Executing a slide with Songwriter

[tunefoolery]

I'm trying to use a slide in Evolution Songwriter. I have a four note chord sliding into another four note chord -- each note is moving by a semi-tone up. The notes of the first chord are overlapping slightly with those of the second. When I play it back in my DAW, it does kind of sound like a slide. I thought I would try the velocity slide command, used as a keyswitch. Using this, it doesn't sound any different. Is this because slides need to be at least a major second? I'm not a guitar player, so I don't have any background knowledge of guitars...

Thanks for any help.

[EvilDragon]

Slides need at least a semitone of difference, not a major second. But it might be that it's simply a very fast slide within that one semitone...

[Gregjazz]

So is the four note chord just sliding up one semitone? Or do you need it to slide farther?

In any case, this tutorial video might be helpful: https://youtu.be/SEbgQNEGHGU?t=244

[tunefoolery]

Thanks for your replies. My four-note chord is sliding up just a semi-tone. I'll try the techniques presented in the video. I hadn't yet tried the velocity slide command using velocity (I used a keyswitch), so it will be interesting to see what happens. Being able to change the midi channels of individual notes is a pretty nifty thing; I'm not sure it can be done in Digital Performer. But if worst comes to worst, I can load additional instances of the guitar and experiment.