Sound Management (SMS) Editing Tutorial?

[ZachBell4400]

After working with modifying horns for my St. Croix Valley Railroad's GP9 #1363, running the engine in OR seemed to recently cause headaches in terms of horn response. The stock SMS files (from the payware TrainSimulations' Mullan Pass) were made for an EMD 16-645E3, when the prototype itself was designed to have a 16-567C prime mover. I would like to understand the importance of being educated in the aspect of SMS file interpretation and possible modification as to see fit. With that being said, I wonder if an SMS editing tutorial (for novices and beginners) can be developed, with a downloadable PDF and step-by-step instructions.

The SMS Checker V5.1 (available here in the File Library) is very useful in detecting errors in brackets or stream numbers, or any mistakes in spacing. I used it to check for spacing errors and I can opt to fix upon detection. Slipperman did a great job with the software and I recommend it as well.

[slipperman]

Hi Zach,
Thanks for the compliment and recommendation

The Steam4Me site had a tutorial on .sms files, which might be of interest.
It's available here : https://web.archive.org/web/20180608.../sms_doku.html

There is also a tutorial on making sounds for MSTS :

https://web.archive.org/web/20180610120547/http://msts.steam4me.net/tutorials/makesound_01.html

Cheers,
Ged

[npbruce]

The Coals to Newcastle site also has a good SMS explanation in their Physics ==> Rolling Stock Configuration ==> Sounds Setting. Here is the address:

http://www.coalstonewcastle.com.au/physics/sounds/

Toward the bottom of the article (before the "Working with .WAV Files" section), there is also another link to some advanced sound configuration examples by Roger van Duijnhoven.

[npbruce]

(Sorry: That second link is just to their home page. Haven't quite figured out the "Add a link" button.......!)