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actual sound recording you’ve made. You do this with the SoundLoader utility

in conjunction with a Digitrax PR3 programmer. Once you’ve customized the

project, you can save the sound project (.spj) le with a new name. This will let

you use your custom project over and over again.

We encourage you to share your customized sound projects with other modelers

by submitting them to the Sound Depot at www.digitrax.com/sound-depot/sub-

mit/. We are happy to post customer projects on the Sound Depot! Please limit

le sizes for upload to less than 20mb.

See www.digitrax.com/sound-depot/ for more information on how to create new

sound project les from your own recordings.

11.14 SoundFX Decoder Troubleshooting

If the sound does not start in the decoder

1. Make sure you have selected the locomotive address on a throttle. The

sound will not run unless the locomotive is addressed in the system.

2. Make sure F8 is not set to mute the sound.

3. Check your installation to make sure the decoder is installed

properly.

If the sound output sounds distorted

1. Check the speaker cone for magnetic debris that may have collected there.

Debris on the speaker will cause a loss of sound quality and must be re-

moved.

2. Be sure that the CV58 volume is not set at a level that is too high for the

speaker being used.

If the sound in your decoder shuts down after you stop it and you are not

using a Digitrax system for control. On some DCC systems decoders are not

addressed by DCC packets after the locomotive is set to 0 speed. In this case

after the CV11 timeout elapses (6 second default), sound will “shutdown.”. To

defeat this feature, set CV11=00 to remove the timeout and shutdown. To make

sounds, the decoder must have a command addressed to it at least once.

If you have trouble reading back CVs on the programming track, this may

be due to insufcient current draw. Of course you can always just re-program

the CV value into a CV to get the desired results, even if reading CVs does not

work. OPS mode is recommended for writing to (programming) all CVs except

CV01, CV17 & CV18 (2 digit and 4 digit addresses). If a second DCC decoder

is present that is not SoundFX compatible then correct read back of CV data

is not possible, since the NMRA CV read back was not designed for multiple

decoder read back.

I have loaded a new scheme but the CVs and Functions are not what

I expected. Load the sound project you programmed and then select the