DTM Horn Glitch

[Thad]

I own four of DTM's incredible creations for train simulator. I have the UP GP30, UP GP50, NS Dash 7s, D&RGW SD50. All of these except for the GP30 have a weird glitch. I hit the horn button, and the sound begins to play. It then pauses for about a second, and then continues to play. The same problem exists for the Pacific Surfliner horn, as well as the horns of the two other commuter trains available for it. The universal way to stop this glitch from happening is to go in the cab and press the actual horn button inside of the cab.

Here's the thing, though: While what I mentioned above sounds like it fixes the problem entirely, it really doesn't. As you may know, DTM is very realistic, to the point where the sound the train makes on the exterior is much quieter in the interior. This means I can barely hear the horn from inside the cab when I press the button there.

I've tried reinstalling those addons, and there was no change. Is this a problem on my end, or a problem that DTM is at fault for? Is there a fix for this problem?

[jalsina]

Other than fighting against the impossible (waiting for fixes who nobody knows if they will come), I would suggest you take a walk in the Sounds Enhancements section of the RWA library.

[Thad]

Opprinnelig skrevet av jalsina:

Other than fighting against the impossible (waiting for fixes who nobody knows if they will come), I would suggest you take a walk in the Sounds Enhancements section of the RWA library.

I have never done that before, but I just tried to change my Dash 9 from Donner pass and now my Southern Pacific Dash 9 doesn't have any horn sound... I watched this video and did everything just like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ2Xnv3l-CY

Is there anything that they (and I) missed in that video?

[Thad]

Update: I managed to play around with it enough to get part of the sound working. I hit the horn button, and either the starting or ending horn sound will play.

What I did was opened Dash9 Horn.proxyxml and changed stuff from Dash9pack01 to DonnerPass (obviously because I am making the change to the Dash 9 from Donner Pass, not the Dash 9 pack)

Is there anything else I should do?

[jalsina]

I have installed several horns but as you in that D9, I have experienced problems.
Look at what you can do:

1) A simple horn exchange will have a start, a loop and an end. Every sound can be either in a dav or wav formats. Many authors will provide .wav sound files for custom horns. In this case you have to edit the file extensions in the proxys from dav to wav. In UKTrainSim there is a tool to convert dav-wav, but you don´t need to do that. Also you need RW_Tools to edit a binary as a proxybin and a XLM editor to edit the proxyxlm.

2) Proxys require both "identical" files in xml and bin (all other files in may be called as xlm but you will only need the bin) present in the audio folder. A bin is the binary of the xml.

3) Proxys are managed by an xlm (sound driver) that are called from the engine bin.

4) You can edit that call path to alias your horn to another loco horn you already have in your collection

5) If you don´t like a volume level, then edit the proxys to increase or decrease it.

6) You can change also other variables in the proxys that include pitch, distance, etc..I do not have knowledge for every one of those.

7) Sometimes a loco has a horn for both external and cab usage. In other cases there are two different horns. You could use one set of sounds (dav, wav, etc) and just editing two different sets of proxys for the cab and exterior.

8) Most of the time the bell is managed in the same proxy.

9) Many 3rd parties horns have faulty or non existing instructions. Many provide only sounds with no proxys. In many cases this people suppose you know the basics of installing horns, for which there are tutorials both written and in videos.

Some horns are very complex and may be difficult to work with.

To master all that is like everything, You need practice and the basics of editing xlm.

[Thad]

You're never going to believe this, but I fixed the problem just now...

Story of my life.

Thanks for your help though!

[jalsina]

Opprinnelig skrevet av YouBlewIt:

You're never going to believe this, but I fixed the problem just now...

Story of my life.

Thanks for your help though!

It´s always like this with all mods. They stop working and the next minute you do something and all fine.