I found a complete Renaissance & Folk sample library to buy on Motifactor for $79.99, but that's much more than I needed or wanted to spend just to add a lead mandolin user voice to my Motif ES. Are there any individual Motif voices as opposed to samples that are available to purchase and load on my Motif ES? Alternatively, I would be willing to try to make one myself starting with a preset guitar but, candidly, I don't know where to start. I searched old posts and found the following suggestions:

"...Perhaps a 12 string guitar would do? They have the two first strings tuned in unison like a mandolin - perhaps change an octave setting to reflect this. Try playing high on the keyboard and see how that sounds.…try pitching up steel-string acoustic guitar samples. To emulate pairs of strings, have 2 identical elements and slightly detune them and add a very short key on delay to one of them. Add a high-pass filter to make it sound smaller and take out some of the guitar body. I would also try playing around with the amp-envelope to bring out the attack.."

Phil, I would appreciate receiving a small bit of your elements / effects programming wisdom, take and advise on building a mandolin user voice for my ES...especially if you could dumb it down a bit for me. Thanks very much in advance!