MusicLab RealTele (Digital product)

The Best Guitars Have Scars

RealTele is inspired by the iconic guitar that revolutionized music - the world's first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar. After seven decades, its distinctive voice remains bright, open, and articulate, delivering a unique snap and bite that is unmatched. This instrument has shaped genres from blues, thanks to Muddy Waters, to rock, as exemplified by Keith Richards. Our goal was to capture that legendary character.

We recorded RealTele as a living instrument, embracing its imperfections: string buzz, percussive attack, and the raw details that differentiate an instrument with a story from one that merely sounds correct. With twelve velocity layers per fret and a middle-position tone that reflects real pickup interaction, we ensure every nuance is preserved.

Two Sides of a Legend

RealTele offers two distinct instruments derived from the same legendary design, effectively giving you two guitars in one. One version emphasizes air and character, while the other focuses on weight and clarity, covering a wide range of tones from vintage sparkle to modern drive.

RealTele Classic embodies the golden-era sound with an open, ringing top end, signature bridge-pickup snap, and a slightly scooped midrange that enhances clarity. This version captures the essence of country twang, classic blues, and the rock 'n' roll sound that defined the '50s through the '70s, making it expressive and dynamic for any track.

RealTele Modern reworks the classic for contemporary production, featuring a smoother top end and fuller low mids. It maintains articulate clarity under high gain while providing a rounder, calmer tone for clean parts. This version is perfect for rock, pop, and heavier genres, ensuring your sound locks into a dense mix.

What Makes RealTele Different

• 12 Sample Layers per Fret: Each fret is recorded with twelve dynamic layers, capturing a wide range of playing styles.
• Dynamic Control: The Velo tab displays which layer is active, allowing you to customize your playing experience.
• Authentic Middle Position: The middle pickup position is captured as its own unique tone, reflecting the natural interaction of the pickups.
• Real Tone Knob: A high-frequency filter that mimics a physical guitar's tone control, shaping your sound effectively.
• New Strumming Engine: Our innovative strumming engine provides smoother chord transitions and more natural timing.

Where RealTele Fits

RealTele is ideal for musicians who play keys but need authentic electric guitar sounds without a guitarist. Whether you're writing and producing in a DAW, performing live, or working within the Telecaster's genres, this instrument delivers the sound you need.

For guitarists, RealTele offers a quick way to lay down parts faster than traditional mic setups, ensuring you capture your ideas without delay.

Preset Library

The sound of RealTele is only half the equation; the other half comes from the amp and effects. Our preset library features 350 ready-to-use tones inspired by legendary players and records, each a complete rig that can be accessed with a single click. This library continues to grow, providing endless possibilities for your sound.

Techniques and Control

To achieve authentic guitar parts, RealTele incorporates various guitar-specific techniques that can be controlled through gestures, key switches, and MIDI parameters, ensuring a realistic performance.

Chord Voicing

Our patented technology accurately reproduces guitar chord voicing for 30 chord types, allowing for authentic-sounding chordal parts.

Rhythm Patterns

With a library of 1,250 rhythm patterns, RealTele enables quick creation of guitar accompaniment tracks, perfect for any style.

Realism

Advanced humanization algorithms enhance realism by varying samples, timing, and strum techniques, bringing your digital guitar performance closer to an analog recording.

Summary

RealTele and all MusicLab Virtual Guitars stand out as the best in the industry, offering convenience and a wealth of features for musicians of all levels. Whether you're a beginner, a professional, or a producer, our products meet all your virtual guitar needs.

Features

• High-quality guitar samples
• Comprehensive sampling of all 6 strings across every fret
• Multiple performance modes
• Recognition of 30 chord types, including various extensions
• Customizable chord positions along the fretboard
• Slash Bass Chords option for versatile bass notes
• Approximately 2000 instant guitar chord shapes
• Easy editing of factory chord fingerings
• Custom chord banks creation
• Sound, timing, velocity, and pitch randomization
• Built-in Song Track for constructing guitar parts
• Powerful Style Filter for finding suitable patterns
• Quick chord selection with the Chord Selector
• Import/export chord sets from web pages or documents
• Export Song Track as a MIDI file
• Advanced Humanize engine for added realism
• 1250 guitar rhythm patterns across various styles
• Pattern Tree view for easy navigation
• Graphical representation of guitar strokes in patterns
• Auditioning patterns with external keyboard
• Full synchronization with host's tempo and settings
• Drag and drop patterns into your MIDI track
• Various performance techniques including volume swells and strumming controls
• Support for external VST3 guitar FX processors
• Over 350 presets for Guitarix.vst virtual guitar amp
• Comprehensive settings management for guitar and FX processors
• And much more!