Pedal Steel by Impact Soundworks

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjhQ_ovfxfQ

Impact Soundworks is proud to announce the release of PEDAL STEEL, a virtual guitar that captures the true sound of this quintessential American instrument!

Developed by Dimitris Plagiannis, creator of our Django and Turkish Oud libraries, PEDAL STEEL allows you to create expressive performances: sonorous leads, chords, and harmonized melodies using just a single instance.

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Overview

You don't need to be an expert at playing pedal steel guitars to understand this virtual instrument: Dimitris has introduced a unique and intuitive way to perform melody & harmony parts without multiple tracks or takes.

In "Harmonized Mono" mode, you can play expressive lead parts in the right hand with automatic pitch bends and optional auto-vibrato. Holding harmony keys in the left hand while playing with the right triggers interval harmonies that intelligently follow your playing. With a few minutes of practice, you'll find it incredibly easy to play beautiful harmonized melodies!

If you want to dive in further, our bespoke harmonization editor allows you to define custom intervals and settings for each harmony key, opening up endless musical possibilities.

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Pedal Steel also includes our powerful CONSOLE modular mixer & FX rack. Here you can mix between DI and amped signals, plus use up to 30 different FX modules from EQs to custom amps, cabinets, delay, chorus, and much more.

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Instrument Walkthrough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mfQPeOu8g0

Key Features

  • Nearly 10,000 samples recorded through DI (clean) and two amps
  • Three voicing modes: polyphonic, poly legato, harmonized mono
  • Six fret positions to choose from, altering the performance timbre
  • Manual and automatic vibrato modes
  • Beautiful automatic legato slides
  • Normal and harmonic articulations
  • Humanization options for timing, tune and noise
Demos

Enjoy our rich demo playlist showcasing Pedal Steel in many contexts!

https://soundcloud.com/isworks/sets/pedal-steel-demos

Availability

Pedal Steel is available now for the intro price of $149 (MSRP: $199) for Kontakt Player and is fully NKS compatible.

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We've created a new tutorial video showing how the innovative "Harmonized Mono" mode works. In less than 5 minutes you'll see how you can harmonize a simple melody without writing entire harmony parts, or keyswitching constantly :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDmhJpOF35k

Also, as a reminder, intro pricing for this instrument ends soon (July 7th!)
Shreddage 3 Stratus: Next generation Kontakt Player guitar, now available!

Impact Soundworks - Cinematic sounds, world instruments, electric guitars, synths, percussion, plugins + more!

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Nice! I always thought it would be cool to get something similar to the type of sound Steve Howe uses. The demos sound great. =)

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Really Cool

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At about 2:05 minutes in the Pedal Steel Instrument Tutorial there is a comparison of notes played without overlap and then with overlap. The overlap notes slide. When I do this with pedal steel I hear a lot of the initial pluck string sound and not much slide. I have tried studying all the settings but can't find anything to get the slide sound without the loud pluck sound. Anyone come across this and found what is different?

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