Pitch bend is an essential skill to learn for my lot! They start as soon as they have a keyboard that has a wheel. Usually set to 1 semitone, but as a trombone can slide up to a 4th, then it can be set to 5. For half valve slides like Cherry Pink, then 12 is OK, but there is a trick to making that sound correctly using pitch bend. As no-one else I know of knows how to do it and it took a while to work out and practise, I'm keeping this one to myself!
Thanks for the info on the part number, should I even wear mine out!