Audio Feedback Thread

Hi! The UI slider should control only the volume of UI sounds, certainly not any mod sounds. Good point about splitting up "UI" volume and "SFX" volume and have two separate sliders, one for each sound group. I´ve added this to our to-do-list and we will most likely change that in a future update.

 

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We do need to update our documentation. This is already achievable.

You can tweak the EQ and volume of the engine/exhaust sound being used in the engine.jbeam:

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"soundConfig": {
"sampleName": "i5_engine",
"intakeMuffling": 1,

"mainGain": -13,
"onLoadGain":1,
"offLoadGain":0.52,

"maxLoadMix": 0.75,
"minLoadMix": 0,

"eqLowGain": 5,
"eqLowFreq": 500,
"eqLowWidth": 0.2,

"eqHighGain": 0,
"eqHighFreq": 1000,
"eqHighWidth": 0.1,

"lowShelfGain":0,
"lowShelfFreq":80,

"highShelfGain":8,
"highShelfFreq":2500,

"fundamentalFrequencyCylinderCount":5,
"eqFundamentalGain":5,
},
"soundConfigExhaust": {
"sampleName": "i5_exhaust",

"mainGain": 1,
"onLoadGain":1,
"offLoadGain":0.52,

"maxLoadMix": 0.75,
"minLoadMix": 0,

"eqLowGain": 7,
"eqLowFreq": 450,
"eqLowWidth": 0.2,

"eqHighGain": 7,
"eqHighFreq": 1400,
"eqHighWidth": 0.1,

"lowShelfGain":-5,
"lowShelfFreq":90,

"highShelfGain":10,
"highShelfFreq":4000,

"fundamentalFrequencyCylinderCount":5,
"eqFundamentalGain": -3,
},
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You set the afterfire soundset in the engine.jeam along with the afterfire rates etc:

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The afterfire events are set in the engine jbeam. If there are more than one engine configuration, set in each.

1. "instantAfterFireSound": "event:>Vehicle>Afterfire>"x">single",
   
   
2. "sustainedAfterFireSound": "event:>Vehicle>Afterfire>"x">multi",
   
   
3. "shiftAfterFireSound": "event:>Vehicle>Afterfire>"x">shift", or
   
   
4. "shiftAfterFireSound": "event:>Vehicle>Afterfire>"x">shift_dct",

where "x" is the engine configuration. Currently we have bespoke afterfiresoundssets for:

• box4_xx
• i4_xx
• i5_xx
• i6/v6_xx

The trigger settings for afterfire are set in the engine jbeam:

instant

• "afterFireAudibleThresholdInstant": x or 500000 (default)
• "instantAfterFireCoef": x - trigger rate
• "instantAfterFireVolumeCoef": x - event volume

shift (incl. DCT)

• "afterFireAudibleThresholdShift": x or 150000 (default),
• "shiftAfterFireVolumeCoef": x,

sustained (this is NOT over-run and should NOT be used for anti-lag over-run - this needs to be added)

• "afterFireAudibleThresholdSustained": x or 40000 (default),
• "sustainedAfterFireCoef": x,
• "sustainedAfterFireTime": x - the time within sustained over-run can play within (in seconds),
• "sustainedAfterFireVolumeCoef": x,

Various parts of the engine system can modifiy these settings (normally volume and trigger rate using mathematical functions such as a multiplier or addition).

• "$*instantAfterFireCoef": x,
• "$+instantAfterFireCoef": x.

(note - the VolumeCoef values are related to each other, BUT the overall volume is then controlled in the exhaust with afterFireVolumeCoef )
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Control over exhaust muffling, afterfire amount (based on values in the engine jbeam), volumes are set in the exhaust.jbeam:

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{"afterFireAudioCoef":0.05,"afterFireVisualCoef":0.25, "afterFireVolumeCoef":0.7, "afterFireMufflingCoef": 0.2, "exhaustAudioMufflingCoef": 0.2, "exhaustAudioGainChange":-4}]

1. afterFireAudioCoef = audio trigger rate. This value is multiplied against the overall total of AfterFireInstantTriggerCoef setup in x_engine.jbeam. This used to be merged with afterFireVisualCoef
2. afterFireVisualCoef = visual trigger rate. This used to control both the audio and visual, but now just visual
3. afterFireVolumeCoef = a simply volume control over the afterfire events in FMOD. where 0 = -21dB and 1 = 0dB
4. afterFireMufflingCoef = controls the muffling of the afterfire where 0 = fully muffled and 1 = fully unmuffled. Rough guidelines for use would be:
   1. 0.00 = fully muffled / stock / showroom
   2. 0.25 = sport
   3. 0.50 = tuned
   4. 0.75 = race
   5. 1.00 = no exhaust
5. exhaustAudioMufflingCoef = controls the muffling, and therefore the mix balance of the muffled/unmuffled engine rev bands, where 0 = fully muffled and 1 = fully unmuffled. Rough guidelines for use would be:
   1. 0.00 = fully muffled / stock / showroom
   2. 0.25 = sport
   3. 0.50 = tuned
   4. 0.75 = race
   5. 1.00 = no exhaust
6. exhaustAudioGainChange = a simple volume control over the overall volume of the exhaust rev band mix with a range of 0dB to -30dB. Positive values are possible but not recommended as they will contribute to clipping/distorting the overall mix of the game.

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It's actually not new All the cars using the modern driving modes (SBR4, ETK K, ETK 800, Vivace, Bastion) use this to some extend

 

I've just loaded up a few mods and they all appear to be working. More detail please?

 

OK - thanks. Of course, it works for me as we don't use the zip file which is where these sounds reside in the release version of the game. Will raise this in our dev chat, thanks.

Stuff like what exactly, there's a lot of different things on that fruity loops screen.

 

Ah right, ok thanks for letting me know.

Well most modern DAW's (digital audio workstations) have samplers and piano roll editing built in. The one I use, Cubase, has all of that..... but considering that a decent engine sound is going to need multiple samples at different pitches so sound realistic, this wouldn't be a very easy way of going about things imo.

 

The MAN is just really quiet, I don't have any sound issues myself, try reinstalling the game

 

No that was another mod that had it tied to that slider, it was some plane mod. The MAN was always really quiet regardless.