In the synthesizer MOXF it is Voice: Preset 3:007(A07)

The trick to playing it and making it sound properly involves developing skill with the Pitch Bend Wheel, and constructing appropriate phrases for pedal steel. That is, if you play it like a piano it will not sound like a pedal steel. It's all in the technique. use two note chords, interval of a sixth

I am totally lost by that, but I will tell him for sure..........Thank you so much for getting back to me so quicky............ He has told me that it isn't nearly as loud or as good sounding as his previous model which was the yamaha prs2000.............he said he is thinking of going back to it, but he got the newer one to match his cp4 stage piano which he loves! 🙂 so I guess I will know what his decison is in the next day or two.... thanks again for getting back so quickly, and especially for letting Paul know that I contacted you........ Love the customer support....

You're quite welcome! Please tell him stop by here, we can post him a few audio clips that will help him explore and get the most out of playing the pedal steel from the MOXF. We are totally lost by the comment "...it isn't nearly as loud..." you can turn up a sound. LOUD is a relative term for audio output... And is a technical problem that every guitar player knows how to fix (pedal steel players, as well) ... they turn up to 11 🙂

Anyway introduce him to YamahaSynth - the official site for all things Yamaha Synthesizer related. Also, we know he had asked the question elsewhere because even though we are a very, very big company - every question is taken seriously. And it could not be a coincidence that two people were asking about a pedal steel guitar sound (that owned both a MOXF and a CP4 Stage) within the last couple of days. So we are confident it was his question echoing in the hallways of Yamaha. We are still researching additional VOICE and/or SAMPLE VOICE LIBRARIES that might contain different Pedal Steel Guitars for the MOXF.

Tell him that all VOICE files available for the Motif XF can be loaded into a MOXF that includes a FLASH BOARD (FL512M or FL1024M). This allows the MOXF to load in new instruments based on new SAMPLED audio data.

And remind him the MOXF is a synthesizer (unlike the PSR2000) you can edit the sound of the pedal steel customizing how it sounds, how loud it is and how it responds to your playing style. With a synthesizer you can often CHANGE what you need to in order to make the VOICE behave as you require.

Bad Mister wrote:

In the synthesizer MOXF it is Voice: Preset 3:007(A07)

The trick to playing it and making it sound properly involves developing skill with the Pitch Bend Wheel, and constructing appropriate phrases for pedal steel. That is, if you play it like a piano it will not sound like a pedal steel. It's all in the technique. use two note chords, interval of a sixth

I'm reviving this thread because I do not find an answer in the manuals (maybe I did not search the correct pages). In order to improve this kind of sounds (I'm also thinking of a "country style" violin) I was thinking to enable/disable the portamento by using the FS control (the problem is, as for other questions I posed here, enabling some effects without removing my fingers from the white & black keys 🙂 as I also have to play chords while soloing). So when I want to "bind" some notes I keep the pedal pressed and when I want the normal behavior I release it. Is this possible? Or should I try to improve my sensitivity when using the fingered portamento (I used this on my DX7-II and FB-01 maaaany years ago, but results were not always satisfactory)? Thanks in advance for help.

you can assign apply Portamento by stepping on a Foot Switch Set to send cc65 (Portamento Switch)
[UTILITY] >[F4] CTL ASN > FS=cc65
Use a momentary FS (FC4/FC5) Type

OK, as a good friend of mine and long time Yamaha keyboardist usually says, "there are no right answers to wrong questions". As my question was not written correctly, the answer is correct but is not what I wanted to know. I humbly apologize.
I already used the procedure you mentioned to assign the FS control to cc86 and duplicate the AF1 function (I use it for switching the rotor speed in tonewheel organ patches where AF1 is assigned to that function). But this is a global setting. What I'd like to do is to make this assignment on a "per voice" basis, or as an alternate configuration, to assign AF1 (and consequently FS) to the portamento switch on some voices. Is this possible?
Or maybe I could build a voice with some elements sensitive to portamento and others insensitive to it and bring the two groups in and out by stepping on the pedal (I guess no, as portamento switch is a global voice setting)?

I answer myself... I found a workaround assigning the FS to an unused CC and assigning that CC to the portamento time with a suitable increase value (the voice is programmed to have portamento enabled, fingered, and a portamento time of zero so it usually produces no real effect).
I obviously had to reprogram my organ voices to engage the rotor with the same CC instead od the AF1 switch.
It's not optimal (or maybe I have to improve my technique to make it sound better) so if somebody has better ideas I will gratefully accept them.
Regards
C.