 So I'm here with Eric from Tony's trains and QSI, so Eric what have you got to show us? Well today we're demonstrating the new QSI Titan decoder and we've been working on new software to load into the decoder that we call Q3 emulation technology and what we're trying to do is bring digital command control to the next generation of operating like the prototype. That sounds cool. Good. So what kind of things can you do? Well what we can do is we can have this locomotive being manipulated by any type of cab control in this instance an NCE hand controller and what we're trying to do is have this locomotive operate like the real thing. So you can what we're trying to do is scale the physics down of what what a railroad engine would do so it can take off slowly, quickly, depending upon the load that you have behind it. So for instance I have this locomotive programmed just to kind of creep along at a slow speed and I'm just going to move forward a little bit and you're going to hear the engine RPM hopefully idle up over the crowd noise here but you're going to see it gradually take off and then you're going to see it gradually slow down so let's just take a quick look at that. So right now I've gone up about two speed notches and then I'm just going to simply slow down and apply the brakes. Now part of the software features of what we're loading into this locomotive not only allow me to change the dynamics of the train but we can also change all of the sound variables that go into this locomotive. So for instance you can control the overall you control all of your various controls using these sliders so it's just simply a simple mouse click and you can just move things back and forth. This is the screen that controls your overall sound so right now I'm just turning the overall volume of the locomotive down and then I'll just reset it back up to its max. On this particular page you also get your automatic timeouts. I can also manipulate Doppler effects for my horn on a different type of bell actuator sound etc etc. This next screen controls the volumes for all of the locomotive sounds and we have over 30 different sounds on this decoder using this software. So again slider control this particular locomotive is using has two prime movers so I can make one prime mover just a little bit quieter okay so I'm just I can change the volume of the second prime mover or the first prime mover and again I can scroll down I can control air dryer volumes alternate horn the list goes on we have 30 different over 30 different sounds very nice very nice so as an engineer background right you told us earlier that you have an engineer background so then that is something that the user can do to actually make it feel like they're running a real locomotive more than a model. Yes what we're trying to do is make it easier for the user to match up the movement of the locomotive to the sounds of the locomotive so it really becomes almost like the real thing very nice so just to kind of give you an example of the ability to change things Joe so on this particular page because this is a stereo decoder it's got two speakers located one in the front one in the rear I can change the balance of the horn so it comes out in the front of the locomotive I can also add more bell to the front of the locomotive and then on my prime movers I'm going to take my front engine and move it to the front and I'm going to take my rear engine and locate it more towards the rear I can also do that for all 30 sounds amazing let's go to when let's say for example I idle up to speed step 30 I can have the locomotive be a little bit louder underneath the mid rpm volume I can then when I'm at full maximum rpm I'm going to have maximum volume I can then go in and do the same thing for the exhaust so on my idle exhaust if the locomotive is just standing there or coasting I can turn that idle way down for if the locomotive is experiencing a medium amount of force on it I can have that exhaust turned up and again on max rpm we also have labored sounds so as there's more let's say you're you're carrying a heavy train just from idle turning it down but then let's say when the locomotive first starts to pull on that train I'm going to have it all the way up and then maybe in a coasting but at a high speed I can turn that exhaust down so really the combinations are infinite for the user to change to his own taste and desire yeah I'm sitting there thinking I've found a new hobby well I found that the more I play with it the more I learn and the more I learn the more I play with it yeah going away from the sounds for a minute we make it really easy to change both the acceleration and deceleration rates now what I use what I usually do is I save cv3 and 4 from when I'm actually operating the locomotive and I set cv23 and 24 before I operate meaning cv23 and 24 will act as acceleration rates for when the locomotive is light and then using my cab held momentum button I can change the acceleration deceleration rates of 3 and 4 for when I'm out on the main so as the tonnage of my train changes up and down I can use though this button automatically and change in route it's really really uh functionally easy to use we also offer speed tables you can create your own consisting buttons for when you run locomotives and calm and consist and then really an outstanding feature that we do is is you can start assigning all different functions to every part of your handheld and I'm just going to pull down a small drop down so for instance function one I can have it control all of these items from doppler dynamic flange brakes front marker grade crossing any number of combinations and that's strictly forward and reverse we haven't even gotten into neutral wow so again it's it's a powerful program and it really lets the user design his locomotive to how he wants to set it up very nice I don't know how many people have talked to their rail fans and they say but I can't get the model to sound like the real thing like I remember I think that this particular sound file that we have in this locomotive the GE 16 FDL is superb my own experience running the dash eight which use this locomotive or this locomotive engine I think is a dead ringer excellent excellent well thank you very much Eric Joel a pleasure train master's tv coming this fall only from model railroad hobbyist magazine