I like country music very much, and I need a Vst instrument that emulates a pedal steel.
Anyone can help me???
Thank you in advance

From my musical output, it's odd that I enjoy C&W too - but that and Rockabilly are my personal faves. And I do love the sound of a pedal steel!

Sadly, there's not many VST things I know of that embody this instrument. Ethnosphere does have a good Pedal Steel on board, but requires MIDI CC# adjustment in order to play it realistically. If you're apt with that stuff, check out www.soundburst.com for it. And next best is maybe some patches for NI's FM7, which can emulate the tone of a pedal steel very well. It's a bugger to program your own - but keep your eyes peeled here, and at Patch Arena et al. You may come across someone that made a great patch.

And that's about it for me and my noggin'.

Keeping in mind Steven's comments about use of MIDI CC#s, there's also a very good Pedal Steel in Sonic Reality's Guitar Collection (SampleTank).

Don't laugh but I have got some very padal-steel type tones out of Meta4.. Find it at http://www.krakli.co.uk

Oh that's right Ian! Not bad tones either.

And like Vic points out, there's so many 'guitar romplers' out there it seems. I play my own guitar myself, so I'm not up on these 'Ultimate Guitar' VSTi's and all - But I'm sure if you looked into some of those VST instruments, there'd be great pedal steels in them? I like Ethnosphere for it's diversity and to augment my guitar - but if you don't have that luxury, I'd recommend looking into some of these 'virtual guitarists' for yourself then.

You also might wanna check out some of the library discs too. I think it was Quantum Leap's "Guitar & Bass" that had a pretty good pedal steel program. If you load that one into Kontakt or similar, it should do the job better than most.

Hi,

I'm new to samples/synths but played pedal steel for 27 years.

I'm guessing it would be pretty difficult to replicate the nuances of a steel.

But what do I know...

I've made my own pedal steel soundfont,sounds nice
with a real pedal steel attack and you can do chords
also,i think if you get your hand over it you can
do pretty things...It's only 300k(dollars or octets)
Send me a private message if you want it.

Pdlstl - I think if you got a MIDI keyboard with a good pitch bend wheel and a sustain pedal, you can do simple stuff that sounds pretty realistic. But to do volume and vibrato and all that - you'd need to be a mad MIDI scientist with about 3 weeks to spare to program it all just so.

If you're good with what you got - stick with it hoss!

My pedal steel soundfont is still available for
those who want to try it and why not improve it
because sf2 is not the only way to build an
instrument.

I liked it alot cerise! Only problem for me is - I can't edit .SF2's because of my lappy and sound unit. How many .WAV's or whatever did you use to make this .SF2? If you could put those up for us, I'm sure many would be obliged.

Ok Steven you come from the west so you sure like this
instrument I understand that if you don't have
any creative card you can't launch vienna and i don't
know other soundfont editors.Well i made a search and
found for you the original sound(1,18MB).It's a piece
of hawaiian solo and i took the last attack of the 1th
mesure because of the long release.
A good idea is to build an instrument with synthedit
with pictures art of the instrument and all the sounds
so all will be packed in a vsti.what d'you think about
that?
Write me again a message because all are deleted and
i'll give you the pedal steel sound

Strangely enough FL studio is good for this type of thing, because of the 4 independent pitch slides you can use in the piano roll (only works with wavs and soundfonts though, not vstis)

I mocked up the pedal steel in this (it's a pisstake yes, but the pedal steel aint bad say its faked!) using some samples of my guitar with a bit of vibrato from the sampler and loads of pitch slides

donkey parton

Oooooww man - now that's some HURTIN music! But I like it, it's got that Far Away Eyes and If You Want To Be A Bird appeal.

Good job on the guitar Tugger. But I must admit it sounds like a therimin in places and/or a 'singing saw'. But pretty good job you did with a axe and a bottleneck.

Tuggers a professional farmer....
He's always OUT STANDING in his field!

I miss Hee-Haw and TNN.

Hey Guy...I play pedal steel...and would love to hear what you've done. I used a pro nashville picker for years sampled into my S50 Roland..and made alot of country folks happy!...but I can't get those samples out of the S50....If I can hear what you've done..I can add some special notes..etc..bends...Thanks T

thexavi wrote:

I like country music very much, and I need a Vst instrument that emulates a pedal steel. Anyone can help me??? Thank you in advance

Out of 4900 hits you've got the top spot on a google search for pedal steel vst

Tkraft - are you reffering to Tuggers song? Just click on where he wrote 'Donkey Parton' and the song should play for you.

Or if it's me or Thexavi or someone else you mean? Didn't quite get the 'Hey Guy' you were reffering to?

4900 hits... Holy Sheep Shit!