GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 ============================= ©Copyright 2002-2011, Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel - Some rights reserved P R E P A R E T O B E R O C K E D ! -------------------------------------- The GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 consists of forty-nine sets of replacement 16-bit sound effects for Hannu and Jukka Räbinä's EXCELLENT freeware racing game "GeneRally" v1.05 or higher. All of the game's sound effects have been replaced with new ones that sound *MUCH* better than the originals. The overall effect that I was trying to create with these sound packs was simply a "smell the exhaust, thundering, trackside ear-shattering, black-powdered-tire-rubber-in-yer-Coke" type of thing . Personally I think these new sound packs come fairly close... as close as you'll get without a pit pass :) In other words, the GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 is a compilation of absolutely the best, top-notch, most awesome, ear-shattering, and rockin' sound effects that you've ever heard for GeneRally! Race on over to http://gene-rally.com or http://forum.gene-rally.com on the Internet to find out all about this great freeware game! Forty-Nine Sound Packs ---------------------- The GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 now contains a total of forty-nine seperate sound packs, and currently has grown to more than a whopping 65 megabytes of ear-shattering sound effects goodness for GeneRally after it's installed! The "Sound Pack Pro 1" is for the Stock cars and larger V8s, while the "Sound Pack Pro 2" is better suited for the scream of the Formula cars during a full-field race (and also includes acceleration and downshifting sound effects). The "Sound Pack Pro 3" (which is identical to the "Sound Pack Pro 2" without the acceleration and downshifting sound effects mixed in), is better suited for time-trial sessions with the Formula cars (thanks for the suggestion, K3rmiT!). The "Sound Pack Pro 4" is ideal for a full-field Formula car race (similar to the "Sound Pack Pro 2"), and was created from trackside recordings of real Formula cars. You can really hear the race cars zoom by with this sound pack! The "Sound Pack Pro 5" is also ideal for a full-field race (similar to the "Sound Pack Pro 2" and the "Sound Pack Pro 4"), and was also created from recordings of a real race car. With this sound pack, it sounds like you're right there on the track in your race car! The "Sound Pack Pro Blank" requires a bit of further explanation. A lot of folks have previously asked throughout the years how to create a set of totally blank (quiet and soundless) WAV files for use as sound effects for GeneRally... hence the "Sound Pack Pro Blank". By the way, the totally "awesome" sound effects files included with the "Sound Pack Pro Blank" are all 22,050/16-bit/stereo, and were all originally "recorded" from dead-of-night digital silence ! The "Sound Pack Pro Diesel" is for the big-rigs and other large diesel engine trucks. Hear the chatter of the diesel engines, the blast of the air horns, and the whoosh of the air brakes with this sound pack... the only thing missing is the billow of the black smoke from the exhaust stacks! The "Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Beach Buggy", "Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Formula One", "Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Helicopter", "Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Sportscar", "Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Tank", and "Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Warrior" sound packs were all sound packs that I had originally created for (and were included with) Thomas "MoPower" Tschapka's "MicroMachines" car pack for GeneRally. Like the "Sound Pack Pro PC Indianopolis 500" and "Sound Pack Pro PC Stunts" sound packs (mentioned below), they are also classic oldschool PC racing goodness at it's best! The "Sound Pack Pro Music" sound pack is a rather strange one, and is only included with the Sound Pack Pro v8.0 as a novelty. The sound effects files are recordings of small Classical musical clips, as well as several Orchestral percussion instruments. Note that this sound pack is really only suitable for time-trial sessions, as the "engine" sound effect sounds like a jumbled mess with more than one race car on the track . Music clips composed and recorded by yours truly :) The "Sound Pack Pro PC Speaker Indianopolis 500" and "Sound Pack Pro PC Speaker Stunts" sound packs were recorded from the standard PC speaker sound effects that can be heard while playing Papyrus' "Indianopolis 500: The Simulation" and Broderbund's "Stunts" (circa 1989). These sound packs sound just like these two old games' classic PC speaker sound effects played on a 80286 PC from years past, and are as close as you'll get without powering up your antique 286 and actually playing these games :) The "Sound Pack Pro Remote Control Electric Car" and "Sound Pack Pro Remote Control Gas Car" sound packs are designed for any user-created cars for GeneRally modeled after real-world 1/10 scale remote-controlled cars. All of the sound effects were recorded from real 1/10 scale electric and gas-powered remote-controlled cars (with a little bit of the chainsaw from the PC game "DOOM" mixed in to the gas-powered version of the sound pack for good measure ). With these sound packs it sounds just like you're right there at your local RC track racing real remote-controlled cars! The "Sound Pack Pro Sailboat" is ideal for any user-created sailboats for GeneRally. When using this sound pack with any water tracks for GeneRally created specifically for boats, it sounds just like you're right there in the ocean cruising along in your sloop... Aye matey! Note that if the water level of the track is too deep, the sailboat sound effect (Engine.wav) will probably sound way too low in pitch. If this is the case, simply lower the water level slightly (using GeneRally's track editor for the specific track in question), or try using the higher-pitched version of the sound pack (see "Sound Pack Variations" below). The "Sound Pack Pro Warhead" sound pack was a sound pack that I had originally created for (and was included with) my previously released "Warhead Test Facility War Pack" missle war TC (total conversion) for GeneRally. There were some nice rocket engine and explosion sound effects included with that sound pack, so I decided to include it with the GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 for completeness sake :) Race on over to http://www.richnagel.net/grstuff.htm#warhead on the Internet for more information, and to download my "Warhead Test Facility War Pack" for GeneRally! Last but not least, the "Sound Pack Pro ZipZaps" sound pack was a sound pack that I had originally created for (and was included with) my previously released "ZipZaps" car and track pack for GeneRally. There were some nice sounding electric remote-controlled car sound effects included with that sound pack, so I decided to include it with the GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 as well :) Race on over to http://www.richnagel.net/grstuff.htm#zipzaps on the Internet for more information, and to download my "ZipZaps" car and track pack for GeneRally! Sound Pack Variations --------------------- Many of the sound packs have mono and stereo versions, as well as seperate versions that include higher-pitched engine sound effects. As an example, the "SoundPackPro # MonoP" and "SoundPackPro # StereoP" sound packs are the higher-pitched engine sound effects versions of the original sound packs, and are better suited for the faster user-created cars (due to the fact that most of the time the engine sound effects of these user-created cars usually sound too low in pitch when playing GeneRally). In other words, if the name of the sound pack ends with a capitol letter "P", that is a higher-pitched engine version of the original sound pack. Note that all of the new sound effects are 22,050/16-bit/mono, and 22,050/16-bit/stereo WAV files. Installation ------------ If you are upgrading from any previous version of the Sound Pack Pro, first manually delete and remove all of the various "Sound Pack Pro", "SoundPackPro", "MicroMachines", "Warhead", and "ZipZaps" sound pack directories (located in your "GeneRally\Sounds" directory) and all of the files contained in these directories before installing this new version of the Sound Pack Pro. To install the Sound Pack Pro v8.0, simply unzip the contents of GRSPak80.zip to your "GeneRally\Sounds" directory, and then run "Install.bat" from the Windows command prompt (or simply double-click on the "Install.bat" file within the Windows Explorer). Fire up GeneRally, and click on "Options" and "Advanced". Then select one of the following forty-nine sound packs: "SoundPackPro 1 Mono" "SoundPackPro 1 MonoP" "SoundPackPro 1 Stereo" "SoundPackPro 1 StereoP" "SoundPackPro 2 Mono" "SoundPackPro 2 MonoP" "SoundPackPro 2 Stereo" "SoundPackPro 2 StereoP" "SoundPackPro 3 Mono" "SoundPackPro 3 MonoP" "SoundPackPro 3 Stereo" "SoundPackPro 3 StereoP" "SoundPackPro 4 Mono" "SoundPackPro 4 MonoP" "SoundPackPro 4 Stereo" "SoundPackPro 4 StereoP" "SoundPackPro 5 Stereo" "SoundPackPro 5 StereoP" "SoundPackPro Blank" "SoundPackPro Diesel" "SoundPackPro DieselP" "SoundPackPro MM Buggy" "SoundPackPro MM BuggyP" "SoundPackPro MM F1" "SoundPackPro MM F1P" "SoundPackPro MM Heli" "SoundPackPro MM HeliP" "SoundPackPro MM Sport" "SoundPackPro MM SportP" "SoundPackPro MM Tank" "SoundPackPro MM TankP" "SoundPackPro MM War" "SoundPackPro MM WarP" "SoundPackPro Music" "SoundPackPro MusicP" "SoundPackPro PC Indy" "SoundPackPro PC IndyP" "SoundPackPro PC Stunt" "SoundPackPro PC StuntP" "SoundPackPro RC Elec" "SoundPackPro RC ElecP" "SoundPackPro RC Gas" "SoundPackPro RC GasP" "SoundPackPro Sailboat" "SoundPackPro SailboatP" "SoundPackPro Warhead" "SoundPackPro WarheadP" "SoundPackPro ZipZaps" "SoundPackPro ZipZapsP" from the "Sound Set" drop down box. Run a few laps during a time-trial session, and a few during a single full-field race. Hit the brakes, jam the gears, trade some paint, and pay attention to your crew chief! With the GeneRally Sound Pack Pro installed, it sounds like you're right there at the track... especially with the stereo versions :) Note that you may need to adjust some of the sound volumes from within GeneRally's "Advanced Options" menu for best results (see "Suggested Sound Volume Settings" below). By the way, if you have a sound card that supports "Environmental Audio Effects" (EAX) and/or "Creative Multi-Speaker Surround" (CMSS), you might want to enable those features as well... the Sound Pack Pro v8.0 sounds absolutely *PHENOMENAL* on my Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! (which supports these features) with quadraphonic speakers :) Suggested Sound Volume Settings ------------------------------- Engine Volume: 20% Skid Volume: 80% Effects Volume: 40% Programs and Utilities ---------------------- Extensive digital editing and mixing for the WAV files was performed using GoldWave v4.26 and Cool Edit Professional v1.20. The WAV files were compressed and decompressed using WavPack v4.60.1, with pitch adjustment using SoX Sound Exchange v12.17.3. Most of the original RAW and WAV format sound effects were extracted from Sound Ideas' "Speed Sound Effects" demo, CART Precision Racing, Hard Truck 2, IndyCar Racing 2, NASCAR Racing 2, NASCAR Racing 3, NASCAR Legends, and the NASCAR Racing 2002 demo using L3DEC v2.74, PodView v1.0, UNPACK v1.0, and Rad Game Tools versions 4.0i and 1.9q. A lot of the WAV format sound effects were recorded by myself, using various real 1/10 scale electric and gas-powered remote-controlled cars, 1/64 scale Radio Shack "ZipZaps" remote-controlled cars, as well as the tiny internal PC speaker in my old 486DX4-100. The small Classical musical MIDI clips included with the "Sound Pack Pro Music" sound pack were recorded directly from my Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! sound card using a custom SoundFont of mine "¥Weeds¥ General MIDI SoundFont v3.0", were composed on a Casio CZ-1 keyboard (yeah I know it's old, damn thing weighs a ton too ), and sequenced using Twelve Tone Systems' Cakewalk Professional v3.01. If you're looking for a *SUPERB* sounding MIDI SoundFont to load into your EMU-8000 (AWE32/AWE64), EMU-10K (Audigy/SBLive!), or EMU-20K (X-Fi) hardware, or for use with Ian Luck's freeware media player "XMPlay" (with XMPlay's MIDI Plugin installed), surf on over to http://www.richnagel.net/#soundfonts on the Internet for more information, and to download my "¥Weeds¥ General MIDI SoundFont v3.0"! A lot of my other music compositions can be found there as well :) Legalities ---------- ©Copyright 2002-2011, Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel - Some rights reserved The GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 (GRSPak80.zip) may be freely distributed in it's unmodified form for any non-commercial use... feel free to mirror! Use these sound packs at your own risk. I will not be held responsible for blown speakers, blown engines, shattered windows, crashed hard drives, crashed cars, neighbor complaints, and the like . Void where prohibited; not available in all states; removing factory seal will void your warranty; removing information tag from pillow is a violation of federal law; does not include tax, tag, and title; your results may vary; results not typical; supplies are limited; I'm not a real doctor, but I portray one on TV; don't blame me, I didn't vote for him; etc... etc... . Version History --------------- v1.0 - First release. (July 24, 2002) v1.1 - Added Fuel.wav sound effect for new low fuel sound (September 5, 2002) effect feature in GeneRally v1.02. - Added suggested sound volume settings. v2.0 - Added additional sound pack, "Sound Pack Pro II". (September 11, 2002) v3.0 - Renamed "Sound Pack Pro" to "SoundPackPro I Mono". (September 16, 2002) - Renamed "Sound Pack Pro II" to "SoundPackPro II Mono". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro I Stereo". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro II Stereo". - Added installer. v3.1 - Removed GO32 v1.12. (September 17, 2002) - Removed L3DEC v2.72. - Added L3DEC v2.74. - Added Choice.com batch file utility. - Installer compatable with Windows XP (thanks for the testing, K3rmiT and Stub!). v4.0 - Removed L3DEC v2.74. (September 24, 2002) - Added RK Audio v1.07. - Modified installer. - Fixed all looping problems due to encoding WAV files to MP3 format. WAV files are now compressed to RKA format (using the command line parameters "-v3 -l3 -t-"), and decompressed back to the original WAV files during installation using RK Audio v1.07. - Adjusted looping of stereo Engine.wav sound effects. - Adjusted looping of stereo Skid.wav sound effect. - Renamed "SoundPackPro I Mono" to "SoundPackPro 1 Mono". - Renamed "SoundPackPro I Stereo" to "SoundPackPro 1 Stereo". - Renamed "SoundPackPro II Mono" to "SoundPackPro 2 Mono". - Renamed "SoundPackPro II Stereo" to "SoundPackPro 2 Stereo". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 3 Mono". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 3 Stereo". v5.0 - Changed "SoundPackPro 3 Mono" Yeah.wav sound effect to (December 1, 2002) Yeah.wav sound effect from "SoundPackPro 1 Mono". - Changed "SoundPackPro 3 Stereo" Yeah.wav sound effect to Yeah.wav sound effect from "SoundPackPro 1 Stereo". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 4 Mono". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 4 Stereo". v6.0 - Added SoX Sound Exchange v12.17.3. (December 8, 2002) - Modified installer. - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 1 MonoP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 1 StereoP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 2 MonoP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 2 StereoP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 3 MonoP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 3 StereoP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 4 MonoP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 4 StereoP". v7.0 - Modified installer. (May 30, 2003) - Changed "SoundPackPro 3 Mono" Yeah.wav sound effect to Yeah.wav sound effect from "SoundPackPro 2 Mono". - Changed "SoundPackPro 3 Stereo" Yeah.wav sound effect to Yeah.wav sound effect from "SoundPackPro 2 Stereo". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 5 Diesel". v8.0 - Added WavPack v4.60.1 for compressing and decompressing (March 3, 2011) the original WAV files ("WavPack.exe -hhx6 -t *.wav" and "WVUnpack -t *.wv"). All of the sound effects files are of lossless quality now! - Removed File Date v8.0 (not required with WavPack v4.60.1). - Removed RK Audio v1.07 (not required with WavPack v4.60.1). - Removed SoX Sound Exchange v12.17.3 (pitch-adjusted WAV files are now included with the sound pack, instead of adjusting the pitch of the WAV files during installation). - Modified installer. - Added additional higher-pitched engine sound packs as listed below (that were not originally included with many of my previously released seperate sound packs). - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro 6". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro Blank". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM Buggy". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM BuggyP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM F1". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM F1P". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM Heli". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM HeliP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM Sport". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM SportP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM Tank". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM TankP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM War". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MM WarP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro Music". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro MusicP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro PC Indy". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro PC IndyP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro PC Stunt". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro PC StuntP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro RC Elec". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro RC ElecP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro RC Gas". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro RC GasP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro Sailboat". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro SailboatP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro Warhead". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro WarheadP". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro ZipZaps". - Added additional sound pack, "SoundPackPro ZipZapsP". - Renamed "SoundPackPro 5 Diesel" to "SoundPackPro Diesel". - Renamed "SoundPackPro 6" to "SoundPackPro 5 Stereo". - Renamed all of the previously released seperate sound packs. - Updated contact info and web site URLs. - Probably done something else that I've forgotten about! 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