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We've got some custom sounds on our Jumper T16! In today's video using
open TX, I'm going to show you how to create your own startup sound clip,
upload the "Amber Sound Pack" which is a collection of more pleasant greetings
and warnings than the originals, and create your own custom sound clip using
a text-to-speech editor then assign it to a switch for your very own Jumper T16
custom sound clip on a switch. All of this in just a few simple steps and I've
captured everything we go through in an easy-to-follow checklist which you can
download in the video description below. If this sounds like fun, give it a like
below, smash that subscribe button, and let's go! Okay we're going to go through
the process of creating our custom startup screen sound and to do that the
first thing we need to do is download and install Audacity and we can do that
by going to Audacityteam.org. i've already downloaded and installed this
program. From here you want to grab any type of mp3 file that you may want to
use for your start up screen sound. In my case I've got a clip of the song Come
Fly With Me (a cover) so I'm just gonna grab that and drag it into Audacity. Now
this is in stereo-we want to make it in mono. So we need to go to tracks,
mix, mix stereo down to mono and it removed one of the tracks for me. We also
want to change the project rate to 32,000 down here here in
the lower left hand corner. Now we just need to edit this sound file that
we've imported into Audacity the way we want to and we do that just by clicking
on the soundtrack and then playing it to the point where
we want to start, which is right there approximately. So I'm gonna click the
left mouse button and drag and hold it over to the start and then I'm gonna
select edit and delete and now it'll start that track starts where I want it
to. I want to end it right here. Then I'm gonna drag this all the way to the
end, edit, delete and now we've just got this one short sound clip. We've got our
project rate set at 32k. We want to go to file and export and we want to save
it to a location where we can remember to grab it from. We want to make sure
and save it as a type WAV file, 16-bit. So we're gonna do file, export, wave 16-bit
PCM. You have different options here but we want to do it as 16-bit and I want to
save it to OpenTX/SoundsTMac. So I'm gonna put it there and I'm gonna click
Save. Here I'm gonna press Clear and then OK. We're gonna check to make sure it's
there now and here it is. Double click on that
and that's the first step. The next step is to get this on our SD card with the
proper file name format. So we'll take a look at that next. We need to make sure
that the file name is of the correct format to replace the welcome to OpenTX
sound file. Now I've got two windows open. What you see over here is the SD card
contents from the Jumper T16. We go to our Sounds folder, English, and you have
all these sounds files. The welcome to OpenTX sound file is not in here it's
actually in our Systems folder within Sounds/English. So we go to the Systems
folder and then we have all these additional sound files. Now the welcome
to OpenTX sound file name is called "hello." You notice it is a wav file.
We can double click on that and actually play it, okay.
So this is the one that we want to replace. Now I don't want to delete this
because I may want to use it again. I'm gonna rename this OLD_ hello.
Then what I want to do is take this Come Fly With Me clip that we just got done
editing in Audacity and rename it "hello." We can see also that this is a
wav file. I'm just going to drag and drop this over here and it's down here.
Let's double click on this.
Then all we have to do is stick the SD card back in our Jumper T16 and turn
it on, see how it works! Okay in order to access the Amber Sound Pack we go to
Open-TXU.org, his URL up here. We go to version 2.2 resources and then
under step 2 we see Amber Sound Pack for V 2.2 is here but we have a note that
says this is a .rar file type, use a rar unpack utilities such as WinRAR to
access it in Windows. Once it's downloaded, install, okay, done. Now we can
go ahead and download the Amber Sound Pack. Downloading over here. I'm going to
cut and paste this to a folder which I've already made called SoundsTMac, paste.
Then I want to open this using WinRAR. We want to extract it to a
certain folder- SoundsTMac. That's good. We're good. So now under SoundsTMac we
have Amber22, we can go ahead and delete this. Sounds, English. Then here are all of
our sounds files with the exception of the System sounds files which are under
a separate folder called System. So we click here and we see a bunch of
different system sounds files. But what we want to do, we want this complete
Sounds folder under Amber on our sdcard. So we're gonna copy and paste that to
our SD card, and you can do that either by connecting your transmitter with the
USB cable to your computer and accessing the SD card through your USB cable that
way or you can take out your micro SD card and stick it in a micro SD to USB
adapter which is what I'm going to do. So I'm gonna copy and paste this Sounds
folder onto my micro sd card. So these are the SD card
contents, the original ones and over here on the right is our Amber Sound Pack. I want
you to take a look at these two files RSSI_org
and RSSI_red for both the original files and the Amber Sound Pack
and I want you to listen to the difference between the two. So here's the
original signal low. "RFsignal low." Here's Amber "RSSI Low." Okay and then
here's critical original "RFsignal critical." And here's Amber "RSSI
critical." So the Amber sound files have a much more pleasant voice but it's up to
you whether or not you want to replace them. I'm gonna show you now that we've
got these Amber sounds on our computer, all we need to do is load them over
onto our SD card. To do that what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna rename this folder
OLD_sounds so I don't lose them. Then I'm going to take the Amber sounds file
and copy it and paste it over here. So now over on the SD card we have OLD_sounds
which is the original sounds file and we have Amber over here so now we
have amber over here. So all's we need to do is reinstall the SD card into the
Jumper T16. Now when we do that what I'm gonna do is I'm going to attach a sound
to one of the switches and show you how to do that.
Now in addition to the Amber sound pack you can use a text-to-speech editor to
record any type of sounds that you want to attach to, let's say a switch on the
T16. So, in my case I've got Betaflight Launch Control attached to one of my
switches on my T16 so I want to be warned when I
have that switch in the activated position for launch. So I went to this
Odd Cast text-to-speech editor and I'm using English and her name is Bridget.
I just typed in the text "Launch mode activated, ready to launch?" and we can go
ahead and see what that sounds like. "Launch mode activated, ready to launch?"
All's we need to do is use the audacity sound editor to record that, click there.
"Launch mode activated, ready to launch?" Hit stop. So then all you have to do is edit
the sound file like we did earlier. Go down here, set it to 32k, then you do file,
export, wav. Make sure it's set to 16-bit PCM. So you name the file name, I've already
done it here, I'm not gonna do it again, LnchAc fo launch activated. Click
Save then you click clear and then you click OK and it saves it to the folder
that you want it saved in. Then all we have to do is copy and paste that to our
SD card and insert the SD card back into the Jumper T16 and attach it to a
switch. We'll do that next. So the switch right here, Switch A, when it's in
the middle position is my Betaflight Launch Control activated. So that's what
we want to do the launch activated sound clip. The way we do that is we go
into our model setup, page over to
special functions-I've already got one set up here to play a track for zoom,
which is Amber saying zoom on switch D, which is my rate switch. When I. . . that's my
highest rates so that's why I have her saying zoom-so that I know that I'm in
my highest rates. So to set up the sound clip which we just made using our text
to voice . . . text-to-speech editor we go the to special functions page, scroll down to
special function 2 - and we just flip the switch and we
want it in the neutral position which is annotated by the - . If we put it in the
full up position, it's that arrow, and if it's full down,
it's that arrow. So we want to activate it when it's in . . . well I want to activate
it when it's in the middle position which is the position I've got it set up
for for the Betaflight Launch Control. We hit enter. We want to play the track
which is there. The track we want to play is the one that we just made-there
it is-LnchAC. We don't want to keep playing it but we could. But that's how
you set it up. It's that simple! So when I flip the switch to activate
launch mode we should hear that clip.
That's how you set up the voice clip or sound clip to one of your switches. Well
that was some fun! I hope you found it enjoyable and useful. Let me know how
you're going to use custom sounds on your Jumper T16 in the comment section
below. Make sure to subscribe. Thank you for your time and we'll see you next
video. Clear skies friend!