Hello all, yeah this is a really odd question in my mind that I almost feel awkward to ask, but out of curiosity, is it at all possible to sort of tweak the way a whistle sounds on a Lionel legacy rail sounds tender? Like could you change the tone or pitch of the whistle even slightly?
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Oh yeah, I meant to say that obviously you can quill the whistle with the cab 2 remote, but I mean like modifying the soundboard to change the whistle's sound.
Maybe a Legacy control system firmware upgrade? 
I've wondered about this myself from time to time and in particular whether there is any system limitation/difference in Legacy that prevents the uploading of sound files as you can do in DCS. Of course as I understand the latter does not allow you to tweak individual sound effects in the way you describe but merely full sound files.
I think that the answer is that Lionel will not end users modify their proprietary system in any material respect and that includes whistle and horn sounds. Of course they have tweaked their own offerings lately. If you check out the sound sets now available for Electric RR Company's Railsounds Commander you will see that they are considerably improved over their original RS4 offerings.
P.S. My particular hobby horse is that I'd love to have a Lionel O scale Veranda Turbine with the sound effects that Lionel's old HO version of this engine has, including a full turbine start-up sequence, which is now offered for DCC by Quantum. I've never understood why something similar is not offered for 3 rail O scale but have assumed that there's a system memory limitation.
No, At this point the manufactures have not allowed that level of changed. The Lionel sounds are programmed onto chip. MTH does allow you to load a different sound file in there PS-2/3 products, but the whole file. You can't pick and choice specific sounds. G
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