Hi everyone,
What I am going to try to do here is something that appears to be badly needed.
This is to offer help for people that are new or learning to use tactile. Also for others that have had tactile for a while but perhaps struggle to get good and enjoyable feedback.
Audio, can be a deep and rather complicated topic. On top of this are various factors to what people will feel, differing to others. Such factors as the tactile hardware they own, the amps, their installation as well as their rigs materials. These are even before we delve into settings for effects to use.
So the aim of this thread is to discuss with people and test effects (that will be shared) to generate feedback and determine with other users quite simply.
1) What feels or works good
2) What does not feel or work good
I do not want to use this thread to go into details of different hardware or installations as that really should have a place to discuss such matters on their own. What is being suggested, is to use this thread to "focus" on trying one effect at a time, discuss that effect, look at it in detail how all its settings can be used and find settings that work well with each effect for whatever hardware (You The User) owns.
I will be kicking this off starting with:
* Speed Effect
Effects Will Be Shared Here:
Links will be provided.
I will wait to see if someone wants to recommend a specific service to download from?
Users will be asked to list what hardware they own to help groups of people with the same hardware but also to help determine and narrow down what Hz can be well applied to certain effects. This will vary quite a lot based on the hardware different users own.
@mr-latte I just made my first steps into tactile. I'll be very interested in following this thread. I think it's a great idea to help people get started. I've been reading on the internet and came across some very informative posts by you (and others) at racedepartment. I really didn't realize the range of possibilities with tactile and e.g. the telemetry vs sound based feedback. It's a whole new world, which I didn't anticipate entering... but there you have it... I just entered it 😉
I'm currently only doing iRacing. Maybe 2-3 races a week (kids, work, life etc....). Most of my simracing hardware I get used. I try to get the most bang for the bucks I spend, without going all out on all the amazing stuff that's out there.
My Hardware
I bought some stuff, mainly to experiment with tactile, without spending big bucks on it. I've now attached 4 cheap transducers (15-80 hz, max 100W) to the corners of my playseat. These are powered by 2 cheap amps (120W) . So yeah, really cheap stuff and I realize the quality of the results I'll get is limited by the quality of the hardware I use.
I've also installed two 'rumble motors', one on the brake and one on the throttle pedal, connected to an Arduino motorshield. Simhub made that a breeze to do.
The effects
Now this is where it gets interesting. I've enabled some effects in Simhub using the default settings. Just to verify it works. Assigned them to different corners, set some volumes. But that's about it. I've read about 'layers' of effects, I see options with thresholds, gain etc. But that's all new territory to me. Right now, I really have no idea where to start to optimize an effect. That's not an issue btw, I'll enjoy just fiddling around with it to see what each thing does. But it would be great to get some directions or 'first steps to take' on how to go about getting a good effect for my (limited) setup methodically.
Let's say I want to feel the kerbs as detailed as possible. High kerbs, sausages, flat kerbs, big kerbs, small kerbs. Where to start?
As a source for sharing files: how about google docs? You could it public and just share the link or private and add users who are participating in this thread?