My new engine sound synthesizer program (vid inside)...

[MrBluGruv]

Greets guys,

Being a car lover and an electronic instrument designer, at some point about a year ago I decided to begin a project to bring together the two hobbies. Linked below is the culmination of this project up to this point ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pT7R4WFeHs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pT7R4WFeHs


Vid starts with a straight-six model, switches to V6, then to V8, with a lot of other variables thrown into the mix including some (kinda poor) approximations of displacement/pipe size on exhaust as well as lift/duration on idle and overlap, also a short snippet showing off a blown V8. The first V8 model shown was inspired by the mustang's modular engine, although it doesn't carry through as well on camera as it does in person.

Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated, especially how much you might be interested in such a toy to play with on your own PC desktop. :)

[Vortex]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=58744972954978 95885#docid=388133692331229596 7

[MrBluGruv]

are you kidding me man?

[magindat]

It's SWELL!

:lol:

[MrBluGruv]

maybe it's something you have to know a decent bit about programming to understand the depth of... :(

[MrBluGruv]

Updated my product recently, added new video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyur9neCmPs

[LeoVampire]

Lots of time spent working on that sound program that is for sure!

[Blackened300a]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=58744972954978 95885#docid=388133692331229596 7

What year is that from? Im guessing early 60s?

[MrBluGruv]

Lots of time spent working on that sound program that is for sure!


Thanks. :)

It kinda started as a toy for me to play with, when I first started on it I didn't own a vehicle with a V8 so I wanted a way to get that sound at will, then after I got the Marauder it sort of served as a tool for me to enjoy the sounds of a V8 without wasting gas or when I couldn't find the time to go out and drive. :P Now, I'm aiming to be able to sell the finished product for its most probably use as a foley artist tool.

Honestly, the sounds I'm most proud of right now are the supercharged Mustang and the rotary engine. It's HARD to approximate a piston driven engine, it's even harder to approximate a rotary engine with that same model.

[LeoVampire]

Thanks. :)

It kinda started as a toy for me to play with, when I first started on it I didn't own a vehicle with a V8 so I wanted a way to get that sound at will, then after I got the Marauder it sort of served as a tool for me to enjoy the sounds of a V8 without wasting gas or when I couldn't find the time to go out and drive. :P Now, I'm aiming to be able to sell the finished product for its most probably use as a foley artist tool.

Honestly, the sounds I'm most proud of right now are the supercharged Mustang and the rotary engine. It's HARD to approximate a piston driven engine, it's even harder to approximate a rotary engine with that same model.

But you need an old school big block Ford engine as one of them too! :D

GOD I miss the 428 CJ and 460 I had in a couple of cars and the sound of those engine's.

Had a 390 with a serious cam shaft in a 1964 Ford Dump truck with headers going right into the stack's and no one missed me comming down the road plowing in the winter time @ night you could see the flame's comming out the stacks! :eek:

[MrBluGruv]

Hahaha, I'm sure that was a hell of a sight. A buddy of mine had a 1978 Grand Marquis with the optional 460 for a while, it was a really nice car and I think he was the second owner. Funniest thing about it though was that it made horrible horsepower but had GOBS of torque. He could tap the gas and the car would lurch to the right but wouldn't hardly go anywhere. :P

[LeoVampire]

Hahaha, I'm sure that was a hell of a sight. A buddy of mine had a 1978 Grand Marquis with the optional 460 for a while, it was a really nice car and I think he was the second owner. Funniest thing about it though was that it made horrible horsepower but had GOBS of torque. He could tap the gas and the car would lurch to the right but wouldn't hardly go anywhere. :P

I had a 77 Grand Marquies with the 460 and a stupid 2bl carb.

Old Ford big blocks had a lot of interchangeable parts so if you knew what to do and look for you could make a monster engine interchanging the parts between them.

Went to the junk yard and picked up a set of 429 head's ported them did larger valves and adjustable rockers instead of the solid railed one's shaved them down and set them up on a flow bench.

With a low rise 4bl intake and Holly double pumper.

Gained almost 250 horses with that set up alone.

In the mid to late 70's there was a gas crunch and they were using an odd even number license plate set up for you to be able to get gas for your car and only a certain number of gallons each time.

So Ford put small port heads on the big blocks with small valve's and a 2bl carb to tune it down and get better gas milage so it killed the engine unless it was already moving in the first place.

Those 460's need a lot of intake to run properly!

[MrBluGruv]

No doubt. Unfortunately he had to sell it already, so the car is no longer with us. :( Even a friend of ours though with I wanna say a 1970 Continental had a 460 in it, WAAAAY more ponies but I'm pretty sure that was before the crunch you mentioned.

[mrjones]

I didn't realize they ever put a 2bbl on a 460.

[LeoVampire]

I didn't realize they ever put a 2bbl on a 460.


Motorcraft 2150 series carb normaly used on the 351 and 400 engine's.

Back in the late 60's the 2100 series was even used on the 429 if someone wanted it.