Belbin's Breakdown

(c) + (p) 2008, Mark Belbin

This bluegrass tour-de-force showcases everything that makes the Wavelore Pedal Steel a revolutionary instrument: Bebop-like detached lines melt into cascading arpeggios, sustaining chords bend selected notes in staggered order, pick damping makes stopped notes gitty and intense, and the "Modern Tube Amp" GigaPulse model adds a generous helping of room sound.

All this aside, the most amazing thing about this demo is the fact that it was sequenced using a single MIDI channel, whose memory requirements were no more than was needed to load the single-note samples. These samples were then manipulated using GVI's incredible iMIDI mono-portamento rule and processed through GigaPulse to model the behavior of the pedal steel. This approach is markedly different and far superior to that of sampling a limited number of licks and hacking them together in your DAW - this demo and the others are proof that you can play or write any line you want with the Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar!