MusicLabs RealLPC (Les Paul Custom)

RealLPC is a sample-based virtual instrument with an approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar techniques emulating on a standard MIDI keyboard. RealLPC provides playability based on the performance modes and keyboard layout as well as the key/pedal/velocity switch system allowing a keyboardist to perform guitar parts with “a whole new level of realistic expression, ” according to the company.

RealLPC is designed to cover practically all sounds, articulations, and techniques a professional guitarist can produce on their Les Paul, including mute, bridge mute, harmonics, pinch harmonics, unison bend, strumming, picking, chord chopping, scrapes, and more.

RealLPC 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.

• 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):

o Add/reduce dynamics (velo+).
o Randomize dynamics.
o Apply velocity of trigger chord to pattern dynamics.
o Continuous dynamics changes (+/- velocity assigned to Pitch Bender controller).

Bonus Software: RealLPC (downloadable and retail) ships with IK Multimedia Amplitube 2 DUO software, a special limited version of AmpliTube 2, IK’s complete guitar amp modeling solution.

Pricing & Availability
RealLPC has an MSRP of $249 and is available for Windows and Mac OS X in stand-alone and VST, AU and DX instrument plug-in formats both as retail and downloadable (200MB each installer – Mac/Win) versions.

Retail version includes printed manuals in German, English and Japanese languages.

RealLPC retail/special price details:

• Retail price of RealLPC is $249.00.

• Special price for registered owners of RealGuitar or RealStrat is $199.00.

• Special price for registered owners of RealGuitar and RealStrat is $169.00.