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Proposal for sound handling and momentum integration

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William Brillinger:
Agreed, I will change the word Cancelled to Overridden.

- IF the user decreased the throttle to 30% auto-notching brings the sound down to notch 3 and manual notching is overridden.
- IF the user increased the throttle to 50% or 60%, notching does not change.
- IF the user increased the throttle to 70%, auto notching increases to notch 7 and manual notching is overridden.

William Brillinger:
Current Copy of the Proposal

2015-10-17 Railpro feature requests - momentum integration.pdf

Josephbw:
Bill it sounds like a good idea, but not being all that familiar with Rail Pro, I have a question. Is the notching done with separate buttons on the HC, while the throttle knob controls the speed?

Thanks, Joe

William Brillinger:
Manual Notching is done with separate buttons. This already exists in the railpro architecture.

What we are proposing here is to meld the two together to get a more realistic operation of the prime mover sounds, allowing you to spool all the way up (starting a heavy train) or all the way down (coasting) independent of the throttle setting - BUT to also detect changes to the throttle that indicate the prime mover should be changing.

So if you're coasting (sound at idle) at 50 mph, and drop to 35, the sound does not change, but when you decide to increase to 45mph, the sound will automatically ramp back up without any action beyond increasing the throttle.

Josephbw:
Lets say you get the train rolling and ramp up to notch 6 while the train speed is 5 MPH. Is this done with the throttle knob, and basically your momentum setting will slowly increase the speed?

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