What's on the tracks up ahead? Artwork by Dan Sawatzky We are constantly working to introduce new products that enable and encourage model railroaders to have fun with layout sound, and to promote the widespread adoption of layout sound as a legitimate modeling medium within The Hobby! This is not just a small business. It is our stated goal, our roll as lifetime model railroaders, and it is our way of hopefully making a small contribution back to the world's greatest hobby... We are finally creating our scale sound 'dream player'. Its a single circuit board with CD quality playback capability (no moving parts except electrons:). This is a dedicated model railroad sound player with universal externally cued play back capability, and seamless looping. The player will work in both traditional DC, and DCC environments. We really can't say more about this product until it is closer to commercial release, but it does promise to be almost every model railroader's scale sound dream come true! We also have a design for a nifty FX circuit that drives light with audio. It is a simple single circuit (the Dream Player), and it can create any lighting effect imaginable by simply loading it with an appropriate audio program (which we will provide for you!). The Dream Lights system will provide up to eight individual lighting FX that can be bussed around your entire pike, and individually tapped off of the buss to apply the desired effect(s) in any scenes(s) you wish! We're tooling up to offer a line of R-T-R scale sound speaker systems and components. These will be dedicated tiny components that will be easy to install and conceal... and will be matched and referenced to our entire line of scale scene soundtracks! While our Scale Magic™ soundtracks sound good on almost any little sound system you might wish to use, our dedicated model railroad sound systems will be guaranteed to sound absolutely real... even after installation and concealment in your scenery. We will eventually add a line of craftsman soundtrack kits (on CD, and download able!). Similar to traditional craftsman kits, these kits will contain everything (all the 'parts, castings and materials':) you need to build a personalized scene in sound on your personal computer. Of course, these will be much less messy to work in. You will have folders full of sounds already prepared for scale applications that you can edit and customize for your layout scenes. Each kit will include every possible sound that you might need to build up scenes on your own PC or Mac. We will even include a URL for you to download free versions (for every platform) of the same software we use to create our scale soundtracks! I have been writing a book on scale sound, lighting, and special animation FX for several years now, "The Model Railroad Magic Book"... perhaps we'll finally get that published!   We are especially proud to be associated in some small way with these fine people & products! Absolutely invisible scale sound offered exclusively with Bragdon Enterprises! MLS offers Scale Magic™ Soundtracks for their craftsman kits! We are blessed and fortunate to have a lot to contribute to this amazing hobby we all share... Fantasonics Engineering 695 Crescent Avenue B Orcutt, CA 93455 (805) 937-4342 enginears@fantasonics.com [BACK] {Scale Magic™ CD Soundtracks} {Scale Magic™ Dream Player} {Scale Magic™ R-T-R Kits} {RailRoadies™ Scale Sound Services} {Creative FX Book} copyright © 2006, Fantasonics™ Engineering, all rights reserved.