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Hi John and Pete, Thank you both so much for your helpful and comprehensive answers to my Email. I too am a very satisfied customer of John at Youchoos and it was a discussion with him about the capabilities of the new Zimo MS decoders that lead to my questions. Apparently you can use two quick select features to give you access to 3 ‘alternative chuffs sets’. John defines his sounds on MS decoders as set1=‘normal’ set2=’light’ set3=’heavy’. The quick select keys have to be consecutive to each other, but can start anywhere. John currently uses F7 and F8 on MS decoders as his default option. Press F7 and you get ‘light’ chuffs. Press F8 and you get ‘heavy’ chuffs. John also assigns shunt mode and solo driving modes to F7, as they work together well reducing momentum etc. Alternatively you could have these quick select keys on F5+F6 for example, but then you’d need to move whatever is there at the moment elsewhere. Given your current standardisation, if you were to add MS decoders to your fleet, would you have the Quick Selects for Light and Heavy on F5 and F6 or F7 and F8? In addition, by my maths, you would still have 2 function keys in the easily accessible F1 to F9 range available. So, of all the additional sounds available in Johns library, which 2 do you think would be the most useful for realistic operation? Many thanks again for all your help and kind regards Andy

Hi John, Thank you for taking the time to post your progress on Leeds City, I have found your thread interesting and inspiring. Your use of sound equipped loco’s on Leeds City, and it’s predecessor, is the most convincing I have come across. I am interested to know your thoughts on how best to allocate particular sounds to Function keys for ease of operation. Have you developed a standardised system for the use of Function Keys across all of your sound decoders and, if so, would you mind sharing it with us? In addition, are you planning to use the new Zimo MS series decoders with their 2 Quick Select keys and, if so, how do you envisage amending your Function Key mapping to access this capability? Many thanks for your help and inspiration. Andy