RealRick 4 virtual guitar instrument brings the incomparable Rickenbacker Guitar sound to your studio, 6-string and 12-string!
RealRick 4 virtual instrument captures the unmistakable sound of a legendary Rickenbacker’s 360 electric guitar, which became permanently intertwined with the sound of The Beatles.

RealRick 4 is a sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar techniques emulated on a standard MIDI keyboard.

RealRick 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. RealRick covers practically all sounds, articulations, and techniques a professional guitarist can produce on his instrument, including mute, bridge mute, harmonics, pinch harmonics, unison bend, strumming, picking, chord chopping, scrapes, and much more…

RealRick 360The Rickenbacker 360 is a semi-acoustic electric guitar. It features stereo or mono output. Beside the 6-string, also the 12-string version was sampled.

24-bit 96kHz high quality dry samples recorded directly from pick-ups let you easily create any desired guitar sound using your favorite amplifier simulator.

In the early 1960s Rickenbacker速 history became forever wedded to one of the biggest music upheavals of the 20th century: the invasion of the mop-top Beatles from Liverpool, England. The Beatles created unprecedented, international interest in Rickenbackers.

John Lennon would own at least four models, George Harrison’s double-bound 360/12 (the second one made by the company) defined a new tone at the other end of the audio spectrum. Its ringing sound embellished “You Can’t Do That”, “Eight Days a Week”, “A Hard Day’s Night”, “Ticket To Ride” to name just a few.

Jim McGuinn made the bell-like quality of its tone the foundation of the Byrds’ early style. The Who’s Peter Townshend, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty, Steppenwolf’s John Kay, and many other well-known 1960s guitarists became faithful Rickenbacker速 users. Groups like Oasis, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, U2, and other of today’s top acts include Rickenbacker速 guitars in their musical arsenal. Rickenbacker速 is the principal guitar of artists such as R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, and many others.

RealRick 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!
• Sound Humanize technology allowing to wholly remove ‘machine gun’ effect on note repetition (tremolo, strumming, etc…).
• 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.
• 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 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.

NEW IN VERSION 4

• New Song mode added, a perfect songwriting tool, letting you insert chord changes and patterns for the song directly into the built-in Song Track
• Smart Chord Selector, allowing to instantly insert chords into the Song Track
• Powerful Style Filter, letting you automatically find suitable patterns in Pattern Library by musical criteria: tempo range, meter, playing technique, and rhythm feel
• Export MIDI file from Song mode
• Humanize engine with 9 parameters added
• MIDI output mode for Pro Tools/AAX added
• Double Tracking configuration and patch letting you easily simulate ‘double-tracked’ guitar part with the single MIDI input (to use this feature you must run RealStrat multi output version, ReaStrat (2 mono) or RealStrat (2 stereo) plugin, depending on mono or stereo amps/FXs you are going to use. These plugins provide 2 outs in your DAW’s mixer. In a DAW’s mixer pan each output being used, then add the amps/FXs of your choice on each channel)
• Harmonics/Pinch Harmonics on black Add-on keys added in Bass&Pick mode
• Slow Strum time slider added in Timing panel
• FretNoise automatic for repetitive notes improved
• FretNoise (trigger) FX added
• Transpose, Transpose(toggle) FXs added
• Unison/Octave selection added for Harmonics FX
• Strum Time range increased to 200 ms
• PitchBender Down -> Slide range automation added

RealRick includes these 6 guitar patches

• 6-String = Mono
• 12-String A = Mono, 3rd string pair tuned in OCTAVE
• 12-string B = Mono, 3rd string pair tuned in UNISON
• 6-string (Stereo) = full Stereo
• 12-string A (Stereo/Mono) = Main (sustain) sound is Stereo, additional sounds are Mono

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
• Pick position select (15 points)
• Pick Noise (adjustable level)
• Fret Noise (auto)
• Release Noise (auto)

Articulations/Techniques:

• Up/Down strokes
• Hammer-On (up to octave range)
• Pull-Off (up to octave range)
• Hammer-On with Pull-Off on key release (up to octave range)
• Legato
• Slide Legato Up/Down (up to octave range)
• Slide Auto Up/Down (up to 2-octave range, speed 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)
• Intervals (4th, 5th, Octave, 2 Octaves, Power Chords, etc.)
• Strums Up/Down
• 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

Effects:

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

Key Switches (Solo mode):

• 30 FXs assignable on 33 Keys
• Toggle/temporary switch modes
• Custom Key Switch presets (save/load)

Chord detect/construct system:

• 1-4 note piano chords to 6-voice guitar chords real-time translation
• 26 chord types recognition, including 7th, 9th and altered chords, played in any inversion and voicing
• 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

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 find/select rhythm patterns right from RealLPC
• 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 (dramatic 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)

What’s New in MusicLab RealRick v4.0.2.7433

• Release notes not available at the time of this post.

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