I remember my friend Richard Wells, who is blind btw, using a clarinet sound on a little Yamaha MK100 to sound like a pedal steel. He edited the sound somewhat, but it was the way he played it that let him pull it off.
DonM
The last time Gordon Lightfoot played here in Cape Breton, I took two visually impaired friends to hear him.
One of them, Jim, is an exceptionally good musician, both guitar (mainly acoustic) and keyboards (arranger and piano...in fact, he has my old PSR-8000).
After several tunes, Jim turned to me and asked what brand/model of pedal steel was the steel player using.
He was quite surprised when I told him there was no pedal steel player at all...but, there was a guy playing a Yamaha DX7II, who was doing
all the pedal steel parts...and did so for the entire show.
First time I ever saw a DX-7, or any other synth, for that matter, being used exclusively as a substitute for pedal steel...or for any other type guitar.
I did hear some terrific lead guitar on a demo video done by Ronnie Foster (George Benson's keyboardist) on a Yamaha PSR-8000, and he did a pretty cool Sax simulation on a Yamaha VL-1.
That Lightfoot concert was quite revealing on how
technique can play such a major role in emulating another instrument, as the DX7II wasn't noted for it's realistic guitar sounds (it did have terrific basses).
Ian
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