Best midi mandolin?

[mzuch]

Has anyone found a sound card or MIDI software with a particularly good virtual mandolin? Thanks.

[mandroid]

You mean a keyboard input that has a #good synthesized mandolin sound patch?
or,?
Roland and RMC pickups to provide a signal to guitar Synthisizers #which have Midi in/out/thruput capabilitys #are #available [GI 20 will use the stuff in a keyboard and if it has speakers in it those too]
... for example brian Moore guitars custom shop makes an 8 string #solid body mandolin that has roland's type of 13 pin output for runing guitar synthisizers , at last reading they also offer a USB output instrument ,
same 8 string, for running other stuff, notation software, perhaps [thats beyond lil ol me]..
steve ryder makes #RMC #equipped 4 and 5 string to 13 pin, instruments too.
rewiring a Godin A8 to keep the 4 pickups separate , is possible too.
[they are all wired together as a combined monaural signal at the preamp as they come]

Can you restate your Question? what is the desired outcome?
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[mzuch]

Sorry, please excuse my lack of technical savvy. I've noticed that PCs pprovide a choice of MIDI music playback "devices," such as Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth, as do sound cards, such as SB Live! Synth A. These seem to have different choices of MIDI indtruments and different quality of sounds for each. I'm looking for one with a good sounding mandolin. The outcome I'm looking for is better quality sound from BIAB, which I use to provide the second mandolin part when practicing duets. I hope this makes sense, although it is entirely possible that I've made erroneous assumptions about how this works.

[mandroid]

I'll defer to the More electronic and software savvy, my shallow dip was to have mandolin, 4 strings, substitute for guitar input #so I could hear #those synthetic instruments .

a #midi sequencer stores the messages in that language, and then replays them, I think #thats the term for that gear.

My Roland #pedal module GR30,( long discontinued) has a patch 'D62' "F.Mandolin" #, its not really
even close, more a Rhodes tyne #than a string.

It would seem a recorded track, or a loop, of the first voice in the Duet, and then playing with it again would be a simpler way.

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RMC polydrive II > GKP4>GR 30&33, mixed back together at a submixer > AC-60 + KCW-1 powered sub, [in effects send on submixer to have levels blend ] guitar out on each GR can support a pedal guitar DSP, and mix those back in also .
makes for a thick sound, with lots of layers.

[Patrick Killeen]

Hello Mzuch

You're right about how this works. The General Midi (GM) standard just specifies the names of the instruments and leaves it to the manufacturers to decided what those instruments should sound like.

I don't know which devices have good mandolin sounds. I don't like the mandolin on mine and tend to use "Orchestral Harp" as a substitute.

Patrick

[Bob Denton]

I have a 5 string Mandoblaster fitted with a Roland guitar synth. I have it set up with double sounds on each string a few cents apart to simulate a real world tuning. I use an acoustic guitar sound and I get quite a good simulation, when I am not using the steel drum, pipe organ or other sounds.

Cya