HOW DO YOU MAKE NEW WHISTLE SOUNDS?
- Thread starter barronzm
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If you have a good, clean, high-quality audio recording of the whistle, then making a whistle for Trainz is relatively simple to do. There should be some tutorials floating around on the InterWebs that demonstrate how to make them. Heck, I'll make a whistle for anyone if they have a HQ recording, but I'm sure others would as well...
But, when you say you want to make them "from scratch", do you mean starting with an audio recording of an actual whistle or truly "making them from scratch" by somehow (auto-magically?) generating a waveform that sounds like a steam whistle?
PS: I have a couple of real steam whistles that were used on Virginian Ry. Mallets. If someone could send me a working steam boiler (or preferably, a working steam locomotive), I'll be glad to make a variety of audio recordings freely available to the Trainz community.
If you have a good, clean, high-quality audio recording of the whistle, then making a whistle for Trainz is relatively simple to do. There should be some tutorials floating around on the InterWebs that demonstrate how to make them. Heck, I'll make a whistle for anyone if they have a HQ recording, but I'm sure others would as well...
But, when you say you want to make them "from scratch", do you mean starting with an audio recording of an actual whistle or truly "making them from scratch" by somehow (auto-magically?) generating a waveform that sounds like a steam whistle?
PS: I have a couple of real steam whistles that were used on Virginian Ry. Mallets. If someone could send me a working steam boiler (or preferably, a working steam locomotive), I'll be glad to make a variety of audio recordings freely available to the Trainz community.
I use Audacity, which is a pretty good freeware sound editor, to clean up the recording, cut paste splice etc, you can actually create several whistles from one good recording by varying the pitch, length, speed, the variations are pretty much unlimited.
Slightly off topic however, a chap I used to know used compressed air to "blow" his Steam Whistles, much to the annoyance of his neighbours!
May I suggest non caps? It doesn't require shouting. Secondly if you follow this link http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=73835 read it through and try it several times it explains exactly what needs to be done.
Best Regards
Mike S.
Best Regards
Mike S.