guys guitar doesn't count it's like the doctor who immortal time traveler guy it just shows up everywhere and you're like yup this is normal

ok so the broader thought experiment here is i'm really enjoying learning the mandolin, and i'm really enjoying building and exploring mollytime, and i'm feeling a gap where i'm not really good enough to play music with people but it is nevertheless an unmet need but i could maybe use a sequencer to practice with but mollytime mostly sounds like snes sounds which makes it a somewhat odd pairing so like how do i make that not sound ironic or like i didn't buy enough daw plugins to sound good lol

first idea: mic the mandolin and obliterate the sound with filters so it matches the chiptunes better. I think this is a non-starter though because it's a pretty instrument and it feels wrong to remove that from the sound.

second idea: keep the sound of the instrument the same, but also maybe explore an additive approach involving delay loops and/or granular synthesis stuff. especially if it can put the different voices can sorta bleed into the same conductive media so to speak. maybe worth exploring

third idea: same as the first idea but backwards, leave the mandolin alone, figure out how to mutate the synth sounds into something that feels more acousticy without necessarily trying to emulate any particular traditional instrument. i have no idea how that would work

@aeva I wonder what it would sound like to add the resonances of an acoustic instrument body to a synth

@pillbug so like replace guitar strings with a speaker?