Running ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ_WjCrtmgk )ps2 and ps3 rev L 4.20. i would like a horn blast every minute or so and location on track does not matter.
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Presumably you will be actively using the remote doing "normal" things like changing speed/direction of different engines while this horn blasting is going on "in the background" so to speak?
I'll leave it to the DCS operating experts to answer if this can be done. I was going down a different path thinking if DCS does not allow you to do this, then how about a sound board that simply has a sound track with the intermittent horn. It could be placed, say, in a dummy engine - it looks like you might have a few in your consists.
For example, I'm putting the guts of an MP3 player (with speaker) onto a piece of rolling stock. The MP3 sounds are stored on an SDHC card which can hold hours (actually days) of hi-quality sound. I described the hardware in part in that other thread about adding a speaker to a dummy engine. So you'd could record different horn blasts or effects as MP3 sound files. Each "song" could be a horn blast followed by 60 seconds (or whatever of silence). These MP3 players cycles thru all the different MP3 files on the memory card automatically. You will never run out of memory since even the smallest cards now hold hours (well more like days) of sound.
So if you're trying to create the effect of a busy train yard or whatever, you could have different horn sounds giving the illusion of additional activity popping up from random directions albeit from the same source.
It's about $7 for the MP3 player with speaker and maybe $3 for a power supply module to convert track AC to DC. You probably have a SDHC card from your last digital camera...or these players also accept USB thumb-drives. So maybe $15 in parts albeit some PC work to download or record horn sound files and put them onto a memory card or stick.
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Use Record/Playback to make a recording of the horn going off every how often you like. Then, run the session looped while you do whatever else you want to with the engine.
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