Originally posted by Scottyee:
Very NICE, especially the keyboard emulation(?) of pedal steel playing . . . Wow! As far as super articulation pedal steel voice on the Tyros2, yes it's allows you to use the pitch bend wheel to trigger bending only the lowest note in a chord, to more accurately authenticate the sound of real pedal steel guitar playing. Works especially well on ballads. Though I've got absolutely no experience playing a pedal steel, I may work up the courage to share a tune on the Tyros2 utilizing pedal steel guitar. Hey, it's been my lifelong (closeted) dream to learn to play the pedal steel and work in a Country band. With the Tyros2, I guess I might be able to at least half fullfill that fantasy. FAEbGBD, thanks in advance for sharing any tips you might offer on pedal steel playing on the keyboard. - Scott 
Well, don't know how much help i can be about playing pedal steel live on keyboard, but here are my sequencing tips and observations, a reposting of a reply I made at the Fantomized site.
"Rollinsmth, you're pretty dead on with your guess. I actually used 2 tracks for pedal steel. Then used the pitchbend stick on the keyboard to bend one note
and leave another, or bend 1 note a half step and another note a full step, etc. A few things are crucial.
1. Think like a steel player; know what licks are legitimate and what licks a real steel player wouldn't play.
2. Get to where you can judge distance on the pitchbend really well in both directions so you can bend up or down a half step accurately.
3. Syncronize your mind. When 2 notes are bending at once, you've got to try to match the bend timing as closely as possible so that it sounds like 1 fluid
movement and not disjointed like it was actually played on 2 tracks, even though it was.
4. Tight editing. There are times when you've only got a split second to get your pitchbender back at 0 in order to start the next bend. It might be easier
to set up 3 tracks so you have another track to do the weird stuff that will come up, but I didn't.
I'm also going to experiment with setting up a control expression pedal on pitch, so I can do larger slides, like a fifth or so. I need to figure out whether
the samples start sounding really artificial if you try to bend them that far. As it is now I have to think of licks that don't bend more than 2 holesteps
per line as that is all the flexibility I have on the pitchbend. I'm also going to use the expression pedal for volume and see how I can do on some nice
swells like in a ballad situation. Should be interesting."
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