Real Guitar 3: A Virtual Instrument for Realistic Guitar Sounds
Are you looking for a way to create realistic guitar sounds for your music production? Do you want to play solo and accompaniment guitar parts with your MIDI keyboard or DAW? If so, you may be interested in Real Guitar 3, a sample-based virtual instrument by MusicLab that simulates various types of acoustic and electric guitars.
In this article, we will review the features, sounds, and techniques of Real Guitar 3, and show you how you can use it to create authentic guitar tracks for your songs.
What is Real Guitar 3?
Real Guitar 3 is a virtual instrument that models the sound and behavior of different guitars, such as steel string, nylon string, 12 string, archtop, and more. You can play it with your MIDI keyboard or use the built-in patterns and chords to create realistic guitar tracks.
Real Guitar 3 has an innovative approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar part performing on keyboard. It uses high quality samples of each fret of all acoustic guitar strings, as well as other guitar-specific sounds and noises with dynamics and nuances. It also simulates various guitar techniques, such as strumming, fingerpicking, slide, hammer-on, pull-off, mute, harmonics, and more.
Real Guitar 3 is compatible with Windows and Mac OS X, and it works with most DAWs that support VST, AU, or AAX formats. You can download a free trial version from MusicLab’s website and try it out for yourself.
What are the features of Real Guitar 3?
Real Guitar 3 has many features that make it stand out from other guitar plugins. Here are some of them:
- Real Guitar 3 is a combo of two instruments: Real Guitar Classic â all of the original guitar models with loads of new features, and Real Guitar Steel String â the debut of new guitar sample set with five patches and three tunings for each.
- Real Guitar 3 has an intuitive keyboard layout that allows live/MIDI keyboard performance with numerous articulations, noises, guitar-specific tricks, strumming and finger picking techniques. You can also switch between different playing modes, such as solo, harmony, bass&chord, bass&pick, etc.
- Real Guitar 3 has a built-in song sequencer that allows you to arrange up to the entire song by simply inserting chord symbols and selecting pre-recorded guitar rhythm patterns. You can also edit the patterns or create your own ones.
- Real Guitar 3 supports external guitar FX processors which are important to create a realistic guitar part. It comes with more than two hundred authentic presets that emulate the guitar tones used in most popular songs played by greatest guitarists. You can also use your own FX plugins or hardware units.
- Real Guitar 3 has a guitar chord voicing feature that reproduces the unique sound of each guitar depending on its construction and tuning. You can also adjust the sound of each string individually, change the tuning, add effects such as reverb and chorus, and use the humanize function to add natural variations to your playing.
How to use Real Guitar 3?
There are three ways of using Real Guitar 3 virtual instrument:
- You can play it live with your MIDI keyboard or controller. You can use special gestures, key switches, key velocity, modulation wheel, sustain pedal, key aftertouch, MIDI CC, DAW parameter automation, and any combinations of these to control the sound and techniques of Real Guitar 3.
- You can record or program your guitar performance in a MIDI track of your DAW. You can edit the MIDI data or use quantization and groove templates to fine-tune your performance.
- You can use the built-in song sequencer to arrange up to the entire song by simply inserting chord symbols and selecting pre-recorded guitar rhythm patterns. You can also edit the patterns or create your own ones.
In any case, you can combine Real Guitar 3 with an external FX processor to add more realism and variety to your guitar sound. You can also process each string separately with your DAW’s