MusicLab RealEight

RealEight, 8-string electric guitar, the ideal guitar for creating lead, rhythm riff, and even bass tracks in your future rock & metal masterpieces!

RealEight was sampled using a custom, very high quality hand-made 8-string electric guitar, an instrument preferentially used for Metal and Hard Rock productions.

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

RealEight 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. RealEight 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…

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.

Features Overview:

• Incredibly deep sound covering huge 5-octave/200-fret note range!
• Ready-to-use Double-tracking and Quad-tracking with a single MIDI input!
• 30+ authentic guitar articulations and effects, featuring Mutes, Bridge Mutes, Pinch Harmonics, PowerChords, Slides, Trills, and much more…
• Easy-to-use Key/Velocity/Pedal/Mod.Wheel FX switch system.
• Advanced Humanize option adding realism to the performance, both live and step-recorded.
• Bass mode lowering the pitch of all strings to Bass guitar tuning.

Version 4 Features:

• Performance modes: Solo, Harmony, Chords, Bass&Chord, Bass&Pick, Direct modes
• Global modes: Pattern mode, Song mode, Joystick mode
• 7 string Baritone guitar tuning (F#-B-E-A-D-f#-b)
• Interval FX: 4th up, b5th up, PowerChord 3 (b5th+#4th)
• Drop Bass option in Bass&Chord, Bass&Pick, Joystick, Song modes
• MIDI output mode for Pro Tools/AAX
• 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
• Transpose, Transpose(toggle) FXs
• Unison/Octave selection added for Harmonics FX
• Strum Time range increased to 200 ms