Yeah its such a shame… not gonna buy it for now. The Releae took forever but for me right now its just an unfinished product.
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Its in the marketplace already.
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The sounds are fine on my system, which has an on-board creative sound blaster 3di chip and a fantastic control panel with equaliser, bass boost and all the rest. I listen through headphones so I don’t deafen everyone in the house, and THIS plane sounds as good as any of the default planes and better than any other payware plane I own so far. No looping, no echoing, no phasing. Turning into the wind with flaps extended produces a bass rumble which I’ve actually never heard in any other plane or sim; get your sound card set up PROPERLY guys and start living!
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I don’t think anyone is talking about the quality of the sound samples, but more their accuracy to the real aircraft. Or assuming they did capture them from a real plane, then their implementation of them.
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Alexander has always been really good at capturing mass and inertia. You can feel it in his DC-6 (and in his dozens of FSX/P3D projects).
Agree completely with your take.
Haven’t had chance to pilot this thing yet since I bought it this morning, but I have had another payware Twin Otter in Xp11 for a while. I’ll compare the sound when I get chance, I’m interested to know if there’s a difference.
I don’t think the TOTTER is meant to sound like a Dash-8 tbh, but lets see.
The “rumble” or buffeting does not need to be there in every case. It depends largely on the wings and a bit on the fuselage. When I started flying on gliders the training ones were very docile, big fat wings and they would announce a spin half an hour before it happened. The high speed laminar wings on the competition gliders gave you a “woosh” as a warning, when you started dropping out of the sky. No buffeting, no rumbling, the very second you were too far below the stall speed with a little bit of rudder input just sweet old spinning.
And the same goes for the roll. Heck even an Airbus 400m can do loops (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL_ZU6LZnAc) There is no reason why a Twotter cannot roll. Just because it is prohibited in normal operations does not mean the plane is incapable of it. Probably far from it even. Bush planes like these are comparatively to other planes built like tanks to withstand the short unpaved field abuse they get subjected to. And usually they have enough power to boot as they need that for their STOL capabilities.
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Surely anything which isn’t a music industry standard track sounds lousy on that set-up?
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My complaints about the sound have nothing to do with the quality of the samples, which actually sound good. It just seems like there are many weird transitions between them. Like prop rpm changes, in particular, don’t seem smooth. It sounds like they recorded it at max rpm and some cruise setting, and just fade between those two sounds depending on the RPM. The pitch of the audio doesn’t change with the pitch of the propellers. It actually sounds kind of like you have one prop at full fine and one at cruise setting when both are pulled back to about 85%. It’s very strange sounding.
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Like he said its not about the Samples Its what they did with the sound design. I think it needs some work.
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I agree with this from my limited flight time.
Good news is they said they did a bunch of smoothing yesterday (after everything was set for release) that will be pushed out with the first update, along with some other issues popping up on the official forums.
Well everything could be better I suppose, but the sounds are much better on my (distinctly average) setup than some people in this thread claim they are hearing. I don’t think it’s a reason for avoiding this plane, in fact there’s no reason for avoiding this plane if it’s your type of thing - thirteen planes for the price of one!
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For me it is. I think Sound is super important.
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I would agree with OnlyWheel here. For me, it’s pretty hard to look past the fact that it sounds like one of my prop governors has failed every time I pull the prop levers back. I won’t be buying it until it is fixed.
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You can’t possibly know that, what you have is an opinion, and without listening to what they can hear a relatively uninformed one by definition.
All you can say is that it sounds fine “to you”.
Yes that’s true, but I can compare it to all the default aircraft in my Premium Deluxe edition with several third party payware aircraft and even a few freeware planes with “legacy” sounds. The Twotter is up there with the best of those, and better than most, we’re definitely NOT talking about AH standard here!
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I agree with you on that. But its not quite up there with the Kodiak. The transition from forward to reverse thrust sounds much better there, but then I haven’t spent enough time with the Twotter to have a solid opinion yet.
There’s an official group flight later, and I’m sure we’ll see some of us here then too. Looking forward to it!
How do you know all this if you haven’t bought it yet?
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Youtube videos, my friend.
If you purchase from the marketplace it will take months to get updates… I am just confused as to why people use the marketplace. Its very easy to launch contrail and orbx before my flights to ensure I don’t have any updates.
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