I have been playing around with the various sounds on the PA46T. One of the most glaring omissions seemed to be that you could hear the sound of cabin and cargo doors open, but no sound when they closed.Looking in the Sound folder, I saw there was a wav file called "doorclose". I went and looked into the sound.cfg for the entries and saw that the Exit Close entry had been mislabeled. It showed the filename of the sound as "opendoor". I changed it to "closedoor" and adjusted the volumes a bit and now you can hear the doors open and close.By modifying your sound.cfg, you can now hear the complete door sounds.As always, make and save a copy of your sound.cfg before modifying it.Here is the original sound entries for the door-[EXIT_OPEN]filename=opendoorflags=0viewpoint=1initial_volume=3151minimum_volume=0maximum_volume=8000[EXIT_CLOSE]filename=opendoorflags=0viewpoint=1minimum_volume=6000maximum_volume=6000This is my modified sound entry-[EXIT_OPEN]filename=opendoorflags=0viewpoint=1initial_volume=3151minimum_volume=0maximum_volume=10000[EXIT_CLOSE]filename=closedoorflags=0viewpoint=1minimum_volume=0maximum_volume=10000The bold type shows the changes I made to get all door sounds working. Now if I can figure out how to get the switch clicks working, too.

Good catch and thanks for the fix. The switches may need some extra module. At least that's what I recall from other releases like Aerosoft or MilViz.

I think your right about that. Looking over the sound.cfg, I could not find any section for the switches. Looking into the sound folders for my Cessna Mustang, it was the same. I could not find a wav for the switch click sound. The switch sounds in the Mustang must be somewhere in the Mustang folder, but I haven't found them yet.Another sound I want to improve for the Malibu is the table sliding in and out. I can't find where it is listed either.Bill

Edited February 23, 201214 yr by Lifeguard911

I think any event the FSX engine knows about can be defined in that sound.cfg. Like crashing, doors and even the seatbelt signs. Now the custom VC switches are another ballgame and the other devs seem to use an extra gauge and some extra sound folder for it. MilViz does, Aerosoft on the Katana and even Twotter, Wilco/Feelthere, CS and so on.I don't have any xml skills, but maybe the folks like Bert can go for a sound gauge, reading the switch activation (must trigger some event) and then issuing a sound. But that's a lot of work for some switches.

taguilo have added sounds to C208 cockpit and you need to do that with a sound gauge and accompanying XML gauge that address each switch/button/keypress. I have gone further and completed the rest that he did not do.http://forum.avsim.net/topic/361398-caravan-cockpit-sounds-gauge/I am in the process to do simmilar for malibu and should be finished one of the days.

Another sound I want to improve for the Malibu is the table sliding in and out. I can't find where it is listed either.Bill

Same as above. Will only be possible to add via additional sound XML with sound gauge. It is not something that you can set in sound.cfg.Sound.cfg is very limited for only specific objects. Anything outside that reference need to be done outside the sound.cfg. The FSX SDK have a list what can be added and Sound.cfg

And the tweaking goes on. :( Anyway, me is applauding to the efforts involved.

I think your right about that. Looking over the sound.cfg, I could not find any section for the switches. Looking into the sound folders for my Cessna Mustang, it was the same. I could not find a wav for the switch click sound. The switch sounds in the Mustang must be somewhere in the Mustang folder, but I haven't found them yet.Another sound I want to improve for the Malibu is the table sliding in and out. I can't find where it is listed either.Bill

Hi Bill,as far as I can recall these kind of sounds are all located in the FSX/Sound - folder!

Edited February 23, 201214 yr by andy1975

Thanks a bunch for the sound fix, Lifeguard! Much appreciated.Cheers,Fritz