NEWS! - Sound Pack Released : Mango Studios Airbus A319 Sound Pack

 

 

Mango Studios have released a sound package for the Toliss Airbus A319-112. This sound pack covers both CFM International CFM-56-5 engines and the International Aero Engines IAE V2500-A5. You will need the ToLiss A319 to use this add-on package.

 

Features Include:

• X-Plane 12/11 compatibility included
• All authentic real-world sounds for all aircraft systems, including exterior and interior sounds. This covers the aircraft’s APU, PTU, fuel pumps, hydraulic pumps, flaps, slats, and packs.
• Real-world recorded sounds for mechanical switches, buttons, selector knobs, and rotary dials for the cockpit overhead, pedestal, and FCU panel.

Cockpit:

• High-quality sounds for blowers, packs, changes in electrical busses, and wipers, with pitch and volume changing depending on wiper speed.
• High-quality master warning, master caution, radar altitude callouts, EGPWS aural warnings, TCAS aural warnings, inner, middle, and outer marker aural warnings, mechanical horn inside and outside, and emergency evacuation horn for the cabin and cockpit.

Cabin

• Real-world recorded sounds for hydraulic pumps, fuel pumps, flaps, slats, PTU, and APU. Passenger effects are also included and can be toggled on and off using our Mango Studios Sounds Plug-in.

Miscellaneous Effects

• Ultra-realistic environmental effects for the entire aircraft, both inside and outside. These include rotate effect, gear roll, rattling effects, gear retraction/extension, gear, flap, and spoiler drag sounds. Soft, medium, and hard touchdown effects for the main gear, and touchdown sound effect for the nose gear. Tire sounds for the exterior of the aircraft on touchdown, as well as interior/exterior rain effects.

Engine Sounds

• Inside and outside sounds for the CFM International CFM-56-5 engines and International Aero Engines IAE V2500-A5.
• Real-world recorded interior/exterior start-up and shutdown sounds.
• Completely authentic engine sounds from idle to spool, inside and outside the aircraft.
• Custom exhaust sounds behind the engines and surround sounds when activating engine reversers.

 

 

 

It's only 9 bucks folks and a steal for a good sound pack, comes also with a manual and video tutorial to make installation super easy!

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Yes!...   Mango Studios A319 Sound Pack by Mango Studios is now Available from the X-Plane.Org Store here :

 

Mango Studios A319 Sound Pack

Price is:$10.99

On sale: $8.79 You Save:$2.20(20%)

 

Requirements

This is a Sound pack. The Toliss A319 XP12

It will not work on other A319s.

Current version 1.0 (September 11th 2024)

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NEWS! by Stephen Dutton

16th September 2024

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Sound packages can be excellent, but equally they can potentially be tiresome to live with. Two issues. One, when you move from engine type to another do you need to update the files to the correct sounds - or does it store both? Second, if you use an updater like SkunkCrafts does the updater see the ‘rogue’ files and overwrite or delete them? Interested in buying this but the developers don’t tend to explain the installation process or when the files may need to be reinstalled again. Any opportunity to include some detail around this in the review? 

On 9/16/2024 at 12:10 PM, Medellinexpat said:

Sound packages can be excellent, but equally they can potentially be tiresome to live with. Two issues. One, when you move from engine type to another do you need to update the files to the correct sounds - or does it store both? Second, if you use an updater like SkunkCrafts does the updater see the ‘rogue’ files and overwrite or delete them? Interested in buying this but the developers don’t tend to explain the installation process or when the files may need to be reinstalled again. Any opportunity to include some detail around this in the review? 

Hello,

This soundpack includes both engine types and doesn't require any swapping of files when switching between engine types. 

Skunkcraft updater does not recognise the soundpack files and so when the aircraft is updated it may delete or replace the soundpack files. Therefore if you ever run the skunkcraft updater for the A319 then you must also reinstall the soundpack to be safe. This is quite a simple process though. I have a video on installing any Mango Studios soundpack here: 

Hope this helps!

Thanks and the video does show that it’s not a complicated process and I’ve worked with sound packs before. Has there been any thought to having a Mango utility to rerun the updates (for all packs) on a regular basis. Something along the lines of having all of the sound packs stored in designated folder and then a utility to transfer them in windows to the correct aircraft files? Probably not difficult. In your video for example keeping the original zip file could be considered important if you need to rerun the process at a later date. The utility would save on future downloads.

 

I’ll likely buy the 319 pack now but making this process easier for people - beyond the first run - might be worthwhile. If you have several sound packs it’s easy to forget about one or more when an aircraft has been updated, a fairly common occurrence as XP12 evolves. Having a utility might even encourage brand loyalty when new packs are released.

 

19 hours ago, Medellinexpat said:

Thanks and the video does show that it’s not a complicated process and I’ve worked with sound packs before. Has there been any thought to having a Mango utility to rerun the updates (for all packs) on a regular basis. Something along the lines of having all of the sound packs stored in designated folder and then a utility to transfer them in windows to the correct aircraft files? Probably not difficult. In your video for example keeping the original zip file could be considered important if you need to rerun the process at a later date. The utility would save on future downloads.

 

I’ll likely buy the 319 pack now but making this process easier for people - beyond the first run - might be worthwhile. If you have several sound packs it’s easy to forget about one or more when an aircraft has been updated, a fairly common occurrence as XP12 evolves. Having a utility might even encourage brand loyalty when new packs are released.

 

I definitely think some sort of installer may be quite useful. However I believe setting something like this up would be too expensive for most developers, hence why most still use the basic drag and drop method. A good idea though

Although my coding days are long gone into the distant past I have the feeling that an exec to do this (you know the location of the input files and the destination) is probably embarrassingly easy for anyone who knows what they are doing. Likely much easier than the plug in that comes with the sound pack.