Steel guitar or lap steel guitar

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fredtbx
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2008/05/13 13:23:43 (permalink)

Steel guitar or lap steel guitar

Hi,

Does anyone know of a good steel guitar vi such as heard in country songs. The regular guitar vi's don't cut it for me.

Thanks,
Fred
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    kwgm
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    RE: Steel guitar or lap steel guitar 2008/05/13 17:33:19 (permalink)
    No, I don't know of any. There's a patch on a roland synth of mine, but it doesn't cut it, either. The sound is probably all in the amp -- you might try piping a telecaster double pickup sound through a good amp simulator. Then lay on the pitch wheel for the slide. What's hard to do are the kind of single note slides one can do with a pedal steel -- requires a little finessing of the control track to bend one note while the other two stay centered on a pitch, all with a light vibrato going.

    Maybe that's one reason why I haven't seen a ped.steel vsti to date.


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    mose
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    RE: Steel guitar or lap steel guitar 2008/05/13 22:51:36 (permalink)
    Band in a Box has a steel guitar.

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    lawapa
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    RE: Steel guitar or lap steel guitar 2008/05/13 23:37:21 (permalink)
    SampleHeads has WHOLE LOTTA COUNTRY. Which does include a pedal steel guitar. Sony has a set of loops which can be useful if sequencing a steel seems to tricky.

    I have the sf2 sample heads set. That can be coverted to sfz if you so desire to use that in Dimension.
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    Guitarhacker
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    RE: Steel guitar or lap steel guitar 2008/05/14 08:14:06 (permalink)
    It would be cool to see a pedal steel VST..but I'm thinking that would have to be a hard thing to do. With the pedals & levers, a steel can play some astounding things. That would be hard to duplicate in a VST accurately.

    If anyone knows of a free vst for pedal steel, please post or PM me with the link. I'd like to check it out.

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    tparker24
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    RE: Steel guitar or lap steel guitar 2008/05/19 10:33:25 (permalink)
    Here's a post I made in another Pedal Steel thread, where I mention a soundfont I liked. - Tom
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