For Phil:
The diesel sounds good to me. One small comment on the idle file. As you said, I do hear the “pop-off” and right after a non-voiced tick. Is the tick an artifact of the file? It’s not really a problem but it is there.
On notching, I think on previous VSD post someone pointed out that a loco will move (depending on train load) with the diesel at idle. That is the diesel remains at idle (notch 0) and the field windings of the generator are energized thus powering the traction motors. This being said, I modified your notch settings to 0-33, 33-67 and 67-100.
For engine gain, a check of several config files shows :
<sound name="ENGINE" type="diesel3">
<fade-in-time>0</fade-in-time>
<fade-out-time>0</fade-out-time>
<gain>0.8</gain>
<start-sound>
So this is why I could never change the level of the engine sounds, interesting. Need to mod config for <engine-gain>0.8</engine-gain>.
Finally, you have found the VSD guru – Klaus Killinger!
For Klaus: My apologies for not responding to your PM of 11/13. Your RDC mod worked very well. I just got frustrated as I could not replicate your fix. I tried and tried with no success so I took a break from VSD and just ran the trains. My apologies again.
Conrad
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