Audio Feedback Thread

There was a (non-audio) bug which has been reported in the 0.23 feedback thread and on discord which was causing this. Fixed and waiting for the next hotfix.

 

I might have figured out something about the problem with the sounds: For some reason the game doesn't see the SoundConfig field on some mods. For whatever reason it doesn't see it if it's the engine Jbeam, but if you move it to the sub-slot like the N2O slot then it does. But it still sees the definition of SoundConfig so it doesn't play the legacy V8 sound like it should in this case, and shows no errors because it thinks no sounds are even defined. I hope this helps somehow. No idea why this happens on some mods and not on others.
Also the samples in the folder I talked about eariler are still broken as well. Maybe it's the fact that this folder is not definied anywhere in combustionEngine.lua, only the hidden sound folder with blends is.

 

Thank you - I'll pass that on to the programmer looking at this.
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OK - we're going to need someone who is having this issue to raise a ticket with support, and go through this properly.

https://support.beamng.com/

 

Yeah, so not only are you not looping on or close to a zero crossing point, which is good practise to do where possible, this sample is never going to loop as it is because the start sample value and the end sample value are too far away from each other - look at the loop_point capture png where I've put the end point up to the start point. There's your click.
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There appears some other issue with the loop as it happens, as even with correct loop values there was additional sample data which were giving the audio a low frequency 'bump'. Look at the final PNG - I deleted the bit lighlighted... and the loop is fine now.

 

There looked some other issue with the loop as it happens, there was additional sample data which meant it was never going to loop correctly without a bump. I've removed that, and the loop is fine now.

Well that's because the number of cycles in the sample doesn't match the correct number for a v6 engine - I didn't expect you wanting me to do that as well - that should be improved too now.... I'm not going to make a habit of this though

I'm afraid it'll all be trial and error for you. The more you look at waveforms you'll start to see patterns in the peaks with different engine configurations etc... it's just practise and experience.

 

A 'thank you' would have probably been the most appropriate response here, but whatever.

 

The trouble with doing that, is you end up with a very static sound because it is looping so frequently. IRL the timbre of an engine sound is forever subtly changing, so a quick static loop ends up sounding unrealistic - this is one of the issues I have with the samples we use.
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No worries - it's the "grumpy old git" part of me coming out. I'm always like this with my kids

 

Um.... incorporating what in an rpm loop sample? that file is in effect an rpm loop.

What what work with the samples in the game? introducing a delay? I don't think I'm understanding what you're trying to ask here, sorry.
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You're welcome

 

Can you record a video to explain what you mean please?
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Mmm, so a delay is effectively a copy of the original sound, played at a later time.

For a start the reason why the delay doesn't start at the beginning of your sample, is because you told it to be a 1.17 second delay... so the first repetition (delay) it will do will be 1.17 seconds in to your file. There's a good description of what an audio delay is here if you're not quite sure - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_(audio_effect)

It sounds uneven because you have overlayed (or in effect, copy and mixed - that's what a delay is) the original sound on top of its self but using a delay frequency of 1.17, which is different to the pattern the recording naturally has - what you've "sort of" done, is given the sound 5 more cylinders, but in a random sort of way.

 

Better engine/exhaust sounds would be the way to improve them... There's an old saying....."you can't polish a turd"

We are aware.... you guys know by now that I'm not happy with many of these sounds... and there are discussions going on regarding this. It's just not as simple as most other games where you record a car and there we go. For sure Horizon 5 is doing a bit of the real time sound manipulation now, but what we're wanting to do is on a whole different level.