The Sound of Silence🔇

[lvlender]

Unlike the song by Simon & Garfunkel, the SD70m does not exist in silence. But, that is just my problem.

I downloaded MSTS NS SD70M #2584 (File ID 63141). In the readme file, the author notifies me that,
“The engines are silent until the first throttle movement.”

Well, they are silent all the time.

In an attempt to gain sound, I copied the sound files found resident in my SLI NS ENGINES folder. I correctly pointed the ‘ns2584.eng’ file to the imported sound folder.

No joy.

What would cause the engine sound not to work? ns2584.jpg

[yellowdog]

Is this happening in the cab, external, or both?

[lvlender]

Both. No engine sound but, the sound of the wheels rolling on the tracks works. Birds, car horns, air pressure noises can be heard.

[derekmorton]

>MSTS NS SD70M #2584 locomotive. A repaint of Grant Culbert's SD75I locomotive. Repaint by Dennis Mutulo. Sounds aliased to 3DTrainStuff SD70

You did not notice that the sounds are aliased.

Post the eng file so we can see your settings.

[yellowdog]

Both. No engine sound but, the sound of the wheels rolling on the tracks works. Birds, car horns, air pressure noises can be heard.

All of those sounds are route sounds, not loco sounds.

If both cab and external sounds are missing, it seems like you don't have the correct sounds installed (as noted above), or have not correctly pointed to their folder. ORTS log should tell you about this error. The other possibility is that there's a missing bracket somewhere in the eng file that's causing an error before ORTS even reads the lines dedicated to sounds.

[lvlender]

My bad. I had the sound file settings pointing to the wrong soundfile. Rookie error. (uh wait, I am a rookie! )
Thanks again for everyone's suggetions.