RealLPC

RealLPC virtual guitar instrument brings the incomparable Les Paul Custom Guitar sound to your studio.
RealLPC 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. RealLPC covers practically all sounds, articulations, and techniques a professional guitarist can produce on his Les Paul, including mute, bridge mute, harmonics, pinch harmonics, unison bend, strumming, picking, chord chopping, scrapes, and much more...

RealLPC - sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar techniques emulating on a standard MIDI keyboard. High quality dry samples recorded directly from Les Paul Custom pick-ups let you easily create any desired guitar sound using your favourite amplifier simulator.

Gibson´s Les Paul® Custom, a higher end variation of the Gibson Les Paul guitar has been used by the majority of world famous musicians, spanning generations and genres, such as Wes Montgomery, Al Di Meola, Pat Metheny, Chuck Berry, Jeff Back, Peter Frampton, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, B.B.King, Bob Marley, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Gary Moore, Eddie Van Halen, Lenny Kravitz, and many others.

RealLPC 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!
• 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, Aftertouch
• Sound Humanize technology allowing to wholly reduce ´machine gun´ effect on note repetition (tremolo, strumming, plucking, etc...)
• RealLPC is equipped with powerful Pattern Manager containing complete 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 

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

RealLPC bonus software:
RealLPC ships with IK Multimedia AmpliTube 3 Custom Shop software, which is a complete guitar amp modeling solution and effects powerhouse with ultra accurate models of the most sought after gear.

Video Demos

	Live by Jeff Abbott
	Free Tutorial 1
	Free Tutorial 2

More infos

Systemrequirements

PC

• Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 (32Bit and 64Bit)
• Pentium 4 / 2 GHz (Intel Core 2 Duo recommended),)
• VST 2/DXi host

Mac

• OSX 10.4, 10.5 (32Bit), 10.6 or higher (32Bit and 64Bit)
• G4/G5 1GHz+ (Intel Core 2 Duo recommended)
• VST 2/AU host

for all systems

• Free hard drive space 2GB+
• 1GB RAM (2GB recommended)
• DVD Drive
• RTAS support is available in ProTools 6/7/8 via FXpansion´s VST to RTAS adapter 1/2
• Internet connection and e-mail account for authorizing the software

Product activation:
An internet connection on any computer is required to authorize / activate the product (Challenge/Response).

Reviews

Keyboard Player, Issue 350

Tony Cliff picks his way round MusicLab’s top-class trio of virtual guitars: RealGuitar 2L, RealStrat ans RealLPC, all priced around £160.

RealGuitar 2L
The guitar samples used this instrument are all acoustic guitars and after launching the program you must load your guitar of choice before you can hear any sounds. There are two different acoustic steel string guitars and each either picked or fingered, an acoustic nylon-stringed guitar (again picked or fingered), acoustic 12-string, and finally a particularly impressive stereo-sampled guitar. The sounds are all very convincing and include finger noise just as you would have when playing and releasing the strings of a real acoustic guitar.

The Solo mode is clearly designed for playing solo lead guitar figures and you can also set up various trigger keys to change the sound to a harmonic, slide, tremolo and so on to add even more realism to your guitar sound. Harmony Mode is set to play intervals such as 4th and 5th or octaves and power chords. The last three categories: Chords, Bass Chord and Bass & Pick are where things become more interesting. Basically there are various zones across your keyboard for either playing chords or strumming and picking notes. With a little experimentation and practice you can play the chords with one hand and strum or achieve a muted strum effect with the other hand. This is a very natural way of playing and for anyone used to quickly playing chords with the left hand, such as most keyboard players, then the right hand can set the guitar strum rhythms.

If you are not so happy playing in your own strumming patterns then you also have access to the Pattern Manager which is a collection of 1250 guitar accompaniment rhythm styles all categorised for easy selection. Once again it is very simply to assign two MIDI tracks to your RealGuitar performance, one for the required chords and then simply adding your selected patterns from the Pattern Manager to the other. Naturally everything will automatically synch to the tempo of your DAW software so that is not a problem. The patterns are very convincing and make full use of the capabilities of the program.

RealStrat and RealLPC
As I mentioned before if you have mastered the basic techniques for RealGuitar then you will very quickly adapt to these other instruments as they operate in a broadly similar manner. In these cases the interface you are presented when you call up the instrument is either a Fender Stratocaster or Gibson Les Paul Custom with the fretboard lighting up illustrating the notes or chords just as in RealGuitar.
I am pleased to recommend these products wholeheartedly and feel that if you wish to achieve realistic guitar recordings, and do not have a competent guitarist on hand, then they offer your solution and ideally it is good to have both an acoustic and an electric model.