I am at the end of some pretty flakey Internet at the moment so apologies for the lack of links and detail.

Music Lab have added a Rickenbacker to their real guitar series. There are 6 & 12 string versions. Not a no brainier at $199, but apparently there are discounts for existing customers.

Mmmm I thought this may have raised a bit of interest. A 12 string Rick from Orange Tree would have me really salivating but Music Lab's stuff is pretty good too.

If I didn't already have Orange Tree's, I would have jumped. Almost did when I got an email about getting Real Rick free with the purchase of any Real Guitar instrument.
 
Regards,
Dan
 

Yes, but Orange Tree's is a bass. This is a 6 and a 12 string guitar!

Got half decent internet at last.
 
Here is the link http://www.musiclab.com/products/realrick/info.html
Sound demos http://www.musiclab.com/products/realrick/audio.html Sounds pretty good to me.
 

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.
 
 RealRick includes 6 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) - full Stereo  12-string A (Stereo/Mono) - Main (sustain) sound is Stereo, additional sounds and noises are Mono  12-string B (Stereo/Mono) - Main (sustain) sound is Stereo, additional sounds and noises are Mono
 
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.

 
As an existing customer I can get it for $139.

Glyn Barnes
Mmmm I thought this may have raised a bit of interest.

It's the $199 part that made me just give it a glance and move along. 
 

Glyn Barnes
Yes, but Orange Tree's is a bass. This is a 6 and a 12 string guitar!

Ah well, I missed that part...Now I gotta go look again. :)
 
Regards,
Dan

Anybody got this? I have been playing around with the demo and I like it a lot. Unfortunatly the demo only contains the lower frets and I was wondering how good the higher notes are.
 
Adding VAT onto the existing user price pushes the cost to above a hundered pounds so I am still undecided.

I've got 3 real Ricks, so I'm gonna pass on this one.
 
I like the MapleGlo.

Too expensive for me.
 
You're right to be skeptical about the high notes, as that's where every Rick sample library I've heard falls down.
 
The sole audio demo they provide isn't a good example. There, it sounds an awful lot like the SampleTank/Infinite Player Rickenbacker 12. What use I've gotten out of that one has only been with distortion like the Musiclab demo, because the clean sounds and upper octaves lack sparkle. My mental reference is a real Rick 12 I played for many years before foolishly selling it. 
 
I'd check their resale policy before taking a chance on it.