Atomic Systems

Hi all,
The release of this pack is coming soon. With the help of Lisboa Santos, we have created a 10 Engine sound set. Why 10 sound sets. The main reason is it gets rid of the jet engine sound that is produced using two of the same locos hooked together playing the same sound set. But with this many different sound sets, you can hook up so many different sound combinations, which increases realism and lends to variety of the sound one hears. I did the sounds and Lisboa did the lighting enhancements. I'm also going to be releasing a 10 Engine ES44 Sound Set. I'm also very close to releasing my new Wagons Sound Pack. Its still based on the previous version, except almost all the defective wheel sounds have been replaced. On the original version if you use #4 camera, virtually every car that passed you had defective wheels. Not like that in real life. In this new pack I was able to figure out how to have it every car doesn't have defective wheels. Plus I've added a sound that plays constant, I call it perfect wheel: the sound of a wheel with no defects rolling on the rail. Or you can say: the sound of the rail when a wheel rolls on it. The end result is you hear this perfect wheel sound in the background, but when a car doesn't have defective wheel sound trigger, you really hear this perfect wheel sound. Much more life like. I don't know how many of you guys are into US stuff, this is the reason for this post. Should I upload here, or if you guys don't think its worth it, you can get it at RailWorks America. This question is concerning all the sound packs. thanks for your time.

Wally.

Hi Wally

I for one have been waiting for this sound set to be released! I heard/saw your demo a while ago and I was knocked out then with the individual sounds. I've always really liked your freight car soundset, and they are light years better than the default set! This is another great step forward and shows just what can be achieved with TS2012. Personally, it would work for me whether you posted the sets here or on Railworks America. I know there are guys here who like the US railroad scene, but I'm sure they frequently check out the US sites like I do.

Anyway, many grateful thanks for all your work producing these sets. I should Imagine there's many hours' head-banging and frustration involved! You are a top man

Thanks Krellnut for this post. Although I don't have the SD70, I've found the SD40-2 wonderful to listen to after your clever sound modification. Also, I'm grateful that you explain the cause of the jet engine sound found in railworks....I had thought that to be either due to my on-board sound not be adequate to the task or a bug in railworks (well, I suppose it is a limitation in railworks afterall).

Double heading was also commonplace amongst the British 1st generation of diesels/ electrics, that being so, it means either avoiding double heading in railworks, or hopeing for a clever sound mod for the particular loco's.

Thanks very much for sharing this.

Really great news - been waiting for this since I saw the previews

Thanks for posting your news over here on our forum Wally, there are quite a few of us Brits, and Europeans, that play with all the American Railroad content currently available, both uploaded into the UKTS library and freely available on the Railworks America website, so, we appreciate the heads up, especially with your wonderful sound packs, they're fantastic.

Cheerz. Transport Steve.

hokitika67 wrote:Double heading was also commonplace amongst the British 1st generation of diesels/ electrics, that being so, it means either avoiding double heading in railworks, or hopeing for a clever sound mod for the particular loco's.

Probably not as good as multiple different samples, but there is a way to add some randomness to the engine notes to make (e.g.) double-headed 37s sounds better.

Have a look at the end of this thread (it went a little OT!):
http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 1&t=124153

Very much looking forward to these new sounds Thankyou for sharing them with us.
To me half of the picture is missing when the sounds are poor, these make it complete.

Mark