 64 patterns A set of sophisticated guitar patterns to use as the endings of rhythm phrases or parts.
Based on Bamboleo Gipsy Kings real rhythm guitar parts. Strongly syncopated 1-, 2-, 4-measure 8-feel rhythm phrases. FlamencoPop 1 19 vigorous Pop-, Rumba-flamenco strumming patterns. Similar to FlamencoPop Style patterns but recorded in double time feel with twice smaller durations — 16th notes. Inspired by Carlos Santana rhythm guitar style. Feature Latin flavored 8-, feel strongly syncopated rhythm phrases. Romance 26 lyrical strumming and picking patterns.
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Info Features Audio Video Reviews. Try it now. Ways of using There are three ways of using RealStrat virtual instrument. 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 Stratocaster pick-ups which let you easily create any desired guitar sound using your favorite amplifier simulator. 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 RealStrat. 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.
Rhythm Patterns In order to record an authentic accompaniment track, most session guitarists carefully study characteristic rhythm parts for the required style. Realism Sophisticated humanization algorithms vary samples, technique and control parameters, timing, chord strum aspects to reach best possible realism in guitar tracks.
Making Virtual Instruments a Reality since What's New in version 5. Even more interesting is the Chromatic setting, whereby the black notes C 5 to G 5 sound one semitone down from the next-highest white note A 5 to C6 move progressively one semitone higher , leading to some very pleasing and often serendipitous chord voicings, without changing chord shape in the left hand.
Dreamy, chorused Genesis-inspired arpeggios, anyone? And finally, Harmony Mode. Six preset power-chord intervals are provided, together with the option of velocity switchable upward or downward slides with configurable velocity threshold, slide speed and range.
I unequivocally love this plug-in. The range of sounds obtainable using various amp simulators, effects and general guitar-oriented processes is seemingly endless. Techniques such as unison bends, legato fret-slides and hammer-ons, which were so difficult and time-consuming to contrive using my former methods, are a breeze and sound totally convincing now; so much so that I feel compelled to revisit a particular ongoing album project and replace all my previous guitar emulations with RealStrat — it really will make that much difference.
So does this mean that I will no longer be needing to hire the services of real guitarists? Not at all! But when push comes to shove and budgets are non-existent, I can load up RealStrat and know that the results, although a mere caricature of what a good player would provide, will be far from embarrassing.
MusicLab, the editor of RealGuitar, has released RealStrat, a virtual instrument that uses a combination of samples and in-house technology to emulate the sound and feel of the illustrious Fender model. The fundamental differences in playing techniques between keyboard and guitar have been one of the major issues whenever trying to program realistic guitar parts. You may also play in real time or program parts with sampler libraries such as Prominy, Vienna, Sonic Implants, etc.
RealStrat is the second instrument that uses this concept. At the end of the installation, you will be prompted to set the Bank Manager, which installs the library according to the specified sample rate s. The editor will send a special file by e-mail rlst. The software has three windows, the first being the instrument itself, the second gives access to the pattern library PM button , the last is dedicated to the Keyswitch settings KS button.
Functions are accessible through pull-down menus or pop-up windows. The instrument window is divided into two parts: above, the guitar neck are the various parameters and sub-windows. Setup give access to several parameters, the most important being Chord Detect Time. RealStrat also includes a well designed Wah-Wah. If you play it with the Mod Wheel or even better with an expression pedal, it works fine…. Below are settings for strumming speed, attack and release. Solo Mode. You can choose between 15 pick positions, that are a kind of compromise between the different sounds achieved by the mic selector and the place where you hit the strings.
The library is of good quality, since every note has been sampled from every fret of each string. Harmony Mode. Each mode uses a keyboard that is divided into three zones, with chord recognition and access to the six strings, the alternate notes, strums, mutes, etc. Each mode offers a Main zone between E1 and B4 , which is dedicated to chord recognition and chromatic playing, and two command zones from C0 to D 1 and from D 5 to G6 on the plug-in keyboard, but really from C-2 to D 1 and D 5 to C7 in reality.
These allow you to play with various programmed techniques: once the chord is recognized, you can trigger up and down strokes, arpeggios, different strumming according to velocity and mutes. Generally, the white keys are Repeat keys which trigger played notes or chords and black keys are Mutes. To add even more realism, almost two octaves from C-2 to A -1, called Strokes trigger extra playing techniques: various up and down-strokes, different mutes, chromaticism, etc. All you have to do is record the song harmonies and then after or simultaneously apply the various techniques.
These allocations vary according to the selected Mode. Among the most interesting, we can cite the Pitch or Mod Wheel MonoBend, where only the lower note or the first bent and held note of a chord will be modified and the Feedbacker, accessible via aftertouch, which adds the same note or its fifth on two octaves three for the fifth.
In Harmony mode, you set the interval added to the played note octave, two octaves, upper fifth, lower fourth, Power Chord 1 or 2 , with an effect triggered by velocity Slide Up or Down. In Chords, you select the desired inversion I to IV or a rendering of what you are playing on the keyboard Kbd knob.
The latter sometimes causes some unreal chord changes. You define how many strings are played from 1 to 6 and you still have the velocity triggered effect option Strum or Slide. The Solo mode is strangely enough a… polyphonic mode, which lets you play chords or melodies. The chords will sound as played on the master keyboard, but will benefit from a guitar sounding inversion if triggered by the Repeat keys.
One nice detail: to quickly check what is active or not when in KS mode, if a Keyswitch is activated, a LED is added to the corresponding key, that key becoming blue when the Keyswitch is used. Please note that the KeySwitches are available in Solo mode only. Three triggering modes are available: Toggle the KeySwitch remains active even if the key is released , Through which allows the key to act as a KeySwitch and as a Repeat Key simultaneously and Sustain which adds the sustain possibility to the KeySwitch.
MusicLab has done a great job on these features: you can activate the three modes at the same time, and the implementation has been done according to guitar playing limitations: you will not be able to do a bend on an open string or make slides from a note to another on two different strings. Another strong point is the Floating Fret Position feature. You can place a virtual capo on the first five strings right-click on the guitar neck , which is really handy when you only have a small MIDI keyboard.
If you click on the Auto button, the capo will automatically place itself according to what you are playing. Chord Mode. RealStrat perfectly analyses the chords played on a keyboard and above all places them as a guitarist would play them.
RealStrat can detect 26 chord types which are detailed in the. PDF manual, with information about mandatory and optional notes to use for correct analysis.
It works quite nicely, and the chord and note monitoring on the virtual neck big green spots helps to better understand a real guitar. Once the chord is recognized, you can play it with the Repeat keys, whose velocity determines the number of strings that are used.
With proper aftertouch, modulation and KeySwitch settings, you can make surprisingly realistic rhythmic parts, all the more so since every parameter can be automated, you can change crucial settings in real time to cover any scenario change inversion II to IV, for example. The two other modes separately handle bass and chord notes and extensions. Thus you can play folk or country or any other rhythmic figure that would hardly be convincing if directly played from a keyboard. Here, with Repeat and Unison keys, it works right away.
These MIDI files, lasting one to eight measures, send a series of notes to the Strokes, Repeat and Mutes zones, thus forming complete rhythmic parts strum, mute, arpeggio, etc. You click on PM to launch the Manager window and on Pattern if you want to activate the pattern, which starts to play as soon as you hit a chord or a note on the keyboard. These files can be used in every mode of RealStrat, since they only gather trigger events, which remain the same from one mode to another.
The result will of course be different if you are in Solo or Chords mode. The Pattern Manager interface allows you to play the file at normal speed set by the host or by a cursor in standalone , as well as double or half-speed.
You can also adjust the velocity fixed or according to the one sent by the keyboard , or assign it to the Pitch Wheel for continuous change or randomize several settings. The quality and realism of the patterns are variable, however the concept works perfectly, some rhythms are really amazing. Generally, you may regret that the quantization is a bit too stiff, meaning that you will have to tweak the trigger notes in your MIDI editor.
Of course, the main interest of this library is that you can use it in your favorite DAW. There, everything is possible. You can then modify everything, from the velocity to the quantization and change some trigger notes, and therefore playing techniques.
You can also create you own patterns by combining Repeat, Mutes and Strokes trigger notes, then import the pattern into the Pattern Manager in the specified folder. PDF manual gives the complete Strokes nomenclature as well as the complete automation implementation. Bends, mutes, repetitions, slides, hammer-ons and other playing techniques are perfectly implemented and triggered.
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