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Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by ttul »

dekhn wrote: post #37
ricktdotorg wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i too would be very interested in this! i am for now a petrol head but continue to be fascinated and also mildly irked by the varying EV sounds. some sound like galactic spaceships, some like weapons, some like "blurred mechanical noise", and some are almost indescribable in words. some can be semi-nightmarish. i'd love to play with a soundboard that had all the different EV manuf sounds on it.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWxrK_3LlEr9WsfOL8N41... I absolutely love the reverse sound my Toyota RAV4 Prime (hybrid) makes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUT94MBt_Ao To me, it sounds like the future. Sort of a hovering UFO. People's heads definitely turn when I back out of my driveway.

When I first got a RAV-4 hybrid, I had no idea that this sound was being pumped out of a speaker. I thought it was an artifact of the electric motor. As it happens, companies spend a lot of time designing their unique electronic sound as a signature of the vehicle. My dog has learned to recognize the sound and he barks when the car is as much as 1km away.

Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by rzzzt »

jonwinstanley wrote: post #38

This is great! For a game I was making years ago, I tried to make a “crowd noise” generator. As in for a football/soccer match. But it was not my skillset and I failed miserably. Does anyone know of something that might get me started?

A non-procedural approach might be easier: collect loops of baseline murmurs / elevated cheering / peak ecstatic crowd and vary the volume of each based on what is happening on screen. If you have variants of each "energy level" you can also smoothly fade between them, queuing the next one randomly as the current version runs out. This way the wrap-around point should not be that noticeable.

Something similar is done for music that varies according to gameplay intensity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_music

Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by LoganDark »

jachee wrote: post #34
mywittyname wrote: post #31

Pretty cool! Downshifting under braking doesn't feel accurate. Most fast cars brake like 2-4x their acceleration rate, but in this sim, the braking feels more like 100x. The sound of an engine under decel is just as awesome as acceleration.

Deceleration is where you get fuel overrun and backfires, too! VrOOOOooomm-pa-pop-pow-ooooom.

Slightly off-topic, but I hate when people modify their engine / exhaust system to do this on purpose, just to be obnoxious. You're not cool, dude. You're just a jerk.

Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by addled »

buildsjets wrote: post #32
xnx wrote: post #16

Tangentially: Does anyone know where to find a collection of the low speed sounds emitted by electric vehicles (in the US at least)? I'd be interest to hear the different approach different manufacturers have taken.

I’m not going electric unless I can choose the Hampsterdance as my motor sound.

On the one hand, yes!

But more realistically, think of the headache of trying to keep your engine's Hampsterdance in sync with the Hampsterdance blaring from your car's stereo, (as it naturally would be).

Not to mention all the other excellent tracks on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampsterdance:_The_Album

Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by sangnoir »

jonwinstanley wrote: post #38

This is great! For a game I was making years ago, I tried to make a “crowd noise” generator. As in for a football/soccer match. But it was not my skillset and I failed miserably. Does anyone know of something that might get me started?

This is sometimes known as "walla". This tutorial is specific to Sound Particle (audio app), but the basics can be implemented easily from scratch. https://youtu.be/nigFrC2mORk?si=Cktdb3aTrIs5vUbB

Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by [deleted] »

LoganDark wrote: post #53
jachee wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Deceleration is where you get fuel overrun and backfires, too! VrOOOOooomm-pa-pop-pow-ooooom.

Slightly off-topic, but I hate when people modify their engine / exhaust system to do this on purpose, just to be obnoxious. You're not cool, dude. You're just a jerk.

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Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by xnx »

ttul wrote: post #51
dekhn wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWxrK_3LlEr9WsfOL8N41... I absolutely love the reverse sound my Toyota RAV4 Prime (hybrid) makes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUT94MBt_Ao To me, it sounds like the future. Sort of a hovering UFO. People's heads definitely turn when I back out of my driveway.

When I first got a RAV-4 hybrid, I had no idea that this sound was being pumped out of a speaker. I thought it was an artifact of the electric motor. As it happens, companies spend a lot of time designing their unique electronic sound as a signature of the vehicle. My dog has learned to recognize the sound and he barks when the car is as much as 1km away.

Video coincidentally posted today that details some of the design requirements of these sounds: "What should an electric car sound like?" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAGXvVNMB8)
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