Short Toots in MTH Sound Files

Good point, I will look this over.  Some, but not all locos have the crossing sequence on the pre-programmed soft keys.  However, I don't care for it as it sounds unnatural compared to what you hear in real life.  Some engineers have different lengths they do each and not all long sequences are the same.  Many times the last long sequence is longer than the initial two long sequences.  I hear this all the time from the crossing nearest my house.

Nice work, Mark.

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Mark, soft key on most sound files is short horn blast.

F24 Single Horn Blast

https://mthtrains.com/20-20484-1

Nice, I like the ability to do it yourself. The built in one sounds odd to me for some reason.

Does this mean I could use this technique to add Christmas music to my holiday train

There is both a short horn blast and a crossing signal in many MTH sound files.

Matt Makens posted:

Does this mean I could use this technique to add Christmas music to my holiday train

You could but most engines that I've looked at only have room a few seconds (maybe 5-15) of new sounds using 24 bit PCM and and maybe a minute or so using the lower resolution 4 bit ADPCM.

What if I replaced the PFA files

I thought you could broadcast music through a MTH locomotive,

Found it

You can Clem.

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who dislikes the "short" whistle sound on MTH engines.  Thanks for posting the how-to help.

On real EMD F-units, which had the whistle valve mounted in the ceiling, if the locomotive had the short lever, you could really sound crisp whistle signals.  Others had the longer lever, and those were not quite as crisp, but did allow for quilling the whistle.  With Leslie S5L, you could pull slowly on the whistle cord and get each of the five to start blowing in sequence, if you worked hard enough at it.

However, I still like a crisp whistle signal.  Thanks again.

Number 90 posted:

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who dislikes the "short" whistle sound on MTH engines.  Thanks for posting the how-to help.

On real EMD F-units, which had the whistle valve mounted in the ceiling, if the locomotive had the short lever, you could really sound crisp whistle signals.  Others had the longer lever, and those were not quite as crisp, but did allow for quilling the whistle.  With Leslie S5L, you could pull slowly on the whistle cord and get each of the five to start blowing in sequence, if you worked hard enough at it.

However, I still like a crisp whistle signal.  Thanks again.

Hi Tom... Remember the days when you could actually identify the Engineman in the dark of the night  by the way he blew the whistle. 

GRJ: "There is both a short horn blast and a crossing signal in many MTH sound files."

What is the short blast called?  I've never seen it.

It is S01 on my PS3 diesels. It’s not on my PS2 engines

Thanks.  I never use those unnamed softkeys.

yes S01 as posted and SXS??

Soft keys, Sounds: crossing sounds

Totally reviving this thread from the dead here. Does this mean a similar technique could be used to potentially program in custom horn and bell sounds using Audacity? 

Yes, my program can do that. Not real simple but take it one step at a time. Instructions on my ADPCM web page. There are issues about how much free space is available in the engine's memory.