The Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar is the world's first pedal steel library to date that is fully playable in realtime. Instead of relying on pre-recorded licks and loops, the Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar uses single-note samples with advanced KSP scripting to put all ten bendable strings of E9th tuning right under your fingers. Programmed with 8-way round-robin samples per note, this amazing instrument is rounded out with multiple amp simulations, full neck position control, two types of release samples, and a host of tweakable/assignable controls for complete flexibility.
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After nearly a year of developement, I've finaly got my Midi Pedal Steel Guitar that I programed in Kontakt ready to go. Here's a couple. We build Custom Six string eight string and ten string pedal steel guitars. We also build Lap steel guitars We offer Pedal steel guitar Seats to pack all your guitar gizmos in for the trip to and from the gig.
- Ten strings of E9th-tuned pedal steel guitar, totalling 1.9 Gigabytes of 24-bit samples for Native Instruments Kontakt 2 or above.
- Allows independent pitch bending of all strings in nearly endless combinations, all on a single Kontakt MIDI channel.
- 8-Way Round-Robin sampling for natural sounding repetitions of notes and phrases.
- Gives access to 24 neck positions via assignable MIDI CC#. New in Version 2.5: Position control via keyswitch or 'Auto-Position Mode'.
- Separately assignable controls for vibrato speed and depth.
- New in Version 2.5: User-definable/switchable amp tremolo.
- New in Version 2.5: User-definable per-string pitch-wheel ranges - even define differing ranges for the upward and downward directions! Includes two factory presets and several batch editing tools.
- New in Version 2.5: Traditional sustain pedal operation for easier access to portamento-based pitch bending.
- New in Version 2.5: Temperament control for de-tuning the instrument, or allowing use of un-equal temperaments.
- Convolution Amp Modeling: 3 Amps with up to four reverb settings and multiple stereo/mono mic configurations.
- Realtime release sample control (pick damping and palm damping).
- MIDI Learn mode for all assignable controls and keyswitches.
- A feature-rich, dynamic performance view with three pages of clearly organized and intuitive controls for tweaking the instrument to your taste and style.
- Carefully chosen factory settings to allow unsurpassed out-of-the-box playability.
- New in Version 2.5: A 70 page interactive manual featuring over 20 video examples and a new neck-position appendix including over 75 color coded diagrams of neck position/keyboard split layouts.
I'm no longer taking requests for tablature, as this page has grown larger than my ability to maintain it. I highly recommend TablEdit, a program for Windows and Macintosh computers, as a good program to use for creating tablature. The author has gone out of his way to work with steel guitarists.
Roy Thompson has an excellent collection of non-pedal tablature (with accompanying sound files) on his web site.
Here's an excellent source for some tablature for various slide guitar artists, including Ry Cooder and Johnny Winter among others.
Tab Tabscott has a good collection of resophonic tablature on his web site. Another source of tablature with varying degrees of difficulty may be found on Howard Parker's resoguit web site. Folk of the Wood has a series of pages on How to Read & Understand Tablature for DOBRO®. The Dobro® Players Anonymous web site has a pretty good collection of tablature. Jay Buckey's web site has some tablature for Dobro® and other instruments in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Strum Hollow has a few tunes for resophonic guitars in MIDI, Tab and TablEdit format.
If you don't know what tablature is or have other questions, look at the OnLine Guitar Archive (OLGA).
Open E or open D tuning (bass to treble, E B E G# B E or D A D F# A D)
- I'll Fly Away, a traditional song arranged by Pete Grant
- Blackbird by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, also arranged by Pete Grant
- Steel Guitar Rag by Leon McAuliffe arranged by me
- Ashokan Farewell by Jay Unger arranged by Andy Volk
Open G tuning (bass to treble, G B D G B D)
- Bill Cheatham transcribed by Gregory Tucker-Kellogg
- Swallow Tail Jig arranged by Mark Panfil
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C6/Am7 tuning (bass to treble, C E G A C E)
- Warmth Of The Sun, a Beach Boys tune arranged by Andy Volk. (here's a MIDI file of the same song)
- Back At The Chicken Shack, a Jimmy Smith tune arranged by Andy Volk.
- Sleepwalk, my interpretation of the Santo and Johnny classic steel guitar song.
- Steelin Home, an instrumental originally done by Noel Boggs and His Daysleepers, arranged by Andy Volk.
- Aloha Oe, arranged by John Tipka
- Surf Medley, (Walk Don't Run/Pipeline) arranged by Andy Volk.
A7/C6 tuning (bass to treble, C# E G A C E)
- A Teardrop On A Rose, by Hank Williams, arranged by John Tipka
G6 tuning (bass to treble, G B E G B D)
- Sleepwalk, another version of the Santo and Johnny classic steel guitar song.
B11 tuning (bass to treble, C# D# F# A C# E)
- Nani Waimea, a classic Hawaiian tune arranged by Andy Volk.
C tuning (bass to treble, C G C E G C)
- How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too), a tune originally written by Agnes Cunningham, covered by Ry Cooder. This version transcribed by Tim Tweedale.
Thanks to Pete Grant, Andy Volk, Tim Tweedale,Mark Panfil, John Tipka,Keith Saturn, and Gregory Tucker-Kellogg for taking the time to contribute to this page.