Scott:

To answer about small window of time, I usually just use a appropreate style with just the basic bass drums and guitar going. This frees up the left hand. (in my opinion the biggest mistake non country players make is to put to much junk in,trying to supe it up. Country is very basic music, no organs string sections etc).
If you are working the left hand doing a guitar backing (or piano) there is no window open. but if your letting the style do most of the work, there is time. I sometimes do activate the hold on the left, but not usually on country, continous sound on country usually dosn't fit.

Real steel players comments...what I was meaning is they of course don't think a keyboard even comes close to a steel guitar, but the sound they hear, of a performed country song with a steel lead in stereo, sounds so clean and tight the overall results is outstanding. Nothing fancy just clean sound.

I would guess if you persist in honing your skills on the tyros (getting all the right settings to make it the easeist way to operate) then perfected the riffs etc. you can probably get a very good go at the pedal steel. I'm content to do a simulation and the only critics are other musicians, most listeners are listening to the tune and the overall sounds they hear, not realising they're hearing a live computer chip being played.

Question: I beieve you made mention that the tyros had a way to change the bend speed when using glide on a pedal. The 9000 seems only to bend matching the BPM of the tune. This is to slow at times, does the tyros let you speed up the duration?

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