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Does anyone know where I could download some sound effects? Things like animal sounds,Birds,Crickets, water surf, etc... I want to 'spice-up' my project with some sound effects, I know how to create the effects, I just can't seem to find any short .wav sound effect files. I have a few of the ORBX sound files, but not all of them. I tried ripping some from a sound fx CD, but the files are way too big and cause FSX to rapidly loose FPS severely.
 
IIRC, FSX' sound sub-system is limited to only 22,000 Hz, so CD audio quality at 40k / 48k Hz not necessarily going to even be heard.


I would use Audacity or an equivalent audio editor to edit at 48k, then down-sample to 22,000 Hz for use as linked WAV sounds in FSX.

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Free Sound Effects in WAV file format:

https://www.google.com/search?q=fre...DbIHATK4B6UBwgcDMi0zyAcQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

GaryGB
 
The Windows Direct-X Sound sub-system may be able to play 48kHz files elsewhere than in FSX, but IIRC, FSX may 'cap' at 22,000 Hz.

Also, one should always up-sample any WAV to 48kHz for editing; then down-sample for actual use (22,000 Hz is adequate for most apps.)

Otherwise audio quality degrades with each edit / save operation performed at lower sampling rates.

GaryGB
 
I edited it down to 20k ( there is no 22k in my sound editor) but still not working. this is just weird. I've always had problems with sound in FSX, wonder if it's a 'bug' or something wrong with my sound drivers. I tried updating the driver but the one I have is the only one available for this machine. It has a 'on-board' sound card, so I am limitted to whatever 'old' driver is available. All other sound effects work, just not the new one.
 
Modern sound chipsets on motherboards are actually rather high quality, and have trouble-free drivers with full feature sets. :pushpin:
 
I've really never had any sound problems on this thing it uses a AMD sound device and it has always worked flawlessly with great sound and very good quality. Dell does make great systems with the highest quality devices, they are just a bit proprietary in some areas. This thing was built back in the late 90s.
 
The nice thing about Dell (and Compaq / HP ...at least for a while), was they kept their driver sets available online for many years.

GaryGB
 
This is true, not many pc companies let you download driver sets for free, most of them make you pay a fee to download updates. I've always had a dell and always will.The nice thing is, that parts are readily available for them, and now even some after-market places carry dell stuff. Most all of the computer centers in my town deal with dell.
 
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