Are there any sound tutorials?

[ChrisBarnes]

Hi all,

The title says it all really. Basically, does anyone know of a tutorial that shows how to replace the default sounds with new ones, and how exactly you make the new sounds. I'm completely baffled about what you must do when you make the sounds in a editor, such as adding cue points. At first I cut and edited an mp3 in an editor into 44.1KHz, mono .wavs, edited the appropriate .proxyxml and when I test it it's silent. Hours of work gone to nothing. I and many others would be very grateful if someone could point out any tutorials that I might have missed, or even write a new tutorial, which would be excellent.
I reckon that there would be many more people contributing their work if there was more, good quality tutorials for anything. Perhaps a tutorial database would solve this problem.

Thanks
Chris

[metrobus]

This is about chuff sounds
Edward

[67016]

The Mp3 needs to be converted to a .wav or .dav for it to work

[metrobus]

We did do that
Edward

[ChrisBarnes]

Thanks 67016 for the suggestion, as Edward says the files were saved as mono 44.1KHz .wav. What doesn't make sense is that the whistle and brake squeal that Edward has made did not require anything fancy such as cue points added, they just work as intended (very nice they are too ). I don't understand why chuffs specifically need to be more complicated. As far as I know, there aren't any tutorials to help me understand that.
Going slightly off topic, but I feel this needs to be addressed. We often say on this forum that we need more freeware, and I fully back that up. However, how is anyone supposed to know what and how to make anything without a decent tutorial that takes you step by step? To me it doesn't seem so suprising that there isn't much freeware stuff coming other than from the veterans.

Regards
Chris

[ChrisBarnes]

What would be good is if there was a new sub forum for the RW forum called Tutorials (there was discussion on a database of information a few weeks ago wasn't there?). There, those that have the knowhow of this, that and the other could write a simple, easy to understand tutorial on ANYTHING to do with developing new content for RW. I know I could personally write a few Photoshop tutorials on simple and efficient tricks that might make someone think "I'd like a go at that", not "way too much jargon in this for me". The point is that it would encourage slot more people to just have a go and get stuck in. We already have some excellent tutorials, such as the reskin setup one by JiveBunny. It's these that have made me successful and other things where there aren't any tutorials is where I go wrong. More tutorials makes sense .

Regards
Chris