We are proud to present the RealRick virtual guitar instrument with the unmistakable sound of a legendary Rickenbacker® electric guitar, which became permanently intertwined with the sound of The Beatles.

In the early 1960s Rickenbacker® history became forever wedded to one of the biggest music upheavals of the 20th century: the invasion of the mop-top Beatles from Liverpool, England. The Beatles created unprecedented, international interest in Rickenbackers.
John Lennon would own at least four models, George Harrison's double-bound 360/12 (the second one made by the company) defined a new tone at the other end of the audio spectrum. Its ringing sound embellished "You Can't Do That", "Eight Days a Week", "A Hard Day's Night", "Ticket To Ride" to name just a few. 
Jim McGuinn made the bell-like quality of its tone the foundation of the Byrds' early style. The Who's Peter Townshend, Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty, Steppenwolf's John Kay, and many other well-known 1960s guitarists became faithful Rickenbacker® users. Groups like Oasis, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, U2, and other of today's top acts include Rickenbacker® guitars in their musical arsenal. Rickenbacker® is the principal guitar of artists such as R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace, and many others. 

RealRick - sample-based virtual instrument with an innovative approach to guitar sound modeling and guitar techniques emulating on a standard MIDI keyboard.

RealRick 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. RealRick covers practically all sounds, articulations, and techniques a professional guitarist can produce on his Rickenbacker®, including mute, bridge mute, harmonics, pinch harmonics, unison bend, strumming, picking, chord chopping, scrapes, and much more... 

24-bit 96 kHz high quality dry samples recorded directly from pick-ups let you easily create any desired guitar sound using your favorite amplifier simulator.

Patches

RealRick includes 8 guitar patches:

6-string - Mono
12-string A - Mono, 3rd string pair tuned in OCTAVE
12-string B - Mono, 3rd string pair tuned in UNISON
6-string (Stereo/Double-track):

- full Stereo (emulates 'Rick-O-Sound' stereo output) when used in RealRick single output version
- double tracked patch when used in RealRick two output versions

12-string A and B (Stereo/Mono):

- main (sustain) sound is Stereo (6/6 strings split), additional sounds/noises are Mono

12-string A and B (Stereo/Double-track):

- full Stereo (emulates 'Rick-O-Sound' stereo output) when used in RealRick single output version
- double tracked patch when used in RealRick two output versions

RealRick 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...).
Guitar Rhythm Pattern technology providing powerful Pattern Manager completed with huge 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.
The unique Struminator technology letting you use alternative MIDI controller (standard Guitar Hero game controller for Sony Playstation 3 by Activision Inc.) for creating authentic guitar accompaniment parts with ease and fun. 

These technologies allow to closely emulate live guitar sound and performance, letting you create guitar parts with a whole new level of realistic expression.

Features

Chord detect/construct system

1-4 note piano chords to 6-voice guitar chords real-time translation
30 chord types recognition, including sus2, sus4, 6/9, 7th, 9th and altered chords
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

Chord Editor (edit/change factory chord fingerings)

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 easily find/select rhythm patterns
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 (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)
Controlling string layers in strums (full/upper/lower) with the input chord notes

(V4) Song mode, turning RealRick 4 into a powerful songwriting tool:

Easy-to-use built-in Song Track for constructing guitar parts
Chord Selector, allowing to quickly select and insert chords
Import the whole chord sets directly from WEB page or Text document
Powerful Style Filter letting you find suitable patterns by musical criteria
Export Song Track as a Standard MIDI file to use with any third party instruments

(V4) Advanced Humanize engine, allowing you to easily add more realism to the performance with a mouse click. Randomization options: 

Sound
Timing
Velocity
Pitch

(V4) Double Tracking configuration and patches letting you easily simulate ‘double-tracked’ guitar parts with the single MIDI input

Joystick mode (game controller guitar input)

MIDI Guitar mode (normal guitar via MIDI interface input)

RealRick bonus software

RealRick ships with IK Multimedia Amplitube Custom Shop software! AmpliTube Custom Shop is a full-featured version of AmpliTube, with 24 gear models included for recording and mixing in your favorite Mac/Win DAW or for playing on stage or practicing at home. Plus, the included Custom Shop allows you to try and buy over 200 new gear models available. You can now build your own collection of amp and effects models with a level of customization never seen before and at prices never so affordable.

System requirements

2GB+ RAM, 5GB+ free hard drive space

Windows 7 SP1/8.1/10 32bit or 64bit
VST2/VST3/AAX 32bit or 64bit host

OS X 10.6/10.7/10.8/10.9/10.10/10.11
VST2 32bit/VST3 64bit/AU 32bit or 64bit/AAX 32bit or 64bit host

AAX support: Pro Tools 10.3.9 AAX32, Pro Tools 11/12 AAX64.