Love the sound, but need headphones shortcut!
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Boris did a wonderful job on this piston beast, and I love listening to it as I take off… however after about 10 minutes I need to go int9 the menus and activate the headphone simulation… is there any way that you could make a click spot near the headphone jacks (similar to what A2A does?)
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This was in my original list of requests for Boris to include in his fantastic sound package, but we lost track of it with time, and then other features made adding this later more difficult. I asked him to revisit it a while ago before release, but it never happened. Hopefully I can convince him to do this for everyone before I release the first update after SU15 is finally released, assuming that is to not too far away. I will also be sure to pass along your high praise for the sound quality!
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This would be awesome to have!
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Sorry to hijack this thread but what is the headphone simulation? I use headphones too and wonder if I'm missing out on something!
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Unfortunately the MSFS in-build toggle-command for "headphone-simulation" on/off does not work since they implemented this feature. Even with SU15 the disfunctional toggle-shortcut was not fixed. You have to switch it on and off via the menu in MSFS. From what I`ve seen from P42 you also have to go into a menu (flow) to switch between states. I find this complicated too.
As I m a VR-only user, my solution on this (a more extended one):
I used the external software "VoiceAttack" and configured voice commands to control volumes. For example when spelling "sim volume down" the windows volume level of MSFS and also other programs like FSRealistic (which by the way is not affected by the MSFS headphone simulation) are set to 30%. The command "sim volume up" restores the volume level to 100 of both components. Did the same for different volume levels I wish and also for my music playing ( saying ..."music volume down" etc)
VoiceAttack is independent of MSFS and you can control many things with it. -
For an example of how it's done well (imo) look at the Lear35 from FSW - there it's on the tablet which is really not ideal but makes the a/c tolerable for long distance - really mutes the high freq whine from invertors? which is a vicious burrowing earworm :-)
My personal pref would be to a). click on the headphone jack socket and just add a visual marker that it's engaged and b). an LVAR to enable binding via h/w.
Currently on both turbine and piston, but esp. piston I have to use my windows audio panel to attenuate the sim during climb and then put it back again before landing. Really breaks the immersion for me and sound is such a HUGE factor in my enjoyment of any a/c.
