Impact Soundworks – Pedal Steel

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Pedal Steel

An extremely expressive and playable pedal steel guitar, designed by Dimitris Plagiannis to focus on authentic performances and ease-of-use! This quintessential American instrument is capable of playing rich harmonies and sonorous leads simultaneously. Great for jazz, country, bluegrass and much more.

Details

This library is all about capturing and performing the unmistakable sound of the pedal steel guitar, a classic of American music for over 100 years. The instrument originated in the Hawaiian Islands as a regular guitar, de-fretted and played with the edge of a dull knife to produce a signature sliding tone. It then evolved into the Dobro, followed by the lap steel guitar, before arriving finally at the pedal steel we know today: complete with electrified output and pedal control.

As the name suggests, pedal steel guitars rely on not just the hands to fret and play melodies and chords, but also the feet and knees to trigger pedals and levers. By doing so, the performer can produce unlimited inversions and chords under expressive sliding melodies. Our goal with our Pedal Steel was to offer this level of flexibility, without requiring intimate knowledge of the techniques required to play the actual instrument!

Library Concept

In creating this library, we recorded a modern standard 10-string E9 pedal steel (Nashville tuning) through a DI box, later re-amped with Fender and MESA/Boogie tube amps. The amps were recorded at their speaker output using a reactive load box so that they can be used with any cabinet IR including our own Console FX rack and mixer.

Capturing all the nuance and flexibility of a pedal steel guitar was a huge challenge, but making it playable on a standard MIDI controller was an even greater hurdle. Our goal with this library was to offer easy playability without requiring intimate knowledge of a pedal steel guitar. To that end, it has a few key design concepts:

1. There is no visual fretboard, as we wanted the focus to be on simply playing the instrument.
2. Multiple modes of playing depending on whether you want monophonic leads, polyphonic chords, or lead + harmonies.
3. An innovative harmony system that uses simple keyswitching with a powerful editor to produce nearly unlimited voicings.

The project’s goal was to create an expressive instrument that doesn’t distract you with unnecessary complexities. We hope we came close, and that you will find this virtual instrument inspiring and enjoyable!

How to Play

Pedal Steel uses a unique layout allowing you to create harmonies underneath melodies without using multiple tracks. Of course, the instrument can be used in simple polyphonic mode (for chords w/ legato) or monophonic mode (for leads), but the real star is Harmonized Mono mode.

In this mode, the right hand plays the instrument’s melody range (blue keys), while the left hand controls harmony triggering (yellow keys) and tonic note (red keys).

By holding a harmony (yellow key) and playing a melody note, a harmony will automatically be triggered under the melody note. The specific harmony is based on the tonic note, harmony key(s) and melody key played. For example, Harmony 1 will simply trigger the tonic note underneath the melody you’re playing, while Harmony 4 will trigger major thirds built from the melody.

You can edit how these harmonies are created with our flexible Harmonization editor, but the possibilities are endless even with the default 11 harmony setups – and you can hold multiple keys at once to seamless switch between no harmony or huge sliding chords!


Console: Modular FX Rack and Mixer


Console is our new mixer and modular effects rack, designed to give you full control over your instrument tone and space. Unlike our previous FX racks, which were limited to a small amount of preset modules, Console gives you 30 effects modules to choose from!

These include multiple EQs (digital and analog-style), compressors, spatial FX, modulation FX, amps, distortion pedals, reverbs, and a selection of over 30 custom cabinet IRs! Using Console, you can easily save and load FX chains or presets between projects or even different Console-enabled ISW instruments. It also allows you to mix and blend between mic positions, with custom inserts on each if you’d like.

Download the Console manual here to learn more!

Specification

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Size

6GB

Brand

Brand

Impact Soundworks

Customer Reviews

17 reviews for Impact Soundworks – Pedal Steel

  1. John Parsons (verified owner)

    Great experience, highly recommend.👍

  2. Ricky Fleming (verified owner)

    Super easy and FAST

  3. Milo Roach (verified owner)

    My order was processed quickly and effortlessly. 10/10.⭐

  4. Gerard Gill (verified owner)

    not just because the prices offered are highly competitive, but because the customer service is second to none👌

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  6. Theodore Jennings (verified owner)

    The entire process was straightforward and easy.

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  8. Elias Klein (verified owner)

    Great experience.
    Fast and smooth.

  9. Laura Stein (verified owner)

    Very fast and professional company.🌞

  10. Young Montoya (verified owner)

    Quick & Easy!! 🥰🥰
    Beginning to end of transaction went very smooth, it was also an extremely fast process

  11. Rae Velasquez (verified owner)

    Простой опыт работы с сайтом и быстрое обслуживание

  12. Victoria Mason

    The flexibility and authenticity of the pedal steel samples blew me away – a great addition to my collection!

  13. Nathan Sanders

    This pedal steel sample library has great tones and is easy to use, I’m very happy with my purchase.

  14. Joseph Carter

    I love the realistic sound of this virtual instrument – it really brings my music to life!

  15. Isabella Parker

    This pedal steel virtual instrument really nailed the authentic sound I was going for in my recordings – highly recommend it to any musician looking to add some twang to their tracks!

  16. Thomas Ward

    I absolutely love the realistic sound and versatility of this pedal steel instrument, it has added a whole new dimension to my music production!

  17. Evelyn Fisher

    I’m really impressed with the sound quality and versatility of this virtual instrument. It has exceeded my expectations and I definitely feel like it was worth the purchase.

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