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This is a good free one (IBM watson) with a ton of voices that sound pretty real to me. http://https:\\text-to-speech-demo.ng.bluemix.net Example of using it in one of my missions: To create realistic radio sound, get Audacity and follow this: https://opengameart.org/forumtopic/audacity-radio-voice-effect You can also mix in radio alert tones to mix in before and after the speech. I have a sort of blank template set up with audacity to do this stuff.

The Syria map is incredibly good in VR. Performance is top notch. The variation of terrain, buildings, locations and water is stunning. Feels like an entirely new experience and I've already flown around for hours today just looking at things. Thank you Ugra Media! Outstanding work!

Just awesome. Totally worth the wait and practice for this ahead of time. Nice work ED!

Weird problem. With any SC launch mission with F18 or F14, I start over the ocean instead of on the ship. Using PC version. Tried repair/clean.. no mods. Anyone else see this? EDIT: Nevermind. I updated DCS, but didn't install the SC module. Duh! Too excited to get into this I guess. Looks amazing so far!

Drakoz - That's an awesome controller! You're right. It's a lot like my keyboard without the keys getting in the way. I ended up building a DCS-BIOS VR box (also emulates a joystick at the same time) https://github.com/msdlogic/VR_Toggle_Box/ I've been primarily using that. I wanted a lot of toggle switches vs rotaries, but I'm always looking for good options for midi controllers. A bi-directional Midi to DCS-BIOS piece of software would be very interesting. DCS-BIOS is a very simple protocol. I thought about doing a free-pie plugin for it.

The NanoKontrol looks like a great input controller for DCS. This project might help you get it working: https://artemis.forumchitchat.com/post/using-usb-midi-input-device-nanokontrol2-for-engineering-console-6487613?trail=45

For those who can't redirect audio, this might help or maybe shed light on a bug. I found by accident that if I select the -next- audio device after the one I want to redirect to, I can get it to work perfectly. I have 8 audio output options, so maybe it's a problem with how vaicom indexes those. Just a guess. Gotta say.. Vaicom Pro is -awesome-. I finally got it yesterday and took up the tomcat in VR with AIRIO. I'll never go back to menus. It's really better than I could have imagined.

You might look at Vjoy (virtual joystick) and FreePie to do scripted remapping. I use it to set up mode switches and even interface with a MIDI controller. Target didn't jive with me. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=259519

Curious if this could be a solution: Can we can transfer prior ED Heli purchases to Steam, buy the discounted bundle and then move the licenses back to ED? Would appreciate it if you would consider this or some other solution to this issue.

I'm baffled too. I had bought the Mi-8 a few months ago. ED support says there is nothing they can do for me. It's not a huge deal, but it bothers me that if I had bought through steam that I'd get a better discount. Doesn't make sense.

Close to around $45. Probably could do better if I searched more for parts. Would love to see someone else build it. Maybe talk about some ideas for a version 2 and build up some DCS-BIOS scripts. I'm up for it. Wanted to start with something and make some improvements to it.

Hello, I'd like to share a project I'm working on that is fully detailed on Github. Compact input controller with 19 switches and 4 rotary encoders. Functions as a joystick in DCS, so it's easy to map controls. Supports DCS-BIOS for more advanced control mapping. Overall, it provides up to 120 control inputs via a 3-way mode switch. I find it to be a great addition in VR. After developing some muscle memory, it feels relatively natural to locate controls for startup, navigation and weapons. The project includes 3D models, schematics and arduino source code. If you'd like to help with the development of this, such as adding DCS-BIOS scripted controls or some other idea for VR input, I'd love to hear from you.

The upgrade to 32GB itself didn't make much difference for me, but in the process, I learned about turning on XMP profiles in BIOS to speed up RAM. THAT made a noticeable improvement in smoothness in VR. May depend on your MB, but XMP is a BIOS feature for AMD and Intel. I've spent way too much time optimizing for DCS and now I'm studying more about memory overclocking. No end to this.

Greetings - I figured out a good way to use any MIDI controller as an input to DCS including MIDI rotary encoders, which wasn't all that easy to do. Using open source VJoy and FreePIE, I've found this setup to work really well. A MIDI keyboard is probably not an ideal control panel, but I've have one on my desk for years next to the throttle. I use it in VR to control things like cockpit lighting, NV googles, flaps, etc. It's pretty easy to add stuff to it. FreePIE uses python scripting to map controllers like MIDI, mouse, keyboard, joysticks and even trackIR and many other things together. It supports VJoy, which provides a virtual joystick that appears in DCS. For example, you can set up FreePIE to push a button on the virtual joystick if you press a button on the MIDI controller. You can then map it in DCS easily. I also replaced my keyboard emulator (JoyToKey) with it, so I have everything pulled together into one script file. For example, I set up the dial on the left of the throttle to act as a rotary switch to toggle through 8 different views based on the position of the dial. I attached the script that I use which has some examples. Unless you have the same MIDI keyboard (PMIDIKPD50) and the TM16000M, you'll need to heavily modify the script. However, hopefully the examples are helpful. The timing configuration in the script for the rotary encoders is my main contribution. I could not find any other solutions for that, so this is what I came up with. Would like to know if anyone is doing something similar or if there are good midi controllers worth looking at. - dcs_pie.zip