Happyrat, there is no pitch bend wheel, that's the issue. The Vmeter looks interesting... out ot town on a job, i'll check out these ideas in detail later, thanks guys.
While that looks interesting, I don't work from pads, not nearly enough resources. I'm on a desktop PC system. (Also, not an Apple fan, even a little)... but thanks for the suggestion, maybe there's something similar for PC... not very confident about that.
I think I know the answer... I'm playing an old Privia PX-300, and there isn't a slide or bend bar... is there a way to do that, maybe via the pressure senstive keys or something? Just wanting to be able to slide a note in pitch and hoping there is a work around.