Is there a tool in the Audacity toolkit that will allow me to generate a track where the waveform sounds like a sustained trumpet note at a fundamental frequency I input? I am not interested in the ‘attack’ with which the tone starts, just the tone itself.
For example, I would like to lay down a track at 440 Hz at an amplitude I select, much like I can create a sine tone using the ‘generate’ function.
Alternatively, is there a menu item I’ve overlooked that will allow me to select a sine tone and transform it into a reasonable facsimile of a trumpet tone?
The best solution would be to get a MIDI application. With MIDI you could just make an A that plays for many measures and assign it to a trumpet.
Or if you have a recording of the note/tone, “loop it”. …Just keep pasting copies together to make it as long as you like.
You could try generating a square wave and then equalize to see how close you can get. And/or try the same thing with a sawtooth wave.
Or, you could probably do something with [u]Nyquist programming[/u], but you’d have to learn how to program in Nyquist and you have to research how to “synthesize” a trumpet.
