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Have a new to me Santa Fe F-3 with PS2.  Have used DCS for several years but just now trying to use the Doppler Loop feature.  I can go into the Sound menu and set up the doppler loop with the S1 and S2 keys and the use the soft keys to turn it on and it seems to work as advertised.  The engine runs around the loop and gets loudest at the desired point, and the horn shows a doppler shift.  As it goes around the back side of the loop it fades completely out.  It will do this for many loops.

 

Two questions.

 

1. How is the Doppler button on the remote supposed to work?  I turn it on while the engine is running and it immediately cuts out the sound ( very abrupt and annoying).  Then it will perform a Doppler pass one time and then remain silent for as long as you leave it alone.  Pressing the Doppler button again brings the sound back (again very abruptly).  I would expect it to continue to make multiple doppler passes if left alone, as it does when activated from the Sound screen menu.  Am I doing something wrong?

 

2.  Is there any way to set a "minimum" volume for the back side of the loop?  My layout is relatively small and would be nice to at least here a faint horn as the sound portion of the doppler pass is only about 8 to 10 feet.  Not long enough to make any kind of crossing horn.

 

 

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1. It's behaving as intended for what MTH calls the "one-shot" Doppler mode.

 

doppler one shot

2. No adjustment of minimum background volume.

 

Their Doppler represents what you hear if standing by the track and a train passes.  So in a larger layout at a club or show you can use the one-shot mode to have the Doppler peak right as it passes a guest/visitor.  Then you can trigger it again for another guest standing somewhere else.

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