Hi,I am trying to alias one sound to another folder,eg, I want to alias a RR sound to the GE sound folder of the same aircraft, not authentic for some I know, but this is just me I suppose.I tend to only fly the RR variant of the texture set of my PMDG 777, but I need to alias this sound in the GE and PW folders as well.can anyone please tell me how this is done.Many Thanks,

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Hi,For a 'how-to' in aliasing sounds, panels, etc. try using the 'Search' function. May be some help.Good luck.Jack

You can alias sounds from another aircraft by replacing the sound.cfg with one you've made up containing the following lines:{fltsim}alias=B737_400soundChange the squiggly brackets around {fltsim} to square brackets. Of course this would alias the default 737 sounds, change the folder name to reflect the sounds you're aliasing.If all of your sounds reside in subfolders of a single aircraft folder such as "PMDG 777sound.PW", "PMDG 777sound.RR", and "PMDG 777sound.GE", then a simple modification to the aircraft.cfg will do the trick. Just change the "sound=" line in each of the {flightsim.X} sections to "sound=RR".Jim

Hello Jim,I am sort of following you here, can you give me an example please,lets say that I want to alias a single sound set in the PMDG Sound folder, into the PMDG RR and GE sound folders, so in effect I am just using the one sound set in the Sound folder, but aliasing this in the GE & PW sound folders as well,this, obviously saves having to copy over the exact same sounds in to three folders, and saves on the HDD space.thanks for you're help with this,it's something very basic to some people I know, but it's something that I have never bothered with until now.

I don't know how PMDG has their sound folders set up as I don't have any of their aircraft. What is the full path to the "PMDG Sound folder"? Is it a seperate folder under FS9Aircraft, or a subfolder of one of the PMDG aircraft folders?In any case, I'd guess that the aircraft.cfg modification is what you need to do. Look at your aircraft.cfg and find the {flightsim.x} section for a variant that uses the RR sounds (may be {flightsim.0}, {flightsim.1}, {flightsim.5} or whatever). Copy & paste whatever you find after the sound= line of that section to all the other {flightsim.x} sections and all your variants will use the RR sound.Otherwise I suppose you could rename your existing sound.cfg files in the GE and PW folders to sound.old (for backup purposes), and drop a new sound.cfg in each, aliasing them to the RR folder using the lines I posted above. Just change the "B737_400sound" part of it so that it points to wherever the RR sounds are located.Really need more info on exact paths and folder names to be able to tell you exactly what to do.Best wishes,Jim

"PMDG 777"?Are you using FlyII? The only PMDG777 I know of was for FlyII. If that is the case and this is not just a typo then search the Fly II forum.Regards, Carlos