For Pete's sake!

OK.  Here's my idea.  Make a small building to go on the station platform (maybe a toilet block), and install a Loksound 3.5.  Have it removable with two leads with alligator clips to attach it to the Lokprogrammer track.

Remove (delete), all the .wav files from the memory - chuffs, whistles; all that stuff, everything.  Now load in general sounds of activity - birds, crowds of people etc.  That goes in User sounds and runs all the time, mapped to FS and FL.  Load in random sounds - toilet flushing, compressor, anything you might hear randomly while you are waiting for a train.  They goes in the Random Sounds sound slots.  Set up your "randomness", to taste.

Then load in some stuff you want TC to play.  Station Announcements are a good example.  Put them in the User slots and assign them to function buttons.  Now TC can play them as you programme it to do.

Interesting, no?    :twisted:

I think that could be interesting, Max. Presumably TC would be programmed to see it as a stationary decoder? I wonder if something cheaper than the 3.5 could be used as size is not so much an issue, and there is no requirement for motor control? I believe there are such chips in the US - unsure about the manufacturer though. (I think Eldavo has some insight on this?)

We might even be able to program in "Mind the Doors!" (I doubt that anyone who understands the significance of that will read this thread!)

just as long as it is not you saying it!!!:pedal

the idea is one I would love to have on my railway,it creates the atmosphere that is missing in the train room.

:doublethumb

Geoff.  The Loksound 3.5 decoder is costing me A$135.00 landed, so it's not an expensive option.  There are many sound decoders on the market, but only one which is able to be loaded with sounds which you have recorded yourself.

It is possible to load other brands of sound decoders - there is a thread in this sub-forum about it.  However, it is a difficult and convoluted process and the results were not much more than acceptable.  As I remember the dicusssion I had with the poster, who is now no longer with YMR, loading random and other non-motive sounds was not attempted.

This goes to the thread about the Cobalt motors where John decried using the LS 150 on the basis of being a cheap option.  While I disagreed with him about the details of his argument, his point is generally well made.  There is as far as I'm aware, no production sound decoder which can be used in the way I'm proposing, out of the box.

I'm offering this as a fun project for those with Lokprogrammers - not as a general possibility.  I'm not suggesting it as a business possibility for me; but I would be more than pleased to help anyone do it in any way I can.

"Mind the doors, please," would normally be a sound file loaded into the railcar (DMU/EMU I think you call them).

Why not use System operations>sound file. It plays any WAV file through the PC speakers but for station announcements and background sounds that should not be a problem?  I've just tried one on a switch and it is easy to set up.

Somebody i was talking to recently was looking at RR&CO 4d Sound, could be the answer for a lot of additional sounds other than loco sounds look here on the all new rr&co website

http://www.freiwald.com/pages/sound.htm

I'm not suggesting large scale sound reproduction through computer speakers or other sound systems.  What I'm suggesting is modelling the sound in OO or HO scale.  A localised soundscape in the close vicinity of the station (or in my case the loco barn). 

It was just an idea . . .

[user=269]MaxSouthOz[/user] wrote:

I'm not suggesting large scale sound reproduction through computer speakers or other sound systems.  What I'm suggesting is modelling the sound in OO or HO scale.  A localised soundscape in the close vicinity of the station (or in my case the loco barn). 

It was just an idea . . .

Argh right, yes a nice loksound would do a good job and scaling the sound, right i am with you, i am about to read the signalling thread for the fourth time 

 

I'm up to four, Pete.  I still have no idea.  :shock:  :oops:

[user=269]:thudMaxSouthOz[/user] wrote:

I'm up to four, Pete.  I still have no idea.  :shock:  :oops:

 Five :thud