So... I should turn my sound back on?

Seriously though, the new turret sounds are amazing.

also, CCP whitenoisetrash was saying he was going to provide a clip of the changed turret sounds on youtube or something with this dev blog...what happened to that?

Sophisticated metrics say it's likely you already had your sound turned on in the first place.

Sophisticated metrics say it's likely you already had your sound turned on in the first place.

[m]ake the EVE soundscape more like naval combat

with 20 base tracks that have around 500 permutations to them

We felt that the planets should really be heard when warping up to them and so made the planet sounds that can be experienced in Planetary Interaction mode audible just by warping up to them.

all the cool kids had a slickly custom-skinned Winamp installed to play the latest Nickelback songs

As a veteran who played with sound, it saddens me a bit to hear the music will go to the cloud. "...But Still We Go On" is the first thing I always heard when I log into eve. That welcoming music was part of the routine that kept me grounded. I understand the reasoning, and Eve is all about reasoning and cold numbers. As I listen to the music now though (on sound cloud), I am reminded that all things change, and Eve should be no exception.

The blog talks about sounds, but I can't hear them in words :(

can you give us a little onomatopoeia action going on

you could always...download the song and queue up your EVE playlist on your media player whenever you start the game, first song being that one?



LOL, shield sound is already blaring in your ears every 3 seconds with an active shield tank, might as well have the cap sound effect going as well

Just me or is:
"Soft soundscape when entering the ingame map"
and
"Map mode soundscape"
the same thing?

also, CCP whitenoisetrash was saying he was going to provide a clip of the changed turret sounds on youtube or something with this dev blog...what happened to that?

Sounds good, no pun intended.

The only thing which comes to mind is for ships which are on the very edge of cap stability, potentially ticking back and forth over that 30% every time the shield booster fires. That could get a mite annoying.

Sounds good, no pun intended.

The only thing which comes to mind is for ships which are on the very edge of cap stability, potentially ticking back and forth over that 30% every time the shield booster fires. That could get a mite annoying.

I don't think the Capacitor warning should come as early as 30%. I'm sure a lot of players rely on peak recharge, which AFAIK happens at around 35% cap.

So, seriously... Consider moving the threshold to 20%. Or make it customizable, like the warnings for Shield HP, Armour HP and Hull HP.

Those new tracks will change and become even darker and more moody in systems that have seen a number of players ships destroyed in the last 24 hours.

Now a short sound will play after your skill training completed notification

ItGÇÿs thought of kind of like when you are completely silent in the darkest night and you hear the blood rushing through your veins and noises from your brain signals. Perhaps you donGÇÿt. We just hear voices that whisper terrible things.

Now, when the capacitor reaches 30% you will hear a UI warning sound, allowing you to take the necessary precautions before itGÇÿs too late.

The music from the jukebox won't go away. All of it is still being used in the improved system. No tracks were harmed during the making of this expansion.

Oh, can we please please please have a special creepy atmo flavour sound that is played when a cloaked ship is slowboating towards one's ship?
More precisely: that will be played _most times_ when a cloaky is approaching and sometimes for no reason at all.

*chr chr*

Oh, can we please please please have a special creepy atmo flavour sound that is played when a cloaked ship is slowboating towards one's ship?
More precisely: that will be played _most times_ when a cloaky is approaching and sometimes for no reason at all.

*chr chr*

You can set the threshold to be wherever you want actually, just like with the other warnings.

Shame the soundcloud uploads dont have the download option turned on.

This all sounds great, except for... planets making sounds? I'd expect your ship to make a sound even when stationary - it's still a machine with life support systems and all that running even when not moving. But planets just don't make sounds, that's silly.

When astronauts today go into orbit, one of the things they remark on is how peaceful and quiet Earth seems from all the way up there. Planets in EVE shouldn't make any sound.

Having said all of that, there is no sound in space at all, so true realism dictates the sounds be removed altogether!

Any chance of getting a "MU-MU-MULTIKILL" sound for bombing runs?

We went and created X variations, so that when you do that 70 jump route, there are mild differences in the sound and flavor of each jump, making those hauler runs a little more bearable.

Entering siege mode plays "QUAD DAMAGE!" to everyone on grid?

HEADSHOT when an enemy ship dies in a single volley

OVERKILL when you kill something in a single volley that does at least a hundred times the amount of HP the ship has.

Being a self-important audio engineer myself, is there anyyyyy chance CCP can enable an HQ audio option? I simply cannot stand the 128kbps mp3 compression applied to the music, as I usually play with head phones on.

I realize this would eat up some computer processor/ram stuff, but as with graphics, it'd be nice to have the option.

Also, remix competition on a song. My vote is for Below The Asteroid.

I hope the dynamic 500/20/whatever track-sequence mixing thing being null-sec only is a test, and that if it works out allright, something similar will be implemented for low-sec, high-sec, wormholes and during combat missions.

so i heard we were gunna get a vid or something compareing old to new weapon sounds, any chance of getting that soon?

apart from that excellent blog.

You also added some annoyingly repetitive sounds...

Undock sound
Dock sound
Initial NPC aggression sound
End of NPC aggression sound
"New" Stargate sounds still just sound like broken TS or Vent noises.


Just to name a few...and these all stack on top of each other, if i undock while still flagged with NPC aggression i then get both new sounds...

Also, would it be possible to give us an option to turn turret sounds UP...currently in order to hear my turret sounds i have to have the environment sounds to a point where the VERY repetitive NPC rat sounds get extremely annoying. Also, with the volume at the level needed to hear my turrets shooting, while avoiding the even more annoying and very repetitive active module noises, it would be nice to have a "station" volume option, so we don't have to keep turning our volume up and down constantly.

We had a video but it was from a broken build where you couldn't really see what was going on, we decided to release the dev blog rather than wait for a new video. We'll try to get something out to you, -if that fails, you should hear it on patch day!

Inb4 "eve has sound?"

As a veteran who played with sound, it saddens me a bit to hear the music will go to the cloud. "...But Still We Go On" is the first thing I always heard when I log into eve. That welcoming music was part of the routine that kept me grounded. I understand the reasoning, and Eve is all about reasoning and cold numbers. As I listen to the music now though (on sound cloud), I am reminded that all things change, and Eve should be no exception.

My sincere hope is that the music team can come up with tracks of the quality that these old legacy tracks had. Bash the old music all you want. It has been there for a long time, and I've always loved listening to it. I'm glad that the option to listen to it in the cloud is there just in case the music team cocks it up. Actually, I think it would be great if we could hear more samples as they are developed from the music team. You could put those on sound cloud too.

Just out of curiosity.. Does anyone know the lore behind eve sound?

Since obviously sound doesn't travel through empty space.. Is it virtually generated in the pod? I'm not much into the whole fluff thing but i'm curious.

Weird, my client will always plays "Miner Stories" first.

All the old music still plays in hi-sec, and different songs for different situations/locations. Try to hear them all.

What like this

Music is compressed by a modified .ogg encoder provided by our sound engine and I use much less than 128kbps

Changing the compression would mean bigger client download, it should cost the same processor time to decode and no RAM since all the music is streamed from the harddrive.

i can haz fully customizable warnings ? for basically anthing ?

IB4 nullbears demand sound for when non-blue enters local.

Hey CCP, can you PLEASE remake the sound when you use a jump bridge/ titan bridge/cyno with too many people??

My ears just got raped every single time that we take a titan bridge with the entire fleet.
A single sound more like a "kaboom" should be interesting instead of that damn sound that **** your ears.


Thanks very much

Shame the soundcloud uploads dont have the download option turned on.

When your ship is idle, zoom all the way on it. You will hear tympanies slowly beating.

For a while figured it was only Amarr ships but I can hear it on Gallente ships also.

Try to hear them all.

If your adding noise for planets how about some more static hiss when you park up by a sun.

-if that fails, you should hear it on patch day!

~
Well i do understand why they are doing but getting rid of the whole being able to play your own mp3s through it which works perfectly fine seems really silly to remove. But reading the other threads calms a few of my fears by them saying that they arnt removing any of the old music which is good.

we will be removing the current jukebox

So according to the latest Dev Blog " http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=73569 " they are apparently getting rid of the Jukebox UI option? Whats the point? Why get rid of something that works perfectly fine? It makes no sense unless im missing something here?

Thoughts?

So according to the latest Dev Blog " http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=73569 " they are apparently getting rid of the Jukebox UI option? Whats the point? Why get rid of something that works perfectly fine? It makes no sense unless im missing something here?

Thoughts?

IB4 nullbears demand sound for when non-blue enters local.

Very cool - Eve needs more warning sounds.

We need warnings for when you get pointed, webbed, neuted, disrupted, MWDs shutting down, etc etc.

So... I should turn my sound back on?

Seriously though, the new turret sounds are amazing.

Oh, can we please please please have a special creepy atmo flavour sound that is played when a cloaked ship is slowboating towards one's ship?
More precisely: that will be played _most times_ when a cloaky is approaching and sometimes for no reason at all.

*chr chr*

Removing the jukebox and playing music based on where you are

You can set the threshold to be wherever you want actually, just like with the other warnings.

I'm sure everyone has wondered about the group that produces all the wonderful sounds in EVE Online that everyone loves so much. Well now you'll know about just how they rock your auditory senses, thanks to this wonderful new Dev Blog from CCP TorfiFrans.

Please use this thread for all your feedback!

One of the things that came out of the roundtable sound had at the last EVE Fanfest in Reykjavik, was that stargate sounds become quite monotonous when you do a lot of travel.

The best part about it is the procedural generated sfx.

Guys, this has the potential to indeed be awesome !


Nobody remembers syndicate (bullfrog, '93) anymore ?
Fluid changes in music, dependent on situation !

It was perfect !

Um, with all due respect...

Please give us the option of turning the B/G music off?

Sorry guys, but it is --IE, the last Duality build I played-- sometimes just jarring, and that's annoying as Hell. Options, please, options!

That, and please don't change the sound of Dual 180mm Autocannon IIs. Best-sounding guns in the game!

I have some comments but please note that these are strictly from me as a player!

I am really excited about these changes - For one thing, ship environment sounds make a ton of sense and it's something I've wanted to have for a while. Just add actual crews that modify the ships stats and we're gold :P

I understand the soundcloud initiative; but does it have any impact on people with a limited data plan ?

In the same feeling; can this impact on players with limited bandwidth who perhaps play eve and listen to other online streaming services like EVE-Radio ?

The jukebox vs media player comment is relevant - but don't forget that adding a jukebox and having the ability to play your own MP3s in the thing are not date related at all. If this is not going to be an option moving forwards, will we be able to export our current playlists ?

Sound made when finishing a mission - I hope it's a Ding! :+P

Otherwise, I really can't wait to hear (pun lol) from you guys

I'm using the jukebox occasionally. And this is coming a bit early, since I'm still waiting for that 50 MBit connection I ordered and that I'll probably get in q1 2013.

Currently I'm still running on 384 KBit/s , so streaming whatever ist not an option.

How could anyone forget Syndicate!?

LucasArts X-Wing, and the iMuse system, combined slices of predefined MIDI segments on the fly, to ramp the intensity up and down, depending on the situation. Beautifully smooth transitions and variety. I wish the games / sound card industry had continued on this path. Unfortunately the quality of what you heard depended on the quality of your sound card's synth. Going all digital gives everyone the same audio experience; good and bad: sigh.

My music is off as o play with 2 -3 chrs and have 3 music tracks runing at the same time is a plane and use TS3 as well macks that no fun



and most of the 0.0 corp say you MOST be on TS3 to get help and info

so what is the pint?????

no, no , NO, NOOOO

I spend ages finding decent EVE-esk music for that absolutely brilliant Jukebox. Now that I finally spread that music (1.4 GIGs) to my fellow clan m8's that really enjoy it, you guys remove it???? No other game came even close with this functionality. I don't want to fire up winamp everytime I play EVE. Please please please...don't do this us.

The jukebox worked like a dream for me, a great shuffle and all custom music felt like it belong in the game. As much as I like the music in the game, it's not enough when you play the game for long periods of time.

For me this is truely a dark day in my personal EVE history, because I really loved its Jukebox...allot.

The dev blog sounds really promising and I completely agree with the approach

However, I will probably not benefit from any changes unless some other improvements are made because frankly, I have turned music off. The reasons:

1) music interferes with voice comms during pvp
2) when running two clients, as I usually do, each client plays its own music which results in an intolerable sound mash

This would be easy to fix:

1) Make a hotkey to mute and unmute music. I don't want to go to the ESC menu every time I need to turn music on or off, but if I could mute/unmute it with a simple keystroke, I would enable music during quiet periods like pve and mute it when there is need to talk on TS

2) Make sure that only one instance of the client (the one started first) plays music. Shouldn't be too hard. (I guess I could install a separate client and disable music there, but I'm not willing to maintain two clients just for this. I don't even have enough disk space left on my SSD.)

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE scrap and replace the login noise, it is a bitter and harsh high-pitched screech that I'm sure nobody enjoys.

What I'd love to have access to are the more exciting bits of music that play when you enter a mission. For ages I've been wondering how I could get my hands on those. By far some of my favorite music selections in the game with the driving industrial sound.


Anyways. Cheers!

So, if you open up your EVE folder, and go res > audio > jukebox you'll find all the mp3s used in the game. Just copy them out and put them into your favorite media player.

I often use the Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12 shortcut to disable sounds; but it would be nice if there was a modifier that could toggle the music but leave game sounds.

Just out of interest, are there any clips on YouTube demonstrating the new turret sounds ?

You can set it off simply by putting the music volume to 0. The setting gets persisted to your next sessions, so in essence that's how you turn it off...

Sound when you finish a skill or a mission

What I'd love to have access to are the more exciting bits of music that play when you enter a mission. For ages I've been wondering how I could get my hands on those. By far some of my favorite music selections in the game with the driving industrial sound.

Would there be a way to have EVE only play music if it's the frontmost window, and to play environmental effects at 25% volume if it's not? That way, if you had sound enabled, you'd only hear one soundtrack, but you could still make out the shield alarm on your AFK Mackinaw (frex ;-) ) in a background window.

That's a good idea and worth looking into, if we can do it technically!

Now a short sound will play after your skill training completed notification

Welcome to the game, Torfi
But really i find "Skill training completed" more useful than :sound:

Welcome to the game, Torfi
But really i find "Skill training completed" more useful than :sound:

What with the login musics getting archived, what are the odds of getting the login music for Quantum Rise in there too, or is there already under a different name?

The new Retribution theme is awesome. I keep mashing the play button: http://soundcloud.com/ccpgames/eve-online-retribution-2012