I use the 'pitch bend' controler to add expression when playing guitar & harmonica solos, especially on country tunes. What I can't figure out is how anyone could ever access the pitch bend/mod wheels while performing in arranger keyboard mode, because the left hand always needs to be playing/ triggering the chords, while the right hand performs the guitar solo. I have had to (instead) assign a foot controler pedal to trigger pitch bend (1/2 step fixed pitch change). This is a marginably workable solution but unfortunately you don't have the pitch change control (varying degrees within the set parameter) which can be achieved via a pitch bend wheel/stick. I''m interested how others of you deal with this.

Here another pitch bend gripe (specifically related the Yamaha PSR2000) which has perplexed me. Why is pitch bend only assignable to foot controler #2 and not foot controler #1 ? It seems that all other foot controler assignments (except modulation & volume) are assignable to either foot controler #1 or #2. The reason this is an issue for me is because I typically like to dedicate foot controler #2 to vocal harmonony on/off and sustain (damper pedal) to foot controler #1. When I'm playing a stringed guitar instrument (the sustain pedal assignment is not appropriate) so it makes more sense to be able to assign pitch bend to controler #1 in those situtations, and be able to keep foot controler #2 assigned to vocal harmony on/off. Oh well, maybe it's just ME? I'm curious to hear from other PSR players about this.

- Scott
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