The Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar uses a very powerful feature of the GVI engine called a Portamento Reshaping Filter (PRF), which dynamically reshapes the harmonic content of a sample as it's pitch is stretched, resulting in a more believable pitch bend. The other important term here is "portamento", which is a term used both in instrumental performance and synthesis. It's translation is literally the "carrying" of one note to another, but in synthesis it means the sliding of a pitch when a second note is played before first is released, and is synonomous with "Monophonic", or "Mono" for short. The settings for the PRF are a part of GVI's Mono Mode iMIDI rule, which allows us to specify how far and fast notes will bend in either direction, and to assign a host of other parameters for the control of portamento.
Each string of the Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar has a mono portamento rule, including a PRF to make the slides sound natural. All one has to do to perform bends or slides in either direction using the library is to play with legato phrasing.Speed control on the Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar is as simple as controlling your playing dynamics. The first note in a legato phrase will have it's volume determined by how hard the key is struck, but since a guitarist can't control volume after striking the note, any notes that are connected via portamento will just be a sustained, pitch-shifted continuation of the first. It's the pressure (velocity) applied to these notes that will determine how quicky the portamento will carry one note to the next. When the range of speeds offered by velocity is expanded using CC#5 (portamento time), the result is a virtual instrument that can slide at any speed from very quickly, to very slowly.