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If you are talking about, specifically, when going out of bastion mode, that the sound is retriggered, then I am aware of this.
If you are only talking about 2ms too late at the end or start of the animation and sync up, that's the part I can't do much about.
but the other thing makes it twice as long.

I thought this had been fixed though.
Damn graphics programmers. they are so cool they deserve hi5's, sometimes straight in the face :D (joke - no violence before 5pm at the office, I swear)

Thanks for these extensive answers ! As a very old game, it's perfectly understandable to run into technical issues constantly I guess, like for the POS code. That's sad because you seem to have very good ideas. Sound is an important part of the gameplay in some genres, FPSs for instance, and I believe that it could hold the same tactical value in Eve. This is already the case somehow by the way, with wormholes (and soon gates) sounds.

About the bastion desync (I do know that having the sound play when entering bastion AND exiting bastion is intended), I wasn't talking about a 2ms delay or something insignificant like this
It was something that struck me on my golem yesterday, when exiting bastion you see the "vents" closing, the sound starts at the same time, and when they are fully closed, which is very visually distinct, the sound still continues for about one second or two. Nothing important, but if I understood correctly what you said, it is a delay important enough so that you could perhaps fix it :)

Edit : Actually I noticed two things : First the sound is not the same when entering and exiting bastion. Two, maybe, on the kronos for instance, I'm focusing on one element that stops moving, but other parts of the ship are still moving, thus explaining why the sound is still running.

Another detail that may be more noticed by the playerbase however, is that now the warp sound is linked to your ship, it is no longer "everywhere", so that if you zoom out, the sound starts to fade, and suddenly stops. The curve is a bit too steep, the sound could use more attenuation before going from weak to completely silent. (Actually... maybe the warp sound was already fading with the camera moving away, but now it is very distinct. Too distinct imo)

Also, and sadly I didn't have the time to try this on many ships, I noticed that the Kronos for instance has an engine sound. For instance, if you have the camera near your engines during a warp, it slightly change the tone of the warp since this engine sound is playing at the same time than the warp sound. Same for out of warp, if you start to move you'll hear the engines, no problem here. But then, I tried an orca and, surprise, there was no noticeable engine sound, at all :(

Everything mentionned was noticed on yesterday's version of sisi.

It's funny how I say the sounds are "small" and I get met with "oh they're fine" then someone posts the same thing and "they're right"... -_-

No no, not you :P

As for the sound effects... By slowing down the sound, I mean literally slowing it down. I don't have the tools (could probably find them) to do it or the actual sound effect file to work with, but you having it there.... Could you slow it down to like, half speed and stick on it on soundcloud? XD I wish I could find the sound effect that I hear in my head for it, but I think slowing down what's there now would probably be pretty close.

Think like, very heavy mechanical docking/clamping noises underwater... I'm trying to express it XD

Full Rubicon Audio Explanation Thing:

Character selection screen:
1. new theme music, by CCP RealX

2. Selection screen has been revamped graphically, so there are new hovering sounds and I put in some interaction booms whenever character is selected and when you enter the screen.

3. Aura says "connecting" whenever you choose your character.

4. "animating" of the characters possible for selection, has a brbrbrbrbrbr sound whenever it unfolds and some glitchy sounds.
I really like it myself.

The ISIS Ship tree:
1. There is a general theme of ambiance when entering.

2. each faction has it's own ambiance.
3. besides the usual Gallente, Minmatar, Caldari and Amarr ambiances, the special factions are made from combinations of these, just like the ships themselves are.

4. whenever a skill is trained and opening the tree, a sound will play to indicate what kind of progress this was. Basically in line with that the lines between the ships are highlighted.

5. when a ship is leveled up in mastery or reaches maximum mastery, audio indicators will also play.

6. when you exit the ship tree. there should be a flawless transition back into the game.

7. Hovering a ship will have the soundscape of that specific ship playing in the background.

The ships themselves:
1. all the new SOE ships, all side factions and so on, have added sounscapes for the ships.

2. Some of the ship soundcapes have been checked and changed for small clicks and errors. and their attenuation has been changed to only play much closer to the ship.

3. the MWD and AB sounds are made much clearer now when turned on. (The starting sound is a little too loud I can hear on TQ right now, so I will mix it again for one of the patches in the following days) We are still having some issues with the client figuring out which of them to play and which not to play , but this is something we are trying to fix.

4. The audio of the boosters themselves, have been changed to be louder when being behind the ship, but almost totally quiet when in front of it.

5. The bastion mode for marauders have been added. They will most likely be gone over a few times before they are final.

6. Dreadnaughts - Siege mode, also have a deploying undeploying sound.

7. triage mode, has a loop that has been revamped.

8. Rorqual - Industrial Core Deployment Compression Let's be super vulnurably to attacks mode - now also has a sound for deployment and undeployment.

9. Warping volume and sounds have been changed a bit to fit the new warp curve system, but I have already seen some indicators that the lowering of the volume, might not have worked - as some say it's louder now. which is not what is supposed to happen, as we are aiming for a smoother ride when warping.

Jump Gates:
1. Jump gates have new sounds in their surroundings.

2. Jump gates have sounds for the sparks and electrical fields around it when triggered by others, so it is again possible to gate camp and use audio as an indicator of when someone jumps or arrives at the gate you are at.
and if you don't like campers, you can just use it as a nice sound it makes when you are approaching and watch others jump.

Cynos:
1. we have hacked a solution to kind of fit the future vision of this, which means it will be a different sound for jumping yourself or seeing others jump.

2. Watching someone jump through a cyno from afar, should be experienced as a small electrical sound and then a sonic thud to indicate that something supernatural travel through space like just happened.

3. fixed the problem with sounds distorting when many players jumping at the same time.

Wormholes:
1. same as the cynos. just with wormhole sounds instead.

Stations:
1. The sound of undocking, which went missing in Odyssey is now back.

Dying:
1. the sound of dying is back in, fixed the problem with it being cut off during the death sequence.

New deployable structures:
1. Mobile Warp Disruption Bubble - should have a new sound, but this has been delayed until the point release.

2. all new structures have a new ambient sound around them.

3. all new activation modes of the deployables have an activation sound as well.

Suns and planets:
1. Suns now have a sound. One of them is missing, this will be in for the next patch.

Music:
New music in low-sec

Ghost sites:
new music to indicate the current level of threat.

And that's all I can remember straight off my head. if I missed something obvious, let me know and I'll add it.

Don't know actually how many there are, but it's been said before that the variety especially in Null was too little.
I can check how many there are.

The MWD sounds are broken.
the start and stop sounds for turning it on and off, are buggy.

This will be fixed. asap.
The wormholes will get a new attenuation, there was a problem with some merged files, so they shouldn't be as low as you experience them.

That's an unknown issue to me.
but we have a bug reported at the moment, about memory stacking on some systems. it could be that. but we haven't been able to reproduce the bug on the sound side of it here.

my sound is just terryble in this latest rubicon patch i get static sounds and combat sounds up close is just awfull every missile i fire produces a crackling sound aswell as the enemies firing on me with there lasers i dint have all those issues in odissey..the sound was very smooth there no matter what situation i got into ...hopefully theres a fix for this soon

you should read previous posts too. they mention exactly this ;)
the wormhole sound is fixed and will be going in for the next patch, hopefully friday. as I was just one hour late to catch the Thursday patching.

So you can turn your volumes down again after that. if they sound spiky though, then you have turned them way up.

if you are more than 6000m away from a WH, the sound will be different when others jump through.