Advice on Creating Pedal Steel Guitar Instrument

Hi, everyone.
I am looking for some advice on creating an authentic Pedal Steel Guitar software instrument. I have all 4 Jam Packs, so would have access to any existing Guitar software instrument. I've played with the Jazz Chorus Electric, Twangy Electric and Clean Electric instruments with varying degrees of success.
The best results have been from starting with the Twangy Electric instrument:
Effects:
Compression>None
Amp Simulation>Manual>British Clean (defaults)
Chorus>Manual>Defaults
Equalizer>Manual>Bass Gain 30%>Mid Gain 80%>Mid Freq 80%>Treble Gain 80%
Echo>20%
Reverb>60%
* All values approximate. *
However, the sound is not quite there yet. Not being really familiar with how a Pedal Steel sound is actually created, I have just used trial and error based on what I can hear.
Anyway, if anyone can help out with any Starting out instruments and settings to modify that instrument to get a Pedal Steel sound, I would be very grateful.
BTW - Has anyone compiled a site yet with tips and tricks, or lists of instruments that can be created using the default and Jam Pack instruments? If not, it may be something I may undergo creating!
Thanks for any help you can give.
Gary
Dual G5 2.5 GHz Dual Core, 2.5 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD Mac OS X (10.4.7) iLife 06, Final Cut Studio, Jam Packs 1 through 4

The problem with pedal steel is that the absolutely unique sound is created through a complex mixture of techniques.
The "steel" slide itself which is effectively a smooth pitch shift.
The volume pedal which gives you the swell effect .
Various other pedals and knee operated levers which change the tunings of the strings.
Even if you get the basic electric sound I'm not sure how you can program all those parameters into the sound.
I guess you could use "expression" in place of the volume control but the pitch shift would be virtually impossible to do as the pitch shift in GB is limited to such a small range. You have to be able to create a smooth slide over more than octave.
If you do find one let us know as I'd love to see how they did it
Cheers
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