Engine Sound Simulator

Reading a lot of the comments it seems that most people here are keen to have otherwise quiet cars fitted with fake sounds. While I appreciate there&#x27;s a safety aspect to making some sort of sound for pedestrians, I am actually looking forward to a future that makes cities and heavy traffic areas both quieter and cleaner. If you live in such areas, this would be a great quality of life improvement and dare I say, may improve property values in such places.<p>I&#x27;d hate to think that 20 years from now I&#x27;ll still be subject to morons deciding to delight the neighbourhood at 2am with their overblown engine sounds.

If you liked this, y&#x27;all owe it to yourselves to checkout AngeTheGreat&#x27;s channel. It&#x27;s truly amazing work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@angethegreat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@angethegreat</a>

Looks like this uses soundbanks instead of actually simulating an engine like AngeTheGreat&#x27;s simulator. The author of this one has published their source code here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;markeasting&#x2F;engine-audio">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;markeasting&#x2F;engine-audio</a>

Tangentially: Does anyone know where to find a collection of the low speed sounds emitted by electric vehicles (in the US at least)? I&#x27;d be interest to hear the different approach different manufacturers have taken.

OT, sound simulator related:<p>I recall a thunder simulator (generator?) from years ago. You could draw&#x2F;modify a “line” representing the ground surface, give it a few seconds, and it would output thunder. Early-ish internet days, Java applet. Might have been on a university web site.<p>I tried searching fairly recently and came up empty handed. Is it possible that <i>anyone</i> here on HN might remember this and have a reference? I would settle for a paper.

reminds me of this masterpiece: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RKT-sKtR970" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RKT-sKtR970</a>

I touch Theta param in the left part of it, and the sound disappears, all the numbers go mad into infinity and then become NaN. Also there&#x27;s no sound if none is selected in controls, but changing anything in controls makes the same effect -- all params spiral into infinity. Not fun.

More fun than I expected. Now I want more engine sounds. I wonder how hard it would be to contribute new engine models. Like, what is the recording process and processing required to build the source sounds.

This is great!<p>For a game I was making years ago, I tried to make a “crowd noise” generator. As in for a football&#x2F;soccer match.<p>But it was not my skillset and I failed miserably.<p>Does anyone know of something that might get me started?

Digital sound is criticized but creating fake analog sound is celebrated.<p>[1] Hyundai Ioniq 5 N <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HZczpFsv9ZY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HZczpFsv9ZY</a><p>[2] The Secret To Making Your Car Sound Like An Old F1 Racer Is Found Under Pressure <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jalopnik.com&#x2F;the-secret-to-making-your-car-sound-like-an-old-f1-race-1851576154" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jalopnik.com&#x2F;the-secret-to-making-your-car-sound-lik...</a>

I’ve got one of these. It’s called a toddler.

Reminds me of the sound racer v8[0]. This gismo was a lot more fun that people gave it credit for -- it read the rpm from the 12v signal in the power and modulated a v8 over fm. Had a blast in my little four cylinder sounding like a beefy v8!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soundracer.se&#x2F;?p=98&amp;p2=505" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soundracer.se&#x2F;?p=98&amp;p2=505</a>

Anyone know good tutorials for simulating drone&#x2F;airplane propeller sound?

Automation (game) does a pretty good job of simulating sounds: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GkU5KkF_L4I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GkU5KkF_L4I</a>

Partially related: I love the sounds of electric vehicles. They&#x27;re so futuristic and weird! If you close your eyes, you can imagine a spaceship instead of a car.

It would be interesting to see an engine sound sim with various malfunctions, sort of like the call-in part of Click and Clack.<p>Just this afternoon my daughter asked why a car was making a particular sh-hiss between some cylinder beats and I speculated it was a small head gasket leak between cylinders allowing some of the ignited gases to expand into exhaust. Maybe it was something else though, maybe crispy cooked feline remains against a fan belt.

Add buttons for people on mobile?

I&#x27;d like to hear a gas turbine sound simulator. It would be cool to hear a T700 (Blackhawk engine) enter the critical RPM ranges for example.

I liked to lie to people that my big old modular Thinkpad (the one with two bays for batteries, disk drives, cdroms, etc) had a tiny gas generator module in it to charge up the batteries, then I&#x27;d mime pulling the start cord, while surreptitiously playing a loud audio file of a chainsaw starting up and running, to prove it.

This would be great to load up onto an RPi and put into a kids toy. Maybe use it to pimp up one of those toddler steering wheel sets.

wow, most of the time the engine sounds of cars designed to go 0-100 quickly sounds super generic, but this i can actually get to sound like two different cars i&#x27;ve owned. I could almost get it to sound like a Lancer Evo X but there&#x27;s no blowoff or turbo sound... maybe in the next version!

This is amazing. I think a small amount of window dressing would make this a classic page people bookmark and return to frequently just for fun. Especially if that make it mobile friendly.<p>Like even just two pedals and two flappy shifters on screen with all those other tools hidden behind a collapse or whatnot.

See other similar funny stuff like electric drill sound simulation using phaseplant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=R1Ifle4q7Tw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=R1Ifle4q7Tw</a>

I managed to get negative RPM - cool!

Very cool, get to top RPM in gear 6 and drop down to gear 1 for an ear-rending shriek.

Pretty cool!<p>Downshifting under braking doesn&#x27;t feel accurate. Most fast cars brake like 2-4x their acceleration rate, but in this sim, the braking feels more like 100x.<p>The sound of an engine under decel is just as awesome as acceleration.

You can sort of &quot;heel and toe&quot; with the space and b keys, while shifting down. Use the same finger for both keys for added realism.

Around 5000 RPM I get transported to the back seat of a two-stroke Trabant struggling to reach 70 km&#x2F;h on a mild incline.

Tapping on the controls is broken. Typed text in gear number field is erased immediately.<p>The app sounds fun. Excited to try it again later.

I love that when you get to max RPM in 6th gear and then just downshift to 1st you hit comically high RPMs!

This is truly music to my ears!

hmm, I either don&#x27;t know how to use it or it doesn&#x27;t work in Safari

Absolutely delightful!<p>This is way more fun than it has any right to be.

Fun! Would be funner if it handled the money shift.

My 4 year old is loving this

The smile on my face...

This is really good!

This is way too fun.

Free startup idea: Restomod an old Porsche&#x2F;Mustang into electric and keep the rumble and feel of a big V8.<p>Needs: Engine sounds, haptic seats, and a few small modifications (e.g. clutch pedal, gear stick)