RealGuitar Explained®
Chapter 1 : MIDI Keyboard Global Mode
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1:53 Introduction
Discover what RealGuitar is all about.
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6:29 Fretboard & Keyboard
Learn to control the guitar fretboard position automatically or manually.
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3:38 Velocity Switch Effects
Explore some of the various playing articulations available via velocity switching.
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5:57 Permanent Effects
See how to switch the default articulation and capo behavior used, and how to work with the legato, hammer on, and bass zone controls.
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5:00 Sustain Pedal & Mod Wheel Effects
Learn to assign and control alternate articulations via the sustain pedal and the mod wheel.
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4:18 Key Switch Effects
See how key switch notes are assigned, saved, and used to trigger alternate playing styles.
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4:24 MIDI Controller Pane
Learn how to set velocity response, pitch bend, mod wheel, after touch, and hold behavior.
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3:23 Harmony Mode
Hear how this monophonic mode is used to trigger a preset interval in conjunction with a velocity based playing style variation.
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5:52 Chords Mode
Explore the chord detection and voicing algorithms, and see how to control which strings are used in the harmonies that are generated.
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3:03 The Chord Editor
Learn how to customize factory chords with custom fingerings and save them for future use.
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3:22 Bass & Chord Mode
This algorithm detects chords form the main zone, where only the bass notes sound, and maps the strummed chords to the repeat zones.
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6:13 Bass & Pick Mode
In this mode, repeat zone keys trigger each voice of the chord separately, just as if you'd play it string by string on a real guitar.
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4:17 Main Controls
See how the Output, Tune, Setup, Timing, Mixer, Audio FX, and Accent controls work.
Chapter 2 : Pattern Global Mode
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4:37 Intro to Pattern Global Mode
See how the Pattern Library and Pattern Manager are used to load rhythmic patterns into Real Guitar
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5:14 Working With Patterns
Learn to edit the velocities of the rhythmic patterns, and see how to bring them into your DAW.
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4:02 Creating Custom Patterns
Learn how to organize existing patterns into new Styles, and how to modify and save custom patterns.
Chapter 3 : Song Global Mode
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3:45 Song Global Mode
Learn how to create parts by working with the Pattern Library Browser and the Pattern Track in Song Global Mode
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4:47 Working With Chords
Discover how to create, place, edit, and save custom chords for use in the Pattern Track.
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5:12 Timeline & Playback Controls
Learn how to navigate the Song Track's timeline, and how to control, offset, and randomize various playback parameters.
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2:38 Other Modes
Learn how MIDI Guitar Global Mode and Direct Global Modes work, and see how to save and load global presets.
Product Overview
MusicLab’s RealGuitar is one of the most comprehensive acoustic guitar software instruments available, and VI expert Eli Krantzberg digs through this in-depth video tutorial series like no other author can, revealing all it’s features and functions, as well as creative uses.
Eli begins with a thorough introduction to the power of RealGuitar and then dives into the MIDI Keyboard Global mode. Exploring the virtual fretboard and keyboard is next, and Eli then shows you how to access various playing articulations via velocity switching.
Moving on, Eli demonstrates how to assign and control alternate articulations via the sustain pedal and mod wheel of your keyboard, and how to assign and access articulations via key switching.
Eli then investigates the MIDI Controller Pane, showing you how to set velocity response, pitch bend, mod wheel, aftertouch, and hold behavior. With your controller configured, it’s time to learn about the different modes and editors.
Eli demonstrates Harmony Mode, Chord mode, Bass & Chord, and Bass & Pick modes and delves into the Chord Editor, showing you how to customize the factory chords with custom fingerings. How to use the Main Controls such as Output, Tune, Setup, Timing, Mixer, Audio FX, and Accent are also all revealed.
Next up, is a demonstration of some of the other powerful modes. In Pattern Global Mode, Eli teaches you how to combine everything that you’ve learned to create and save patterns with the Pattern Library and Pattern Manager. Then you’ll discover the Song Global Mode, and create parts and entire songs from your patterns in the Pattern Library.
Wrapping it up, Eli demonstrates two additional modes, MIDI Guitar Global Mode, and Direct Global Mode. Whether you’re new to RealGuitar or have played with it for a while, watch “RealGuitar Explained” and see what a real guitar sound can do for your tracks today!
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Reviews
Submitted 1 month ago
Real Guitar
Both the songwriting aspects and insight into the Real Guitar software were most helpful and informative. Much of it would have been incomprehensible to me without your tuition. Thank you????
I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Mixcraft
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 3 months ago
Very helpful for keyboard players
I purchased the RealGuitar and RealStrat plugins and was very excited to use them... only one problem, I am not a guitar player. Once you get used to stopping your left hand from playing the bass notes and thinking about guitar effects it gets much easier and you sound a lot better. These videos will help every keyboard play beat your left hand into submission!
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 7 months ago
Very good tutor
The videos are ok. I didn't know there was an option to download them. Now I can study properly rather than viewing them online.
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 8 months ago
Very helpfull
Eli is my favorite instructor
I am a: Hobbyist, Cubase
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 1 year ago
Nice explanation
In depth explanation
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 1 year ago
????????????
have been using real guitar for years and found so many features i had not even dreamed of !! amazing !!
I am a: Professional, Musician, Producer, Sound for Film/TV, Digital Performer
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 1 year ago
All access is +++!
I am able to review when needed and I have access to more content than I can get to.
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 3 years ago
Consise Walkthrough on Features and Functions
This is not a video showing how to "make the best of a virtual instrument", in fact, the samples/examples presented by the tutor don't sound like anything you would want to pay money for. This is actually the only let-down I can name for these videos since otherwise, they are just a perfect "library" of learning where everything sits and how it works.
The lecturer shows every function in context, demonstrates its (technical) use and shows interaction where necessary. Videos are short, on the spot, flawless to understand, well edited.
Note: This only covers an older version of Real Guitar, the most recent version is not discussed.
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Access to Videos
Submitted 3 years ago
Excellent!
While the expansive features offered in RealGuitar are what make it a great product, the learning curve has been slow for me with much trial and error and searches through the pdf manual. Krantzberg clearly has a capable understanding of this program and presents his tutorials in a concise, yet easy, manner. This is not an amateur presentation but rather a professional tutorial that is more than worth the price!
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 3 years ago
Very Helpful
Was not fully confident on touching all the buttons in RealGuitar but these guides have helped.
I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Logic Pro
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Reviews
Submitted 1 month ago
Real Guitar
Both the songwriting aspects and insight into the Real Guitar software were most helpful and informative. Much of it would have been incomprehensible to me without your tuition. Thank you????
I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Mixcraft
Submitted 3 months ago
Very helpful for keyboard players
I purchased the RealGuitar and RealStrat plugins and was very excited to use them... only one problem, I am not a guitar player. Once you get used to stopping your left hand from playing the bass notes and thinking about guitar effects it gets much easier and you sound a lot better. These videos will help every keyboard play beat your left hand into submission!
Submitted 7 months ago
Very good tutor
The videos are ok. I didn't know there was an option to download them. Now I can study properly rather than viewing them online.
Submitted 8 months ago
Very helpfull
Eli is my favorite instructor
I am a: Hobbyist, Cubase
Submitted 1 year ago
Nice explanation
In depth explanation
Submitted 1 year ago
????????????
have been using real guitar for years and found so many features i had not even dreamed of !! amazing !!
I am a: Professional, Musician, Producer, Sound for Film/TV, Digital Performer
Submitted 1 year ago
All access is +++!
I am able to review when needed and I have access to more content than I can get to.
Submitted 3 years ago
Consise Walkthrough on Features and Functions
This is not a video showing how to "make the best of a virtual instrument", in fact, the samples/examples presented by the tutor don't sound like anything you would want to pay money for. This is actually the only let-down I can name for these videos since otherwise, they are just a perfect "library" of learning where everything sits and how it works.
The lecturer shows every function in context, demonstrates its (technical) use and shows interaction where necessary. Videos are short, on the spot, flawless to understand, well edited.
Note: This only covers an older version of Real Guitar, the most recent version is not discussed.
Submitted 3 years ago
Excellent!
While the expansive features offered in RealGuitar are what make it a great product, the learning curve has been slow for me with much trial and error and searches through the pdf manual. Krantzberg clearly has a capable understanding of this program and presents his tutorials in a concise, yet easy, manner. This is not an amateur presentation but rather a professional tutorial that is more than worth the price!
Submitted 3 years ago
Very Helpful
Was not fully confident on touching all the buttons in RealGuitar but these guides have helped.
I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Logic Pro
1. When did you start dabbling in music?
I started playing drums in high school at age fourteen. Like most kids my age around then, I was into progressive rock. Genesis, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and Yes. They rocked my world. A few short years later though, my musical life changed. While studying music in college I discovered Charlie Parker, Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt, and John Coltrane. Milt Jackson spoke to me in such a profound way that it left me no choice but to take up vibraphone.
These great players, along with drummers like Philly Joe Jones, Max Roach, Art Blakey, and Elvin Jones changed not only the way I thought about drumming, but also music - and by extension, life - as a whole. I realized life was meant to be a creative endeavor. The idea of improvising based on a loose set of guidelines and rules permeated into my psyche even when I wasn't holding a pair of drumsticks or mallets. But if I am going to be perfectly truthful, I have to hold Henry Miller and Woody Allen equally responsible for shaping the way I view and experience the world around me.
2. What training have you had?
I am currently an Apple certified Logic Pro. Young and cocky, and armed with only a partial University degree, I dropped out of school and began playing steady commercial hotel engagements and jazz gigs when I could. This went on for many years until I decided it was time to complete my degree - which I ultimately did with a major in Political Science and a minor in music.
It was at this point that I formed my current band Nightshift. We are going in to our twenty third year now - playing commercial one nighters like weddings, corporate events, etc. Don't turn your nose up at it though - it has allowed me a wonderful quality of life. It gave me the freedom to go back to school and complete a post graduate degree in Communications Studies - all the while supporting myself by playing weddings.
3. When did you get into recording?
It was in this graduate program - in the early nineties - that I found myself drawn to the fledgling emerging universe of hard disc recording and midi sequencing. Based on nothing more than the recommendation of one of my band mates who had an old Atari, I jumped in head first and bought a Mac LC ll, along with a version 1.1 of what was then Notator Logic. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But, in hindsight, it was a decision of epic importance in my life - shaping my future as much as the music of Milt Jackson and Charlie Parker did fifteen years prior.
I opened up my own commercial home studio in 1998 and began doing a variety of projects, working on radio jingles, artist CD projects, and whatever came my way. A couple of years later a colleague called me up - desperate. He was working at a post production house and one of the editors had just quit. They were doing audio post for a weekly TV series and needed a Pro Tools editor - and fast! And so, once again, I jumped in head first into what would ultimately open up my world even more - the world of Pro Tools.
4. People you have worked with/for?
Focusing on Logic, I built up a small but loyal client base and my phone kept ringing for Logic tech support and instruction. Film composers and studio owners all over the city were calling me. Even the music stores were giving out my phone number at this point! This kind of stuff becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. The more of it you do, the more calls you get to keep doing it. At least that's the way it should be!
As my Logic chops kept growing, I was hired by an old buddy of mine, Len Sasso, who was then an associate editor at Electronic Musician magazine, and began writing some columns for them. I had a blast doing them - and really learned to focus and express my thoughts in a concise and clear manner. This lead to a collaboration with LA based composer Terry Michael Huud on the 2006 film called Civic Duty - which was certainly one of the highlights of my professional life as a composer.
5. Why are you so good at training people?
I wake up every day excited to boot up, and create. Whether it's instructional videos, creating music, working with a studio client, performing with my band, or teaching at the schools - my days are filled with what I love doing. Enriched by the stimulation and creative freedom this modern music making software brings to my life. I bring that excitement and passion to each and every training product I create. My years of experience both using and teaching these programs has taught me the best way to make the user comfortable with these complex programs.
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The lecturer shows every function in context, demonstrates its (technical) use and shows interaction where necessary. Videos are short, on the spot, flawless to understand, well edited.
Note: This only covers an older version of Real Guitar, the most recent version is not discussed.