what would you suggest as a close mandolin sound( taken from a guitar track) I have sent a sample piece.
I’m not sure I get this. It sounds like a big-body guitar to me. Is this part of another posting?
Koz
You wanted a guitar+mandolin combo.
Duplicate the guitar track , (press Ctrl + D).
Apply “Sliding time scale/ pitch shift” , (in “Effects” menu), with settings shown to the duplicated guitar track.
Voila you have guitar and mandolin (ish) …
Applying some randomization to the amplitude and timing would make it sound more like two humans playing,
there are two plugins which randomize …
Missing features - Audacity Support *
[ * Random_Pitch_Modulation applied to a stereo track makes the instrument wander about in the stereo field ].
He only wants to know what kind of mandolin sound one could super-impose on that riff.
I would probably just double the melody on the treble strings and play with the fingers.
However, Nyquist (the built-in sound language) provides a mandolin-model as well.
The following code for the Nyquist prompt (effect menu, with a duplicate of the guitar selected) produces a straight randomized melody around D major (listen to the attached file)
(setf indiv-dur (/ (1- (get-duration 1)) 32.0))
(setf notes '(a3 d3 a4 d4 fs4 g4 a4 d5 fs5 g5 a5 d6 e6 fs6))
(extract 0 1
(scale-db -15
(simrep (i 32)
(prog2 (setf current
(eval (nth (truncate (real-random 0 (length notes))) notes)))
(scale (real-random 0.1 1.0)(at-abs (* i indiv-dur) (mandolin current 1.0 3)))))))
The dual-mono track is furthermore treated with the random-pitch modulation plug-in from the Wiki with a depth of 0.01 to give more spaceness and less artificial character.
It is clear that writing a whole song is labour-intensive in that fashion.
that is what I was looking for thanks
I guess you need to tune down the mandolin.