RailRoadies Scale Sound Design & Services!

"The Back Story"

Bob Scheffler (PRICOM Design), and Fantasonics™ Engineering have been a match made in Heaven from the outset back in 2005. Before that I had been using CD players for layout sound, they sounded good but they were 'touchy' when barely bumped, like when you pushed the 'play' button:)! I'd long dreamed of a 'solid state' player, one with no moving parts other than electrons, and one that could be cue'd remotely and could interface with other layout systems. Bob Scheffler, also a model railroader, wanted one of those too, and had already invented it! Bob built the first 10 prototypes and the first 5 were in my hands in just two weeks! They exceeded all my dreams... .

A few years later I asked Bob if if he would build a simple filter circuit that would strip a 20Khz tone off the top of two audio channels so I could synchronize light with the audio below. He built it, I'm sure it works a treat... but I never got a chance to test it! Before I could, Bob said, 'there might be a better way to synchronize linear control... using MIDI control data'. Bob 'firmwired' the PRO player control outputs from simple on/off to smooth linear control... and did it without changing the Dream Player PRO circuitry in any way!

The PRICOM Design Dream Player 'PRO MIDI' feature was enabled!

With PRICOM's amazing Dream Player PRO-MIDI features we can scratch build smooth linear Scale Magic™ lighting FX, and Scale Magic™ animation control, in perfect synchronization with a Scale Magic™ soundtrack of any length...

This honestly rivals themepark show control!

You've got to be careful what you wish out loud for around Bob, he has a habit of making dreams come true.

Introducing...

"R-T-R" because they're shipped ready to run right out of the box...

"Craftsman Kits" because YOU install it in your layout's scene!

To learn about the creative Nuts & Bolts of this innovation, download and read any of the FX Addenda to The Scale Magic™ Sound Owner's Manual, below.
AND...

Even if you don't want to hire the RailRoadies... you you might want to go ahead and download all six of the FX Addenda (.PDF's)
They're full of illustrations and ideas, and together they're a complete tutorial on creative layout lighting!
And they're free:).

FX Addendum No.1 describes the basics of traditional theatrical lighting and just how easily they can be applied in scale.
Addendum No. 1 can improve your layout lighting in any event, with or without a Kit :). Addenda 2-6 each describe one of the five FX families we currently offer in greater detail, but Addendum No. 1 should always be read first.

FX Addendum No. 2: describes structure Interior lighting techniques and teaches how to get the most enchanting results with Scale Magic™ FX in your structures and buildings. There are several

FX options from which you might choose. It is a terrific tutorial on the topic in it's own right.

FX Addendum No. 3: The Visible Lanterns Addendum describes how to install and apply our visible lantern models in any scene and scale. Adding a visible lantern (or two or more :) is easy and will add inhabitant life, character, and personality to most any scene.

FX Addendum No. 4: Visible Fires are described in this Addendum. A transparent flame(s) is projected up onto a clear screen, and changes size, shape, color, and brightness with FX control in sync with the sound of the fire. You might apply a visible fire as a campfire, or as the fire in a sawdust burner, or in a steam boiler, or in a stove or fireplace, or anywhere the flames will be directly viewed.

FX Addendum No. 5: Scale Magic™ Welding & grinding is lightyears beyond anything you've ever seen... or heard! For one thing, the sound is Scale Magic™ sound, and it's perfectly synchronized with the FX along a scene's time line of any length. It's not constant, it's not repetitive, it's not predictable, it's not mono, and it's not data compressed...

And it sounds exactly like it looks because it's designed to! It sounds real because it's in a Scale Magic™ Image! We can even add scale distance!

FX Addendum No. 6: Fireflies (Lightening Bugs) are described in this Addendum. They're not just random blinking, each firefly spark is scratch built and placed along the soundtrack's timeframe.
Fireflies are easy to apply and will add spell binding enchantment to any outdoor scene.
It's up to you! You might want a lighted building interior, a single visible lantern outside that building, and two fireflies in the background. Or four fireflies. Or... ?

It Just Works...

Within the Dream Player PRO itself you can have ANY combination of any four FX from the five families in the FX Addenda.
Or you might want four different interior lighting FX in four separate buildings. Or you might wish to have welding or grinding in a shop or roundhouse, a pot belly stove fire burning away in the office, and a visible lantern hanging outside. Or you might wish to allocate all four FX outputs to build an amazing visible fire congflagation... it's entirely up to you.

Want a lighting effect or animation control not described in the addenda? With PRICOM Design's PNET Protocol, DC Controller, and HEX Driver accessories, we can synchronize up to thirty-two (32!) channels of linear MIDI control outputs.

Pretty much anything you can imagine...

[BACK]

[Scale Magic™ Soundtracks] [Scale Magic™ Dream Player] [PRICOM Design products]

[RailRoadies™ Scale Sound Design] [Creative FX Book]

[BACK]