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Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by hyperific »

imiric wrote: post #49
hyperific wrote: post #36

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^^ This. I thought the same thing. I want to rig up a optical encoder to a bicycle tire and use the output to drive the engine simulator - make my bicycle sound like a sports car.

Way overengineered... Back in my day we were happy with sticking a plastic bottle between the tire and frame :) Looks like kids still do it today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWRv17qvM0s

Granted, but can a plastic bottle be modified to make my bike sound like a Star Wars speeder bike?

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Post by vardump »

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.

Seems like a great choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpMlwVwydo

I think I'll petition NHTSA etc. to make this song mandatory for electric vehicles.

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Post by [deleted] »

rootusrootus wrote: post #39
dylan604 wrote: post #28

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Shortly after moving into my current place, I would randomly hear this hum that for the life of me I could not figure out what it was. I had even looked at maps to look for some sort of place nearby that might make sense. It wasn't a constant hum, and there was seemingly no schedule for it. A week ago, I just happened to be in my drive way instead of the fenced backyard when I heard the noise. It was my neighbor's EV

There was a short moment when I thought the future looked like no fumes and no noise (well, at least no engine noise; tires are quite loud at speed). And then the government decided that EVs should not be quieter than ICEVs, in fact they should be louder . And some of the hybrids on the roads (looking at you, Toyota) are the loudest of them all. Different strategies for different cars, though. My neighbor's Highlande…

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Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by akira2501 »

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 recently started getting something related in my youtube recommendations and that is the recordings of PWM motor signals from japanese and american trains[0]. There's also people building their own boards and motors to generate these same waveforms[1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgxlM_kiDL0 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0B2bvd9rFQ

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Post by inasio »

Free startup idea: Restomod an old Porsche/Mustang into electric and keep the rumble and feel of a big V8.

Needs: Engine sounds, haptic seats, and a few small modifications (e.g. clutch pedal, gear stick)

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Post by repler »

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

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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.

I think you’re the only one.

I wouldn’t mind as much if the volume wasn’t 5 times louder in reverse than drive.

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Post by adolph »

It would be interesting to see an engine sound sim with various malfunctions, sort of like the call-in part of Click and Clack.

Just this afternoon my daughter asked why a car was making a particular sh-hiss between some cylinder beats and I speculated it was a small head gasket leak between cylinders allowing some of the ignited gases to expand into exhaust. Maybe it was something else though, maybe crispy cooked feline remains against a fan belt.

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Post by genewitch »

jkingsman wrote: post #23
elromulous wrote: post #14

If you liked this, y'all owe it to yourselves to checkout AngeTheGreat's channel. It's truly amazing work. https://youtube.com/@angethegreat

Absolutely — the procedurally generated fluid-sim engine sound generator is just wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bJTkBsiTPc .

if you get to the 0.1.11a release and are annoyed that you have to manually edit some file to change engines, you can use 0.1.14a of the community edition of the software https://github.com/Engine-Simulator/engine-sim-community-edi...

it is almost the same except has some severe qol improvements.

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