Engine sounds exported from FL Studio sounds worse in BeamNG

Your video tutorial actually inspired me to use FL Studio to create engine sounds (I always wanted to make them but most of the time they ended up sounding like crap lol) so thanks for that

Anyways I couldn't seem to get it to sound better by adjusting those "Time stretching" parameters and other ways.

I actually just searched for "one cylinder engine sounds" and found a video with decent audio quality and ripped a single engine firing sound from it to be the sample I use for FL Studio.



Here is the sample I'm using from that video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qwvzcl8fHpNrMzRsi6s9kg7391PolAuK/view?usp=sharing

To get the pitch to match the rpm, I first chose a random high RPM like 5000 and changed the tempo until I think it sounds like that RPM. And say you happen to find that the tempo is 200 BPM. Then you can do some linear extrapolation to figure out the BPM for other RPMs with the formula using these numbers:

BPM = 200 / 5000 * RPM
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I forgot to add that I use a python script to export the sound samples because there's no way I'd be exporting 100s of samples by hand lol (If you want to use it, make sure FL Studio is in full screen mode and its meant to be used for a 1920 x 1080 monitor. Modify rpm_increment producing samples in increments of that value and modify tempo_divide_rpm to the value you guestimate as mentioned above.):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d96xoSg2moFkwpSVmYC6sT-RRI3BqCrg/view?usp=sharing

 

Okay I've now modified the python code so you don't have to do any guess work anymore and its a more proper solution. Sorry I also forgot to mention that you need to install a Python module called pyautogui.

Run this command in the Command Prompt to install it:

Code:

pip install pyautogui

And before running the script it, edit the following variables in the script:

1. Set fl_studio_beat_length_in_steps to how long each note is in beats (mines at 1 / 96 of a beat = 1 / (16 steps per beat (in project settings)) * 1/6 step)
2. Set min_rpm to set the starting sample RPM
3. Set max_rpm to set the ending sample RPM
4. Set rpm_increment for setting the interval of samples to create
5. Set num_cylinders_fired_per_cycle to how many firing strokes take place in one engine cycle (e.g. V6 = 3, V8 = 4)

And you should just have to double click the file to run it. And when the script is running, don't touch anything since it moves the cursor and presses buttons to export the files like how you would have to do it manually.

 

When installing python did you check “Add Python to PATH”?

If that doesn’t work follow these steps: https://stackoverflow.com/questions...recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command

 

You need to run that command in command prompt not the IDLE

 

It saves to the folder where FL studio projects are saved.
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Just try exporting a random sample and seeing the default output directory.

 

Okay I made it so you can input a sample RPM and its correlated BPM by modifying bpm_divide_rpm. (I made it so it uses your sample BPM and RPM)

Here's the link to the file again just in case:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d96xoSg2moFkwpSVmYC6sT-RRI3BqCrg/view?usp=sharing

 

I don't know what you mean. Maybe these export settings might help?

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Maybe the problem is you need to add the piano roll pattern to the playlist track.

 

Try playing the sound back in Audacity on loop (Shift + Space) and if it sounds good then you should be fine. I only export a single loop for the engine samples.

 

Did you select the whole pattern in the playlist track? Like did you right click drag the whole pattern so its all highlighted in red?