🔊┃audio

[swift reef]

It's possible to get the amount of delay of a audio in ms? I know that Unity build in audio system have a lot of delay in mobile devices, and I'm doing a game that should have the gameplay sync with audio, I was thinking of "applying" the same delay on the gameplay.

[uncut harbor]

hello, just rushing with jam anybody can see whats wrong and why is music not playing? the music iin other scenes works fine

[winged star]

Make sure there’s an audio listener in your scene

it would probably be attached to the camera

[uncut harbor]

thanks!

worked

[winged star]

glad that worked! it was just a guess since you were in a rush

[ocean spade]

any suggestions on a software to make digital sounds? like a simple win sound that goes ping. a software that just lets you make extremely simple sounds

[idle ginkgo]

any one know a good place to get free sound effects?

[dreamy wyvern]

Is it possible to make certain sounds mute for certain people in an online game?

[quasi hound]

Why wouldn't it be?

[dreamy wyvern]

Better question is, how can I do this?

[quasi hound]

Depending on your client/server architecture either the client checks for the relevant condition before playing the sound, or the server checks for that condition before sending the client info about the sound source

or controls the audiosource volume or mixer volume, depending how you want it

[dreamy wyvern]

Cool, I'll do a bit of research and look into that

[quasi hound]

There might be more examples out there for fog of war systems which I think are fundamentally similar, but instead of controlling renderers you'd be controlling audio
But ultimately the specifics depends on how your multiplayer is set up

[dreamy wyvern]

Alright, thanks for the help

[neat portal]

Rarely in multiplayer you are telling clients to sync specific sound and instead sync an action which has sound associated to it. Hard to say what your specific case is what is right way to do it

Like are we ”not playing” sound or do we want to mute a sound which is playing

[tough ice]

Hello folks, is this the place I can get some assistance regarding Vivox?

[quasi hound]

Yes
Still seems pretty new and obscure at the time of writing though

[tough ice]

What means should be taken to prevent someone sniffing the token used by other clients to connect to vivox and using this token to mute/distort vivox communication for others?

Like generating a private key known only to the client and a public key at the server.. is there an example implementation?

[austere narwhal]

Using AudioSource.clip = Microphone.Start(null, false, 10, maxFreq);
The result is very quiet when listened back.
Is there a way to increase the recording volume?
Or even Normalise the recording?

[spice elk]

If there are 2 audio listeners in the scene, it will crash the game?

[proper salmon]

no, just jitter between the two

[spice elk]

thank you.
I already built aab and upload it to google play
I just want to know that it cause any crash or not.

it won't cause any crash on user's android phone?

[proper salmon]

i haven't tested it specifically on an android phone, but I don't see why it would.

[kindred thicket]

I see two ways:

1. Assign the AudioSource output to the Audio Mixer and add Normalize or Compressor effects.
2. Increase the gain using the MonoBehaviour.OnAudioFilterRead or PCMReaderCallback methods.

[heady iris]

Do you guys make your own sound effects or get free ones online?

[quasi hound]

I have free and paid libraries which I mix as needed
Hunting for free sounds is almost a lost cause, as free sound sites are filled to the brim with low quality effects, and effects that originate from paid libraries
OpenGameArt seems to have a good track record on not hosting stolen content, but I can unreservedly only recommend these from what I've encountered
https://sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc

[heady iris]

awesome thx

can't learn everything at once so I gotta stick to free sounds for now

[quasi hound]

Indeed
Hoping I get the time and resources to get properly into recording equipment and DAWs

[heady iris]

that's a whole other can of worms yeah hahaha

https://opengameart.org/content/zombie-crying

xD

[quasi hound]

That's silly, but actually scores pretty high relative to my expecations 😄
The mic quality is decent, no echo, very unlikely to have been stolen, not entirely misleading naming, no destructive filters or mixing

[heady iris]

There's some good stuff on there

just thought this one was funny

[quasi hound]

The best free stuff always seems to be promotional freebies from proprietary libraries or services

[heady iris]

makes sense

how would I control volume of all sounds if they are all individually attached to different objects?

might be a silly question

[quasi hound]

You'll probably want to use the mixer / a mixer group

[heady iris]

I'll take a look at it

thx thx

[quasi hound]

But it kinda depends how granular volume control you need

[heady iris]

for this project a simple on/off would do the trick

next project I want to implement setting your own volume though

[quasi hound]

Sure the mixer is great for that too

[heady iris]

when will I finally have seen everything unity has to offer 💀

every week a whole new thing to learn

[quasi hound]

In a few years of daily use

[heady iris]

[zenith lava]

I think the volume curve doesn't hit 0 if I'm not mistaking on the pic, try pulling it to 0 exact

[ruby dragon]

Probably a FAQ question but is there a general limit on active audio sources to respect now a days?

[quasi hound]

There are limits for real and virtual voices but other than that I think it's just up to your performance budget
https://gamedevbeginner.com/unity-audio-optimisation-tips/

[ruby dragon]

alright thank you ill take a look at this

[neat portal]

The answer has been ”it’s complicated” pretty much as long as unity has existed. There is just so huge difference between low end and high end devices.

[gritty talon]

do you suggest any fine free software to make some tunes for an indie game

[primal parcel]

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Hey all, is there a reason why the audio file played by the code in lik 2 does NOT play when the PickUp() function is called (even if it's called after?) It tells me I can't play audio on a destroyed object. But if I remove PickUp() the audio plays fine? Shouldn't it execute the audio first?

[mossy saffron]

It plays audio while the object is existing. If the audio source doesnt exist why would it play audio. Add a coroutine to place a delay before deleting the object

[primal parcel]

surprisingly was not the issue, but all sorted now thanks for the input 🙂

[outer palm]

Help pls, my script has to make it so that my slider changes the audio mixer volume for master audio, sfx audio, music audio an voice audio, but it doesn't work. Idk why pls help 😭

[tepid pasture]

1. your ide claims there arent any references to these functions, are they attached to an object instead? And maybe just set as the OnUpdate for some sliders in the game
2. dont post screenshots
3. ask in one of the code channels

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[elder dune]

How could I make the audio sound like the one in this video? Is a specific filter used?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoCqRi4xEHg

[solid parcel]

idk why but my audio is not heard like the debug works so the code is working but the audio does not play for some reason

[quasi hound]

Do your AudioSources work without any code, just Play on Awake?

[solid parcel]

no

its not played on awake at all

the flashlight works the paper works but the walk audio does not work

[near swallow]

Hey all

So I'm working on a game with my company, and I'm using the in built unity audio mixer for mixing the sounds and routing. The problem is that the mixes sound waaaaay off in the built game than in the unity engine on the play mode.

1. The sounds are way louder, to the point of a heavy distortion

2. The balance of individual tracks is off.

Has anybody encountered this issue before? I have dug thru the internet for three hours with no help.

[quasi hound]

Not immediately familiar with that kind of problem
What build platform is it?

[near swallow]

Windows

Intel 64-bit

Dunno if my thinking is right, but maybe the building process doesn't read the audio mixer right, or completely skips it, and uses the levels from the audio clips themselves

that's my hypothesis

[near swallow]

Problem solved, here's the forum post:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/audio-levels-are-very-different-in-the-engine-during-play-mod-vs-built-game.1411719/#post-8873691

[quasi hound]

So what exactly was it? Exposed parameters "improperly managed" how?
I've been using them no problem

[near swallow]

Welp, unexposing them solved the issue. And then probably those parameters had a too high value in the code, boosting the audio to +20, making it distorted

[near swallow]

Yo, what volume roll off are you guys usually use for isometric / moveable camera like in RTS / city builders?

[crisp schooner]

hey maybe its a stupid question but is there a audio slider or something for the editor. If i preview audio its so annoying loud. Or can i just turn it down via windows

[quasi hound]

I don't know of an editor setting besides the mute toggle it
However an easy alternative would be to use the Audio Mixer to control the volume of all sounds sources assigned to that mixer group

You'll probably want them in a mixer group regardless so you can eventually implement volume control easily for the user

[crisp schooner]

yeah sure for later i just always thought just for myself why the hell is there no audio slider just for editor audio like sfx or something^^
but still ty for the answer

[quasi hound]

Yea, one would think that'd be a standard feature
Then again I never realised it was missing until now!

[quasi hound]

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[stuck frost]

i just dont undestand why this is happening,everything that i import,even after editing,the audio no matter what will still have a silent section at the start/end of it,whyyy ywy

when i edited the sound i cut out the begining and the end of it but when i import it in unity it still has the start and end silent

[quasi hound]

What format are you importing from?

[stuck frost]

mp3

[quasi hound]

Check if the error occurs with .ogg

Or .wav

[stuck frost]

unity suppoert those files as audio aswell?

ill try

[boreal urchin]

hey guys has anyone here used behavior designer? im specifically asking about the Can Hear Task?

[next pond]

i want to make a rhythm based game but i need to have a second audio source not audible to the player that still works with audioSource.GetSpectrumData() , is that possible?

[stuck frost]

Is there any tool that can help make an audio loop seamless?

[quasi hound]

You could use Audacity to fade the start and end on top of each other
There's probably tutorials for that

[stuck frost]

I just finished working it, I tried LoopAuditioneer at first, just stressed me to my highest this week

Yeah there's yt tutorial for it (audacity )published 9 years ago and still works fine lol

[jagged arrow]

Is there a better way to do this:

Currently I have Piano and Trumpet as literal gameObject cubes in the scene. Like 15 of them representing pitches to use in background music. The game will then generate a melody at random and repeat that melody through randomly selecting cubes to set active.

I had a different MIDI randomizer that did not have gameObjects from a plug in language called ChucK that played MIDI directly from the code, but I could not find a good piano for it.

I realize the ability to save 'good' melodies is needed also.

Player presses button in game scene, melody is randomly generated.

What is the best way to make the sound in a simon-says sort of game? Like it plays a melody then you repeat it?

I am assuming it should be fine to just attach sounds to the objects themselves as they are setactive.

[ocean badge]

Should I save the FMOD studio file in a Unity folder and commit it with git?

[stuck frost]

I was trying to import a .mp3, it shows this .Anyone why this happening ?

[visual swallow]

the OnBeat event reacts perfectly in time with the music, however I want to check if player inputs are in time to the music, and this code doesn't work. I've done this right before for "quick time events" synced with music, so I'm not sure what's wrong here. (this is just a mockup, and i will move to the new input system when its done)

can anyone help me fix my code? again, OnBeat activates every beat of the song and works just fine (fires on time)
https://pastebin.com/4eRwFbVq

[weary minnow]

I am using English audio files in my unity project, currently there are 50 audio files I am playing through script on different button clicking and on different time. But now I want to add Hindi Audio versions of same 50 English audios and play them on Hindi language selection. So Is there any better way to implement this without much complication.

[visual swallow]

my question was probably better off in #archived-code-general oops

[visual swallow]

unity has a built in localisation system for all kinds of assets, and tools like yarnspinner or whatever you may be using for playing the files back also sometimes have localisation features

[valid pawn]

Is there any way to access the bindings for the AudioListener?

[visual swallow]

https://pastebin.com/iM8FE2Le this is my new working system for lining up inputs with the beat

if you do it too early it still doesn't seem to count however

I also added float timingWindow = beatLength / 2.5f; which seems to work really well

Idk why 2.5 is a good number for it but it works

[weary minnow]

Yes Unity has localization system but that is for text. But I am playing audios in different method using audioSource.PlayOneShot(audioclip); method if I add Hindi audios like english and want play them in every method then I have to check language selection condition in every method. and that will be more complex. So thats why I am asking how to manage both english and hindi audios efficiently.

[valid pawn]

Have a Dictionary for each language that holds the clip/path to the clip, then write a function that takes an enum (the language) and returns the corresponding path/audio clip based on the language currently selected.

[visual swallow]

how much do songs from ASCAP/BMI usually cost roughly?

say I wanted to license a song from Muse or 3DG for a game, would i be looking at thousands of dollars or a small one-time fee?

there arent any video tutorials on obtaining licenses for songs that i can find unfortunately

its so annoying that I would have to contact someone and wait for a response just for them to tell me the price of the song, which is why i would like to know rough estimates

if anyone has licensed music before lmk because it seems like a cool idea to have actual music from good bands in a videogame some day (this is entirely hypothetical - i have no money)

[eager phoenix]

Licensing a song from a famous band would be closer to tens of thousands of dollars or more.

[ruby orbit]

I need help with Wwise ?
I want to loop audio clips in music segment as a background sound and also want to switch it to another music segment just like Music switch container so how to do it in Wwise ? Or is there any way to loop music segment in Music switch container ?

[frosty meadow]

I want to loop this soundeffect below, can anyone help me make it seamless (make the point were it gets repeated less noticable). I tried for a long time in audacity, but no chance. You can hear some very noticable "Thump".

this is the whole soundeffect

[random copper]

can someone explain me audio in unity 2d

[quasi hound]

There's tutorials for how to crossfade a sound with itself to make it looping using Audacity, for example

Probably even programs specifically to create loops in various ways

[quasi hound]

Data goes in, sound comes out
It's pretty cool!

[random copper]

AAH

Thank you

[ocean badge]

How can I make the SFX of multiple cars engines sound good together? Because for now the overlapping SFXs are really weird.. (I can provide the audio files, maybe I need better SFX?)

[quasi hound]

It's hard to know what you mean by "weird" as opposed to "good" so maybe you'd want to record a clip of the cars driving so the issue could be more apparent

[ocean badge]

There are footsteps, car horns and car engines sounds here. But the engines sound weird (for now max 3 engines can be playing, because with more it would sound even worse)

(I am actually using FMOD)

[quasi hound]

It sounds like you're starting the car sound every frame again for every car

You'd rather loop just one instance of the sound per car

[ocean badge]

I am doing this:

    //Nearby cars is a list that can contain at max 5 cars (which need to be near enough)
    foreach(var nearbyCar in nearbyCars)
        FMODUnity.RuntimeManager.PlayOneShot(carEngineAudio, nearbyCar.Position);
}```
So yeah it might be that it is actually restarting the sound

[ocean badge]

Every physics frame I check with a Physics.OverlapSphere the 5 nearest cars and play the sound for each of them

[quasi hound]

Doing that repeatedly causes the problem you are hearing

[ocean badge]

Ok

[quasi hound]

I would rather simply have an AudioSource for each car

[ocean badge]

It's actually Unity ECS (and I am using FMOD) and I don't think I could use AudioSource.. and also, wouldn't it be overkill? Like have hundreds of audio sources all playing?

[quasi hound]

AudioSources that are inaudibly quiet are not played so they don't cost much
I'm not familiar with ECS or FMOD, but they probably have some kind of equivalent system for playing audio tied to an entity

Just hundreds of gameobjects with audiosources doesn't seem terrible to me
Thousands more so

[ocean badge]

Ok thanks!

[random copper]

can anyone get me a calm background audio for my 2d platformer please 🥺 Ping/mention me for reply

[bold salmon]

Nobody here is going to do your work for you. Go look online.

[random copper]

I am trying

but... 😦

[random copper]

ok i will check that

thanks BTW

[deft panther]

The localization system supports assets as well as text. You can localize audio clips. https://docs.

[spice elk]

hello, it cause crash?

[fresh sparrow]

I never faced a crash with this. Have you removed the main camera as well? I guess that's the reason for this issue.

[spice elk]

thank you

[tepid ember]

Hey! So I'm following a tutorial on adding sound effects to my game, but it's not working. it doesn't play the sound effects. Here's the script. Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

https://gdl.space/vecevohome.cpp

nvm i figured it out

[fluid lagoon]

Hoping someone might be able to suggest an app, Unity or not, which would allow me to take voice audio and convert to a light, fun, cartoonish teddy bear like voice (not necessarily a chipmunk, which seems to be just a sped up version of the audio). Thanks for any suggestions!

[gaunt gulch]

If it doesn’t have to be free, Antares has you covered https://www.antarestech.com/products/vocal-effects/mutator

[fluid lagoon]

Thank you!! I'll check it out!

[median dune]

Hi guys! Somehow in one of my scenes the music doesn't play

In my Menu Scene it works but when I press my start button (switches scenes) the other background music doesn't play. The first scene has a different song and it stops which is good

this would be my code:

[SerializeField] private AudioSource menuMusic;
 
    private string sceneName;

    void Start()
    {
        Scene currentScene = SceneManager.GetActiveScene();

        sceneName = currentScene.name;

        if (sceneName == "StartMenu")
        {
            menuMusic.Play();
        }
        else
        {
            menuMusic.Stop();
        }
    }

In both cases the camera has an audio listener, I put the respective gameobject into the serializedfield etc.

I literally have no clue 😄
Any ideas?

Other audio doesn't play neither like button clicks which are actually simple

[proud ginkgo]

imma newbie on audio related stuff (sampling ...etc)

can someone explain to me why spectrum display up and down in both direction? like what does it mean?

right or left ear?

[halcyon imp]

anybody know where there are free sound effects

[copper pollen]

you can browse itch.io for tons of free sound effects

[pliant badge]

Do people still buy the Sound Ideas libraries?

[pliant badge]

(Or any other kind of libraries?)

[zenith lava]

Both are left and right audio signal, I think the upward is left ear signal and downward right ear

[proud ginkgo]

thanks👍

[lunar crag]

hey, does someone here know if Steam Audio can be used in 2D?

[quasi hound]

I don't know the specifics of it, but "2D" in Unity doesn't really mean anything besides use of Sprite Renderers components and Rigidbody 2D physics

[lunar crag]

yea my problem is that i dont know how to setup audio occlusion in 2d, so that once you close the door of a room for example you hear the sound muffled from outside the room

[quasi hound]

If it requires 3D colliders or meshes, you'll have to use those
It's quite likely not designed with 2D in mind, but you can make 2D games out of 3D components just as well

[lunar crag]

okay, so just overlaying the 2d stuff with equivalent 3d rooms and make the sound happen in them?

[quasi hound]

That sounds like the way to go
How to do it exactly may depend on what exactly do you want to use 2D components for

and what components the sound spatialization system wants you to use as well

[lunar crag]

the game is basically this, so only 2d sprites and tilemaps having each a different order in layer

[quasi hound]

I think the tilemap extras package is the one that lets you assign prefabs to tiles, so you can have any components attached to them
Meaning you can give the walls and floors 3D colliders and even mesh renderers if needed

You'll probably have to have the whole level's colliders exist in parallel just for the sound simulation

But again it's (Steam Audio) not a system I'm familiar with so it's best to look for more solutions and second opinions

[lunar crag]

okay, thanks

[whole pewter]

that's not a spectrum, it's a waveform - samples in time
it's displayed 'in both directions' as convention - you/they can display it all above 0, but usually often samples are processed as [-f, f] so it makes more sense to draw them above and below 0

[placid skiff]

Question: How would you make sound dampened for being underwater? Which Audio-Effects would you use?

[quasi hound]

Low-pass filter

[placid skiff]

I just tried and that sounds like a good start. Thx.

[sharp charm]

Microphone.Start() and End() freezes the game for 0.5-1.0 second.

Does anyone know what that’s about?
Very jarring in VR

[ionic sandal]

Is there a way to find out if my audio clip has finished in the editor

[quasi hound]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource-isPlaying.html

[fickle compass]

i can't hear audio source on timeline how do i fix it?

[weary minnow]

In my VR Unity C# project I am using oculus interaction rig. I was installed MRTK also previously. I add menu interaction with controllers and hands with ray interactor provided by oculus. I made some changes to upload my vr app to meta store. I change the manifest file and add Arm 64 and Arm 84x version settings in unity. But now when I play unity and click button it stop the play mode and give error as follows: InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.
System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2+ValueCollection+Enumerator[TKey,TValue].MoveNext () (at <03bd9b261dff4c2b8b568aca27f561b2>:0)
Oculus.Interaction.PointableCanvasModule.Process () (at Assets/Oculus/Interaction/Runtime/Scripts/Unity/PointableCanvasModule.cs:348)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem.Update () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@1.0.0/Runtime/EventSystem/EventSystem.cs:514) . I am trying to solve this problem scince two day. But no success. Please let me know if anyone have solve same issue or if anyone know how to solve this problem.

[sacred bough]

hey i am wondering how to add music to my project

[grim flame]

Shuffle playlist

[dark hinge]

Hey, anyone here using AR/MR/XR in their work might be interested in this: #🤯┃augmented-reality message

[white stag]

I try change volume but it doesn't increase or decrease

[kindred thicket]

Unity released a new feature - Audio Random Container
https://forum.unity.com/threads/the-audio-random-container-23-2-alpha-feature-release.1426668/

[quasi hound]

Always welcome to get more "basic" features that were missing before

Anything that doesn't need to be coded in cuts down time cost and beginner obstacles

I might have called it a playlist instead, as that seems to be the fundamental function of it

[devout plinth]

Hey everyone,

So I am busy developing a game and I want some tips on how you guys decide which sound effects suits your game best.

I am not happy with shooting sound effect. But hopefully you guys can provide me some tips on how to get the right sounds.

Please mention me when you reply to me.

Thank you.

[urban plover]

I'm struggling to find the right kind of sound effects, partly because I don't know what things are called. What would you call a 'whoosh' type sound effect, but without the build up and tail?

Also, is zapsplat the best library for sound effects? That where I'm mostly looking

[urban plover]

If anyone has any advice or resources for someone trying to design satisfying audio for their indie game, please let me know, I'd be very appreciative

(by 'design', I really just mean selecting from existing free sounds, since I assume actually mixing your own is a bad return for the extra time it would take a single dev)

[quasi hound]

As far as I know a "whoosh" consists basically only of a build-up and the tail, so I'm not sure what one without either would sound like

It should be fairly trivial to edit sounds you find in small ways like that
Such as with Audacity's fade in/out filter

[urban plover]

hmm, maybe 'fwoom' ?

[next depot]

Any clue why an audio mixer group would be totally missing from my build? I get no errors

[stuck frost]

https://sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc

🙏

[floral quest]

I'm Having an issue with a unity play build. Whenever the lose or win sound starts playing the clip gets extremely loud and starts bugging out

https://play.unity.com/mg/other/webgl-builds-331408

stand on the spikes till you die

and the lose sound will play

but it will be super loud and distorted

compared to the original audio

[urban plover]

Oh god those are some huge downloads 😯

Even though I won't use 99.9% of them, I suppose it would be nice to have a huge library like that on my PC

37 GB 😂

Really though, the hard part is figuring out what kind of sound effect is appropriate in a given circumstance. A few times now I've been like 'oh, this is perfect.' And then once I actually have it in the game, it feels wack XD

[granite bone]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but has anybody tried setting up git with fmod plugin?
Should you gitignore plugin folder? Or will it break the integration and it's ok to store the plugin in the repo?

[quasi hound]

Generally Unity can keep track of references to missing files, so in the case of plugins it may sometimes be the best option to ignore the plugin's folder and download and import it separately

Though afaik this is mostly important to do only for assets that are too big for Git, or paid so you don't want to upload them to a public repo

[nimble berry]

Do ReverbFilters always cut the audio off?

or is there a flag or something I need to enable for it to work out?

[kindred thicket]

Unity's audio filters are active only when the AudioSource is playing an AudioClip. For this reason, I have abandoned filters and use mixer effects.

[tame ocean]

I have an issue where all of my audio work well in the unity edior and rest of my audio works fine in webgl, however 3 specific audio clips don't work in webgl

[quasi hound]

Are there any obvious clues how they might be different from the rest of your clips? Either different formats, file size or length on the audio asset, or different kinds of components playing them

[tame ocean]

they're both half a second long

and then a 1 second silence in the end

[quasi hound]

Assuming you've already googled to rule out common issues why audio might fail in webgl, you could try to pinpoint the issue with tests
Playing the same clips with different audio sources, different clips with the same audio sources, changing the audio import settings, making sure other build platforms work, etc

[silent elk]

Does anybody know how the Distortion audio effect works? All it gives you is a number from 0-1, no db measurements or exact values or anything, and the documentation says barely anything about what it does. I want to have distortion done on the game's end but I'd really not know how to go about creating my own proprietary audio plugin

i could look into fmod but the one time I tried to learn it proved how incredibly daunting it seems to pick up

yeah that's probably just the best course of action at this point, ignore me

[spare narwhal]

fmod isn't the easiest thing to pick up

but damn it, if its not strong and capable

genuinely

I've been making music as long as I've been making games, and where ever they intersect fmod has had my back

I remember the hacky solutions I used to come up with in favor of an actual audio engine before I started using fmod with unity

and looking at the wwise documentation makes my heart skip a beat

[cunning herald]

Hey guys I wanted to ask about getting the current length of an audio file as a percentage. We have 2 different versions of the same song for combat / noncombat but their length has a few seconds difference. I want to transition between them by getting the first songs length percentage and apply it to the second one when playing it so that the music continues at relatively the same time as the other version.

[spare narwhal]

I think its easier and safer to make both the sounds exactly the same length

[cunning herald]

Yeah that is true but it would take quite a long time right now to change all of the music. I wanted to test this out to see if it works out at all and then maybe make an update later on if possible.

[spare narwhal]

well even if you did get a percentage and made that work, on each consecutive loop which ever sound is shorter will progressively get more and more out of loop

even in something like fmod, I have to get both the audio clips perfectly aligned and of the same length

granted fmod has a track view so I can trim audio, but it still has to be done

[cunning herald]

Hmm that's true. I still wanted to try it out if possible but thank you.

[spare narwhal]

its definitely possible, but not the way to go IMO since you're replacing one problem with another

[cunning herald]

Yeah definitely isn't, just started out on the music system and wanted to implement a few things while the audio files get synched up length wise by our artist.

[spare narwhal]

if you want, I can send you some of mine

[cunning herald]

Thanks for the advice :).

[spare narwhal]

perfectly synced and of the same length

[cunning herald]

Hmm thanks so much, we had a few placeholders for a while anyway but I'm just excited to try the actual songs in-game to get a feel for how it sounds.

[spare narwhal]

sure, if you don't want to wait up on artists you can download audacity and chop away

it has gotten really user friendly as of late

[cunning herald]

Oh yeah maybe that's a better idea actually.

[spare narwhal]

well good luck, and remember never use mp3s

[cunning herald]

Oh.

[cunning herald]

Wait why not?

Enlighten me please oh audio programmer god :)

[spare narwhal]

well it used to be under patent and you needed a license to distribute any kind of mp3 files

[cunning herald]

I've heard .wav is pretty bad for size optimization.

[spare narwhal]

that patent has "expired" as of 2017

and I put that in quotes since where ever there is legal hazy-ness someone will abuse it

[cunning herald]

Ah dang. Thanks for the tip.

[spare narwhal]

.wavs are excellent for any thing that has to do with music

[cunning herald]

Ok i'll go with .wav for the music then. Thanks again!

[spare narwhal]

anything else I'd recommend ogg

[spare narwhal]

no problem, just looking out

[quasi hound]

Mp3 is very lossy and inefficiently compressed, tend to get pops and pauses on import and outright fail on some build targets from what I've seen

[quasi hound]

Wav (or .aif possibly) are always the best for source audio files, but they are the largest files
Ogg is a lossy compression format so it's less than ideal for quality but if you want to keep project size down it may be preferable

[spare narwhal]

I use wavs for everything, music or not

cause no matter what I know that it will work every time

oggs seem to hold a grudge against me

[quasi hound]

On build all audio will be recompressed according to audio compression settings defined in Unity so only the raw quality of the file format matters

[spare narwhal]

way I see it, unless you're working on a mega AAA game where everything has multiple unique sounds, and a big dynamic music system that uses individual stems, keeping audio uncompressed is fine

I remember when Titanfall came out and the devs released the game with 35 gbs of fully uncompressed audio

[quasi hound]

It doesn't look to me that there's a way to turn off compression entirely and it probably wouldn't be very sane to do so, there's a reason we don't store textures as BMPs either
By default Unity compresses all audio using Vorbis which is perfectly sensible

[spare narwhal]

yeah I just turn it as low as I can

[quasi hound]

Low?

[spare narwhal]

yeah

[quasi hound]

The default compression setting is Vorbis with max quality

[spare narwhal]

oh in native unity

I use FMOD and the default is 75%

[quasi hound]

Right

[quasi hound]

Does FMOD have encoding formats besides Vorbis, PCM and ADPCM

Assuming it uses those as well

[spare narwhal]

no, they use the same encoders as unity

[quasi hound]

So what do they use?

Besides Vorbis, apparently

[spare narwhal]

they use the same encoders

[quasi hound]

Oh, misread

[spare narwhal]

miss typed

I think there have been talks about adding opus encoding

[quasi hound]

Anyway, I think triple A devs bloating their game sizes are not setting a good example to follow
Trying to get a good balance of install/download size, load time and quality is empathy towards the user as well

[spare narwhal]

of course

no contest there

I don't even think most people would notice the difference between 96kbs streams and 1000kbs+ streams

[midnight relic]

why i cant put the audio clip?

[quasi hound]

Looks like it wants an Audio Source rather than an Audio Clip

[midnight relic]

what is the diffr

differance

[quasi hound]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-AudioClip.html

Audio clips contain the audio data used by Audio Sources

[midnight relic]

this maybe the problem?

the clip it self?

[quasi hound]

Why would it be a problem?

[thin orchid]

this is the AudioSource component

the script works fine as it is the component when i run the game

but the audio stops after few milliseconds when i play, while the component contains the clip as this above image

can't find any solution anywhere, any help will be appreciated

[thin orchid]

this is the script

[quasi hound]

@thin orchid what do the clip waveforms look like

[meager falcon]

Could it be because the source.Play() gets called repeatedly in the Update method? Because when you .Play() a specific audio source, it will play the new one and end the previously playing one (sorry, bad at explaining but hopefully you got the point)

So I think you could try removing the .Play() from the update method, only keep it in the Start()

[signal wraith]

from what I can tell, he'd need some additional logic in order to play those clips properly

should also look into audio source properties such as loop for this

[timber raven]

does someone know how to translate melodies into sheet music?

[urban plover]

Has anyone ever spent an hour looking for a sound effect for something, and feel like you just can't find one that fits?

[urban plover]

It's possible there's an AI tool for that

seems like the type of thing an AI could do

[timber raven]

Tried it and it got smth close thx

[vocal fractal]

I am trying to create a clock which runs alongside a song that is playing in my game, and I need this clock to follow the BPM of the song. It should avoid going off beat

Does anyone know how this can be achieved?

[bleak socket]

There is some one who use Wwise and Unity for Nintendo Switch Game ?

[kindred thicket]

You can use AudioSettings.dspTime to calculate clock to follow the BPM. Play audioclips through the AudioSource.PlayScheduled(dspTime) for accurate sync.

Unity has recently started updating old assets, including MegaCity
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Megacity-Sample
but they broke audio system, it looks like DSPGraph is not compatible with latest DOTS.
You can still download the original project shown at GDC 2019 (requires Unity 2019.1.0b7)
http://megacity.unity3d.com/MegaCity_GDC2019_Release_OC.zip

Some documentation

[severe eagle]

A composition using a hybrid of synth and orchestra: https://youtu.be/SVMiz-CC_Gc

[granite bone]

Is there a good way to handle constructive interference (the same sound playing simultaneously a bunch of times and becoming very loud) with FMOD? I've tried googling but solutions come down to hardcoding thing like limiting amount of instances or applying snapshots from code depending on conditions. Is there any modular and flexible approaches to this problem?

(Built-in limiter is capped at -12DB and it's not low enough)

[kindred thicket]

There is no 100% solution, even AAA studios screw up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq5292Riwig

In my opinion, best solution is to make audio system that will analyze and filter single and multiple calls.
The point is that instead of hundreds of audioclips of small action, play one audioclip of BIG action (or several audioclips to keep spatial sound).

TLOU audio system quickly goes into voice limit.
Instead of a thousand single consecutive explosions, it was possible to play ONE loop of many explosions.

[granite bone]

Thanks for the reply, I'll try catching all event calls and calling different event\params based on their amount and limit amount of instances to prevent a bunch of triggers sequentially layering on top of each other

[sonic kite]

How to make zone where when camera with player is sounds on and when he leave zone it will not play??

[feral geyser]

Halo
Kinda not specific to unity
Is there a way for unity to read a multi track audio file? And get the separate audio signal from each track?

[kindred thicket]

Check out this free asset, the zone implementation is very simple
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/audio/ambient/audioroom-184013

[whole pewter]

unity can import up to 8 ch
you have access to them so you can create new AudioClip for each
(IIRC currently there's a bug creating AudioClip assets in the editor in that it doesn't store data in them but you can do it at runtime)

[naive skiff]

I'm trying to figure out how to create a way for when players walk up to the ocean they can hear it as they approach. Would one create a trigger collider and have the audio play depending on the distance? How do other games do it?

[quasi hound]

Scaling volume by distance is very simple, don't even need a trigger for that
But is it suitable for all circumstances your player will get into?

[naive skiff]

Its a island that the player/players will live on and they'll have the ability to sail to different islands.

[quasi hound]

For example a long coast can't be accurately represented by a distance to a point, because the radius is circular

If you have a round island, you could tie sea volume to the inverted distance to the island's center

But only if your island is round enough

And if you have multiple islands you could measure distance to all of them and multiply the result, though with many islands you might have to optimize to only track the nearest

If your sea sound needs to be directional also, that's another constraint to consider

There's many shortcuts and solutions available but they really depend on how you need to have the sound work exactly

For instance if you have a map of the scene with land and sea represented, that could be converted to a SDF texture so by sampling it you would always know how close to the sea the player is

Or maybe it would be simpler to have waypoints or a curve along coasts to measure distance to

[feral geyser]

Good to know
I'm kinda researching about these "multi track audio format" but... for simplicity's sake i might just export as multiple from Audacity and put them all in Unity, assigning each to the channels and call it a day

[kindred thicket]

First of all, you must represent array of multichannel audio. Unity stores audio data in interleaved channel order.
There are several ways to separate multichannel audio:
— Split multichannel AudioClip data into separate uncompressed mono AudioClips (eats memory!) using AudioClip.Create and AudioClip.GetData/AudioClip.SetData. Each created AudioClip can be assigned to separate AudioSources and played simultaneously via AudioSource.PlayScheduled(dspTime) for sample accurate sync.
— Read separate channels of multichannel AudioClip through MonoBehaviour.OnAudioFilterRead (may break due to garbage collector, not supported in WebGL platform).

[wet flame]

Hey! I saw this recommended here a few times and while you state its simple i managed to not make it work.

In my opinion i followed the read me and example scene very closely
however when i press play the music is everwhere instead of just in the Audio Room Box D:

[kindred thicket]

you missed "Spatial Blend" setting in music AudioSource, it should be set to 1 for full 3D,
and "Doppler Level" to 0.

[kindred thicket]

btw I'm also confused by default AudioSource settings, such as enabled doppler 🙂

[sonic kite]

Thank you bro, i can look on that today

[onyx oar]

I have a lot of individual audio sources that in some cases are triggered all at the same time, causing a nasty increase in volume and some clipping

I would like to maintain the effect that when there are multiple, the effect is more intense

What would be a good approach for this?

[neat portal]

Spline which surrounds the coast and audio source placed into closest point to player on spline is common solution for these.

[kindred thicket]

— Simplest workaround is to assign AudioSources to Audio Mixer Group, add limiter effect... Actually, we don't have limiter but it can be replaced using "Duck Volume" effect.
Check Paalo's workaround: https://forum.unity.com/threads/simple-limiter.308694/#post-3515736

— Another approach is to adjust volume of AudioSources depending on their amount.
Something like this:
public AudioSource[] audioSources; private float setVolume; void Start() { setVolume = 1.0f / audioSources.Length; for (int i = 0; i < audioSources.Length; i++) { audioSources[i].volume = setVolume; } }
More complex system can prioritize selected AudioSource, its volume may be higher than the rest.
This can also be done through ducking effect in Audio Mixer.

— If AudioSources play same AudioClip - set (seek) random sample position for each AudioSource. It will also reduce overall volume and clipping.
audioSources[i].timeSamples = Random.Range(0, audioSources[i].clip.samples); audioSources[i].Play();
Remember to check for close sample positions to avoid phaser or echo effects.

[onyx oar]

awesome, I will try that; I did try using the duck volume effect but I didn't know how to set it up properly

I already play the sounds with a random delay, but I didn't think of starting playback at a different time, that may help too

thank you 👏

[wet flame]

Hey that already helped a bit! However the song never disappears and i am always able to hear it somewhere quietly,
do you happen to know which settings i have to play around with to make it sth i cant hear anymore when im a bit farer away? 🙂

[kindred thicket]

Good to know.
The issue is probably Logarithmic Rollof in AudioSource 3D Sound Settings.
Change Volume Rolloff to Linear Rolloff and adjust MinDistance and MaxDistance bounds to your needs (AudioSource Gizmos shows this bounds)

[wet flame]

That was it! Thank you so much it works perfect now ❤️ 🙂 Happy friday to you 🙂

[twilit trellis]

I've set up an audio source to play in my game, however when I change it to a 3D spacial blend it fails to play at all

it does play normally though if the spacial blend is left to 2D

here's the actual component in inspector itself (the playing of the clip is controlled by script)

[cyan umbra]

Is there a place to find free royalty free music without needing a subscription

[dry monolith]

anybody uses the oculus audio sdk here? i can't figure out how to install it on unity

[stuck frost]

Opinions?

[gritty ice]

My last piece of music realized for an RPG in Los Angelese. Recorded in Sofia (Bulgaria)with the European Recording Orchestra. Conducted by me 😄 https://youtu.be/OZ2WornZAAo

[unkempt salmon]

can somebody help me. i have script thats supposed to play sound when items are combined. i have added audio source to items and assigned needed audio. when i add "combineSound.Play()" in start() sound can be heared but not when items are combined. Here's the script

[bold salmon]

!code on how to share. Nobody is going to download a file on mobile.

[karmic bone]

Posting code

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[unkempt salmon]

https://pastebin.com/CZeCAiYu

[bold salmon]

Nevermind, don't crosspost @unkempt salmon

[kindred thicket]

It seems that part of combined item is destroyed along with AudioSource (combineSound), the sound does not have time to play.
This is a common issue using the Destroy(gameObject), please check solutions:
https://answers.unity.com/questions/1213839/destroy-object-and-play-sound.html
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68612727/unity-game-collectable-not-playing-sound-effect

[lapis phoenix]

Anyone here who does/did creature sfx?
I'd like to get into it but idk how and where to start 👀

[limpid pumice]

Hello. Is there a way to set different audio output devices for different mixers?

[kindred thicket]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/audio/audiostream-pcm-audio-for-unity-65411
I haven't used this asset, but it can send different audio to different system outputs.

[whole pewter]

^ yea but be aware that mixer effect for this particular usage is available only for macOS and win{x86,x64} (disclaimer: i'm the author of the asset)

[silk obsidian]

🗃️ Documentation

Import Settings

Packages

DSP Graph
Google Resonance

Middleware

• FMOD
• Wwise
• Fabric

📚 Resources

Tutorials

• Audio Import Optimisation
• Audio Mixer
• Creating audio managers:
  Pyramind • A Sound Effect

Sound Libraries

• Unity Asset Store
• Freesound

🤔 Troubleshooting

Audio cannot be heard

🗺️ Roadmap

Audio and Video roadmap

[severe eagle]

A recent composition for Space Trash Scavenger. A bluesy-country style track using guitar, banjos and synths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxSz1y6JOzE

[timber cypress]

excuse me, how would I get sound effects of fighter jets flying really fast over the player?

[kindred thicket]

It depends. Your question is about implementation or sound design?

[timber cypress]

sound design. I have no access to a twin engine aircraft, nor do I have a runway or audio equipment.

[kindred thicket]

Sound of moving objects is based on Doppler effect and air absorption. I'm not a sound designer, but you can find tutorials on YouTube to create a doppler effect in your DAW. Aircraft samples are available in free libraries (check GDC Game Audio Bundles).

[north ginkgo]

is it too difficult to make background music?

[hard gulch]

Why would it be too difficult?
Do you mean adding it to the game or actually making it?

[edgy oyster]

Isn't the Doppler effect just noise changing based on how far away a sound is and if it's moving near or away from you? Wouldn't it be simpler to just automate the volume to decrease as it moves away and increase when it gets closer?

[eager phoenix]

Doppler effect changes the pitch, not the volume

[quasi hound]

You'll likely want to be looking at sound libraries
You may be-hard pressed making complex sound effects without hardware, software or experience

[north ginkgo]

actually making it

[shell swan]

hey so i seem to be doing something wrong trying to set up transition markers in FMOD and i can't figure out what.

I have a destination marker "loop start" and a transition point that i thought was set up to only loop if IsLooping is set to 1. But it also loops when set to 0 for some reason. Is my condition set up wrong?

[violet cave]

Hey, I'm looking for optimisations using Unity's AudioSources. Currently I only have a script that disables AudioSources outside of a certain range of the player, which helped to some degree, however, I'm still seeing about 6% CPU usage from AudioManager.Update.

[ember pagoda]

have you tried clckig inverted in the transition conditions field?

[shell swan]

i did and that just makes it not loop regardless of the IsLooping setting instead

[ember pagoda]

yep, until I started to use FMOD which has a built in sound store. every SFX file for 0.99$ is pretty decent.

[shell swan]

here's my parameter settings in case the problem is there

[shell swan]

it turns out the problem was "hold value during playback"

[quick tapir]

I have a problem when using csharp AudioClip requestClip = DownloadHandlerAudioClip.GetContent(request); it gives me the error Error: Cannot create FMOD::Sound instance for clip "" (FMOD error: Unsupported file or audio format. ) UnityEngine.Networking.DownloadHandlerAudioClip:GetContent (UnityEngine.Networking.UnityWebRequest) MusicFolderScanner/<loadSong>d__17:MoveNext () (at Assets/_Assets/_Scripts/_Menu/MusicFolderScanner.cs:155) UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine:InvokeMoveNext (System.Collections.IEnumerator,intptr) and it gets stuck in a loop saying the error all the time idk what to do to fix it, im using Unity 2022.3.0 LTS. I've tried many ways and its always the same this error provoke some huge lag that I cannot do anything just unplay and hit play again, some audio mp3 gives this idk why

I didnt import Fmod used the one that came with Unity basically made a new project and that code gives error

I've tried to use try{}catch in >>> AudioClip requestClip = DownloadHandlerAudioClip.GetContent(request); but still it doesnt catch the error and gets stuck in an infinite error loop

[kindred thicket]

Show pls your request code.
Perhaps issue is in the wrong AudioType of downloaded AudioClip

[quick tapir]

The issue was that the audio was mp4a codec so I used ffmpeg to convert to wav and now it works

[frank spear]

How can I get shaped reverb zones to fit into rooms without having to sell a liver to get an asset like this https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/audio/dearvr-unity-3d-audio-reality-engine-56127 or to expend so much time scripting and doing weird stuff? Is there any free/easy solution to this?

[gleaming knot]

why audio mixer is not working in build? in editor I can change the sound volume with a slider but the same slider does nothing after building

[violet bane]

Making music in fl any feedback?

Its for a cartoony platformer indie game

[feral geyser]

Just got to it. The multi track setup is done, and yes first time using PlayScheduled
I'm making an audiovisual project and there seems to have an uncommon delay. As in, the visuals (from GetSpectrumData) reacts a bit earlier than the AudioListened' sound (coming out of the speakers)
So.. the opposite of the common problem of the data processing is delayed

How is this possible? Could it be GetSpectrumData can sample a bit further into the clip due to a delay from the AudioSource to the Listener, then speaker somehow?

[dusty geyser]

Can anyone recommend a good video on music theory basics?

[grim quail]

Is Microsofts Project Acoustics any good? Also what are the terms for using it and how does it impact performance?

[formal depot]

This may be a question that takes me to another server entirely

but I'm looking for some...general advice on good foley work

actually this is totally not relevant for this server, since this has nothing to do with unity :p

[marsh talon]

hmm not really too sure of any good videos off the top of my head. I could help you out a bit if you want

[gloomy tendon]

Do anyone know a chill beat background music for game trailer ?

No Copyright

[stuck frost]

Maybe I might be able to create one, I am trying to become better at making music and the only thing that I am good at for now is making beats

[loud breach]

Hi, please ping me if you have an answer, but I'm wondering what the most effective way of storing a variety of audio SFX in Unity should be? Like if you have a large array of SFX, how do you get the manager to draw upon those sections of audio well? I doubt cramming all of them into one manager's a good idea.

Do you tie it to specific objects/ie, if a character has a specific SFX associated with them, they're the ones playing the SFX instead?

[gloomy tendon]

Thanks but... My game is a no-bugget game 😅...I will remember you... maybe in future when I have Money 👍

[stuck frost]

Well I am not an expert in making music, I started just a week ago so the maximum amount that I could ask is just 5 dollars

I am a programmer, not a music artist so I couldnt ask more then 5 dollars

[gloomy tendon]

I appreciate your interest towards learning to make music but man... I am a student I can't afford it rn... I am launching my first game on Friday... If I get some money from it and if I needed some music for my other game then I will surely contact you : )

[stuck frost]

Welp okay, but I will not be able to make anything too advanced.
I am good at doing 3 things:
Programming, editing videos, finding bugs in games.
So if you will be searching for any of these 3 things that I said I will be happy to help, but with music I am not the best person to contact

I am searching for an audio maker too, but sadly I can't find anyone so I am trying to learn it

[hybrid sable]

hey, anyone know of a simple chiptune music generator?

[gloomy tendon]

Oh I see

[gloomy tendon]

sure

[cyan glen]

FMOD has built in sound store? I have FMOD but didn't see that 0.0

[cyan glen]

Hello 🤪

[quasi hound]

!collab

[karmic bone]

📢 Collaborating and Job Posting

We do not accept job or collab posts on discord.
Please use the forums:
• Commercial Job Seeking
• Commercial Job Offering
• Non Commercial Collaboration

[stuck frost]

I am not searching for people in this server, I am searching for people irl

[silk obsidian]

Then don't use this server to do so

[stuck frost]

I'm not?

[silk obsidian]

You asked if they wanted to work with you/make music for your game. That is using this server for collab/job posting, and is against our rules

[desert ice]

Might wanna try the Meta XR Audio SDK. It's pretty decent,

[wicked kayak]

is there any way to trim audio in unity so it only plays up to a certain point (say 3 seconds instead of the entire 4)?

if someone could just tell me the setting or the code for it I can look up how to do it. Can't find much rn

[random shore]

Helo 🙂
Is there a a way to add a Audio Listener to the "Scene Window" so that I can test 3d spatial audio using the scene view.
Moving camera here and there to test every audio is a bit time consuming.

[random shore]

camera.current is returning wrong values, SceneView.currentDrawingSceneView.camera doesnt seem working too.
But "UnityEditor.SceneView.lastActiveSceneView.camera" seems to return correct values.
I didn't get answer but I'll leave it here so that someone might find it helpful in the future.

[mint dirge]

Also posted in web gl: Hey all. Maybe somebody can help me here. I uploaded a project to itch as a web gl. Sound crackles and then goes silent. Using unity 2020. I've uploaded web gl games with unity 2019 and never had this problem. Is there a known bug? Thanks.

[desert ice]

you can start a coroutine and wait for seconds up to 3, and then reference your audio source and tell it to pause or stop

[wicked kayak]

hmm I see.. I guess I'm better off manually editing sound effects in audacity

[random shore]

If you are using timeline and it is for cut scenes etc, you can trim, cut, split just like traditional audio editing software. But if you are using those samples for ingame FX, loops, etc. Using audacity makes more sense.

[wicked kayak]

Oh I gotcha, great to hear

[quasi hound]

That'd be a neat feature, maybe worth suggesting on the roadmap
There's the hotkey to move the selected object to scene view which works well for the camera
You may be able to write or find an editor script to stick the camera to the scene view more persistently, probably with no big difficulty
Or if you just need to "demo" each audio source's spatialization, it may be sufficient to animate the camera to move around in a test room with the audio sources

[random shore]

Thanks @quasi hound
I culdn't find an internal solution so I write something that gets camera values from UnityEditor.SceneView.lastActiveSceneView.camera and moves the audio listener to that location. And that worked.
But I think Unity should be doing this in scene view by default.

[quasi hound]

I can't seem to find any specific upper limits for filesize of clip length, but usually there is a cutoff point somewhere
You should be able to test with it with shorter / smaller versions of the clip
12 hour clip really sounds overkill, what could it be necessary for?

[barren robin]

hey everyone, i'm having some troubles with sounds in my webgl build. all the sounds work great in the editor, but in my webgl build, a couple of the sounds are much quieter and more muted than all the others. all of them are stereo and the import settings are all identical, and they are all played in exactly the same way in my code. are there any other things i can check to make sure there are no discrepancies?

[drowsy wind]

hello there, any one here can help me with the OnAudioFilterRead method?
i need to simulate (run from vitually) this method from WebGL... but i´m not sure of how to do this.

[median yew]

#502171626805133312 ?

[severe eagle]

Still in development 🙂

[median yew]

#archived-works-in-progress then ?

[severe eagle]

Sure I can move it

[stuck frost]

Hey @severe eagle could you check DMs please?

[worn veldt]

Found a cool online audio granulator: https://austintheriot.github.io/resonix/ .

[ember geode]

Anyone know how and where/what to use to recreate this sound effect at the end of the laser in dani's vid at 7:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhhSDrA6stw&t=468s

[dusty zephyr]

How do you perfectly loop a sound? Since right now there is a gap between it everytime

[quasi hound]

The audio data itself must not contain gaps, and must be loopable to begin with (such as by crossfading the start and end together), then it must not be imported as an mp3 which apparently can add gaps to the clip

[dusty zephyr]

Would a WAV be good then instead of mp3?

[quasi hound]

Yes

[bold salmon]

@wheat shuttle !collab

[karmic bone]

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[fringe mason]

different daws have different ways of handling creating a looping track but a simple way could just be to fade in/out and make sure u arent leaving space at the beginning/end of the track, nothing to do with the filetype

[dapper hull]

Hi guys, does anyone is using Dear Vr ?
I have troubles to play sound on a specific channel and i cant find any docs on this

[iron parrot]

came for the very same reason
my wav clip is perfectly loopable.
however after converting to ogg it inserts a gap in the end.
there must be a way to tell the ogg conversion software not to let that happen (i'm assuming the gap is created by the conversion software when it sees there's "empty space" in the end)

[quasi hound]

What is the conversion software? I use Audacity to convert and it's never done that with .ogg

[iron parrot]

tried a couple different softwares, but it turns out i found the "problem"
and it was in the reproduction, not in the conversion
i saw the audio length was exactly the same (between wav and ogg)
and then tried reproducing it in a different place (inside unity) and there was no loop gap

windows player, the one that comes with windows, had the WAV looping without issues, but started to gap the OGG loop
unity, on the other hand, played both loops gapless

[sour bridge]

where can I get some free, really simple music for a background soundtrack

[toxic mirage]

Is there a way to know when an AudioSource has finished (reached the end of its current audio clip) without having a script that's constantly checking if(audioSource.isPlaying) on a non lopping audio clip?

[quasi hound]

Probably not, unless you check the clip length and wait for its duration to check again or assume it's ended by that time

[toxic mirage]

Yeah, the only solution I could find online was to Invoke the next clip at the start of the current clip, and set the wait time to be equal to the current clip's length. I just know using Invoke can be kinda messy/unsafe, so I was hoping there was an alternative.

[quasi hound]

What's messy about it?
You could alternatively use a coroutine or a timer to wait

Is it necessary to avoid checking isPlaying?

[toxic mirage]

Yeah I'm not going to have an Update method that's just constantly running for a if check.

As far as messy, there's no real way to stop the Invoke, without cancelling all Invokes on that method. I guess "messy" isn't the right work. Just not clean/efficient as say a coroutine (where you can store it and stop it specifically). Again, just feeling out my options.

[quasi hound]

Checking a bool in Update is not expensive
If you've got hundreds of them and have to avoid having Update at all I can understand wanting to optimize it, but generally this is rarely a problem

[orchid lintel]

i have a collaboration workflow question for FMOD people. Do yall usually make a separate repo for the fmod project; or is there a way yall bake the fmod banks into the unity project's repo?

[whole pewter]

that's not strictly speaking FMOD question, with large separate assets you can e.g. use submodule/s, or LFS

[orchid lintel]

@whole pewter so everyone that's working on the project does also need the full fmod project locally for them to hear sounds in the unity project ya? there isn't some way to bake the fmod banks / builds into the unity project?

[whole pewter]

that's different question and no
read fmod docs at least, the banks (audio + functionality) are part of final build

[whole pewter]

banks in unity project are made available via FMOD for Unity package

[orchid lintel]

i think we're completely missing each other. all g though, ill check docs again

[distant shoal]

wtf unity?

why is unity adding the souls of the damned into my audio

[quasi hound]

What's the file format and export settings?

[distant shoal]

mp3, project rate 8000hz

[quasi hound]

Try ogg or wav instead
8 kHz is an extremely low sample rate
I'd try 44.1 kHz instead

[formal depot]

The highest frequncy possible is half of the sampling rate

so you were clamped to 4khz

also, you didn't show the quality settings for the mp3

if it's on a low bitrate, it'll get very...watery

High quality MP3 audio is something like 320kbps

[slim marten]

So here's a question that is most likely totally out of place on this server but I've contacted multiple audio engineers and even posted on the Audacity forum and Dicord and am still at a loss.

Has anyone ever encountered a raw data file containing 4-bit pcm audio data? I'm trying to find a way to convert it cleanly (with no loss of quality) or at the very least open it properly so I can screen-capture to record the audio as it plays properly. I'd like to use the audio in Unity, which is why I'm asking here. Any help is appreciated.

[formal depot]

so it's literally just a sequence of 4-bit samples

[slim marten]

Yes (there is some other data mixed into the same file but those parts aren't important)

[formal depot]

shouldn't be too hard to write a script that just expands it into 8-bit samples

[slim marten]

That would be fantasticly useful.

I can provide one of the files if you're interested

[formal depot]

sure

[slim marten]

There is some other data in the same file so there will be some areas with garbage noise, that's okay as long as the majority of the audio comes out correctly.

[formal depot]

hmm, this doesn't seem right

I can kind of hear some sounds

[slim marten]

Did you try changing signed/unsigned and endianness? I don't know the 100% correct format, sorry.
If i import the file into audacity as 8-bit pcm, the audio is recognisable but half the samples are missing (and the other half aren't quite correct) so the audio is highly distorted.

Correction: the correct format seems to be signed 4-bit, little-endian pcm

[formal depot]

thinking about endianness in single bytes is making my head hurt

are you sure it's not just 8-bit? this sounds way more coherent that way

import sys

data = open(sys.argv[1], "rb").read()

result = []

for byte in data:
    result.append((byte >> 4) & 15)
    result.append(byte & 15)

open(sys.argv[2], "wb").write(bytes(result))

i tried both orderings, since I wasn't sure how it'd be packed

both of these sounds like absolute noise

interpreting 4-bit audio as 8-bit audio would cause very violent distortion

[quasi hound]

Where did the data come from?

[slim marten]

a 1997 video arcade game, which is why I believe it's 4-bit. (Loading it in an 8-bit format is missing half the samples)

[plush lynx]

recording sfx today

[left raptor]

I'm annoyed cause in audacity the audio is perfectly fine but when I import it into blender it has like half a second of no noise before it actually plays the audio. Is there any solution to this?

[pastel silo]

where do you guys get sfx from your video games

[green drum]

Does anyone here have experience with FMOD studio? I'm having trouble with fading out my track when it stops. I've enabled allowfadeout and the AHDSR

[torn zenith]

Hi !
Is anybody using DearVr ? I can't find a way to play my audio on 2D (left/right)

[mellow dawn]

I'm working on a 2D top down puzzle game, do you guys have any opinions or examples should I make the SFXs play as 2D sounds or 3D sounds? I'm not sure what's the correct way to think about it

there doesn't seem to be much on the internet to read on it, at least I can't find it

also, I'm using FMOD

[quasi hound]

You'd use 2D or 3D sounds depending on which one you want in your game
Or the third option which is 2D sounds with 3D distance attenuation

[mellow dawn]

alright so all those options are valid, I see. Do you happen to know examples of 2D games that have 3D sounds? I don't want to go for something that is not tried and tested by the industry

[quasi hound]

All three are used commonly, and they barely differ in implementation
Streets of Rogue is one such 2D game with 3D positional stereo sound

Most old 2D games had purely 2D sound, which usually did not play the sound effect at all if the source was off screen, assuming the game area is large enough for that to be relevant

2D sounds with distance attenuation works the same as 3D positional stereo sounds but without the stereo pan effect

[mellow dawn]

alright, thank you! I'll try the 3D sound approach then

[severe eagle]

Some progress on our game Project Star Head. What are your thoughts on the music I composed? I'm going for a spacey, lonely feel using guitar, strings and synth. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GIvB8NI-csM

[plush haven]

does anyone know how to make directional audio that well comes from a direction and also gets quiter the farther you are from it in 2d?

[charred pier]

Is there a built in way to trim audio clips in unity or do I just have to open them in audacity

[quasi hound]

Make a 3D spatial sound just as if you were in 3D space and position your Audio Listener in a way that works in the 2D perspective

[autumn ember]

Sup Unity group. Anyone able to install this https://www.nuget.org/packages/NAudio/ - NAudio on macOS

chatGPT gives me some dlls files to import in the assets folder in my project, which. I cannot find

[plush haven]

Well I tried but it is always full volume from no direction anyways playing no matter where I am

[quasi hound]

That happens if Spatial Blend is 2D instead of 3D or if the audio source overlaps with the audio listener component

[plush haven]

The audio listener is on the camera and I check it doesn't overlap unless it has a radius of its own and it is on 3d

[quasi hound]

Can you show the audio source component properties? Assuming you're playing it through a specific audiosource and not PlayClipAtPoint method

[plush haven]

I can't rn I just woke up and saw your response

[rose fossil]

Hi, how can simulate what a gunshot sounds like if the player is inside of a car?

[covert rain]

You could try https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-AudioReverbFilter.html
Can't say I know much about them, but since your question has gone unanswered for so long I thought I'd throw in something.

[formal depot]

An external gunshot should include a low-pass filter to muffle it

From experience, I'd try mixing:

• low pass
• high pass
• reverb

Just a little low pass to model how some of the low-frequency "thump" gets blocked

Reverb with a low dry and high wet mix will sound very very distant

consider Audition's "Outside Club" preset

notice the very aggressive low and high frequency cuts

along with literally no dry mix

[quick topaz]

whats a tool that folks would recommend for browsing through a large collection of audio files for sound FX?

programs like windows media player or VLC seem to break when trying to load large quantities of very short files, they try and play through it like a playlist, whereas I want something where I can flip through and just like, load an entire folder of files and click em to play/hear em once.

[quasi hound]

I don't know if if it's the best but foobar2000 has worked excellently for me in that role
Its file library and search functions especially are incredibly quick and effective for browsing through sound libraries
I've got nearly 40 000 items in there and it can search through them pretty much instantly
Waveform seekbar addon is priceless for both previewing and examining the audio files

Don't know if there's a one-click play option but I often use arrow keys and enter to preview them to reduce the amount of clicking

[whole meteor]

I want that if I press a button that it plays a sound. But I become this error: Cannot play a disabled audio source
My button has a AudioSource-Component and I have a ButtonSound-Script with this code:
public AudioSource audio;

public void playButton()
{
    audio.Play();
}

[kind pendant]

Hi, do you know if AudioSource.PlayOneShot is supposed toignore selected Mixer? I have a mixer with a volume slider, but when I PlayOneShot it goes to the master mixer group ( I might be mismatching names here)
This is what my mixer looks like

I can change the SFX & MUSIC volumes independently, music is played by setting the audioclip and Play(), for SFX i use PlayOneShot to have multiple ones at the same time, am I missing something?

[tribal tangle]

i got this script that lets me record and play audio through my microphone but it is shows microphone not connected and i have no clue why? https://gdl.space/onomixevak.cs

[desert ice]

As long as your audio source is routed to the correct mixer, the PlayOneShot will go through that mixer. If the audio source you're using to play the one shot isn't connected to a specific mixer channel, it will go through the master channel by default

[kind pendant]

Ok, actually some sounds went through another audiosource which was not linked to the mixer, ty

[marsh rivet]

is it me or are the sound priority completely broken in Unity 2022.3 LTS ?

I have a sound track with a priority of 0 often cut-off by other sounds with priority set to 200+

[wise dagger]

If you guys are into audio on Unity, we actually created a plug-in that will allow you to have an entire voice studio inside of Unity for characters that you want to have dialog. Check it out> https://bit.ly/44uzzru

[lusty tide]

hey guys I'm having problem with audio source, the audio just dosent play. I'm using unity 22.3.3f1 lts. ps: its not muted, sometimes the audio clips when focusing the windows. Using 21.3 works fine

[hallow tulip]

Realised I was in the wrong channel so

Anybody got any suggestions? Importing audio allows me to preview it fine but the audio source is completely silent. When I screenshare however my friend can hear it fine but not me
If he screenshares his screenshare I can hear it

Other audio sources are working fine

The audio plays for a split second when I stop playing

[desert ice]

cool stuff. Probably gonna try that out soon

[desert ice]

I know this might be obvious, but there's a check in the Unity Audio settings that says "Disable Unity Audio". I've had to uncheck it when I changed from 21 to 22, which was weird why they would have it checked by default.

[desert ice]

does this happen when you're screensharing via Zoom or something?

[hallow tulip]

Nope it was through Discord. My issue was that Oculus seemed to be making audio go through the headset despite the fact the headset wasn't selected

[desert ice]

Discord has some things with sharing sound, drives me mad as well. If you haven't yet, select "hear VR audio from computer" and share the exact screen that has the sound.

Or just change the output from the headset to windows settings

[lusty tide]

its was the audio listener 😅😅

[hidden gulch]

Hello everyone !
I am working on my first game, adding music and sound effects to it.
I grabbed some open sound effects from different sources, and they do not have all the same volume. there are even some sound effects where I would like to change the pitch, or to "cut" so it begins faster or ends.
What (free) software could handle that ?
(I know I could handle the volume and pitch changes in unity, but I would like to "normalize" all my sounds effects because I use them through some scripts)

[quasi hound]

Audacity, for example

[hidden gulch]

Thanks, I'll try it ! 🙂

[bronze anvil]

i have an issue where absolutely no audio is playing. not even in the preview, when looking at an editor, and when i press the toggle audio button on the top bar, it toggles off every time i start the scene.

[quasi hound]

Does the problem persist even in a new project?

[bronze anvil]

no

i hear sounds fine in a new project...

[quasi hound]

Hmm same editor I assume?
Does the problem occur in a specific scene or all of them in the first project

[bronze anvil]

all of them

[daring sierra]

Hello everyone! I just added my first sound effects but I have a small issue (fairly new to unity / programming) - I have a short sound effects for movement and I use GetKeyDown to trigger it. The issue is that as long the key is pressed the sound effect is starting over each frame basically. Any idea how I can trigger the sound on key is pressed and let it play normaly and stop the sound when the key is released?

[languid nest]

Can someone help me with the sounds?

The sounds that I bring are not working, it is in .fsb

[quasi hound]

Fsb files are not meant to be edited or accessed by users
It's a "built" format and encrypted no less

[desert ice]

might want to check your audio listener since Fernando a couple of questions above had a similar issue.

[desert ice]

so if you want the sound to only play once, you can add a check if the sound has played - a private bool hasPlayed = false, and then add an if statement something like this:

void PlaySoundWhenKeyPressed()
{
   if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && !hasPlayed)
    {
      yourAudioSource.PlayOneShot(yourAudioClip, volume)
      hasPlayed = true;
    }
}```

and then edit this accordingly when you release the key

this should work in theory, if you don't want the sound to repeat over every frame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXiVKPfNK1U&ab_channel=2KMIXEDIT

[urban scarab]

i got a problem where when it plays the audio it only plays a sec of it stops than randomly plays it again, but distorted

is it because i play it cont. in update?

[lyric root]

hahaha

what behaviour do you even expect, playing it in update?

[urban scarab]

like it sometimes plays

but a distorted and fast sound of the sound i got

but randomly plays

and fast

very fast

like a distortion

[lyric root]

give your code

and pin me

@urban scarab

[urban scarab]

@lyric root

public class SoundHandler : MonoBehaviour
 {

    public AudioSource src;

    public AudioSource srcAtck;

    public AudioClip[] sfx = new AudioClip[10];

    public Player player;

    //src.clip = sfx; src.Play();


    public void soundUpdate()
    {
        switch(player.state)
        {
            case Player.movementState.idle:
                src.clip = sfx[0];
                break;
            case Player.movementState.walking:
                src.clip = sfx[1];
                break;
            case Player.movementState.sprinting:
                src.clip = sfx[2];
                break;
            case Player.movementState.air:
                src.clip = sfx[3];
                break;
            case Player.movementState.crouching:
                src.clip = sfx[4];
                break;
            case Player.movementState.dash:
                src.clip = sfx[5];
                break;
            case Player.movementState.sliding:
                src.clip = sfx[6];
                break;
           
        }

      //  srcAtck.Play();

        src.Play();
    }

[lyric root]

isn't it done in update?

[lyric root]

this method isn't even called in this script

[urban scarab]

i call the update somewhere else

no need to show u it, it's just a main script that handles updates

@lyric root

[lyric root]

no issue at all

[lyric root]

in this script

[urban scarab]

do i have to change something in the audioSoruce

in like

that graph?

@lyric root

[lyric root]

gimme all scripts

[urban scarab]

tere is a single script

@lyric root still

if i don't have it on loop

or if i play constantly

it should act like the animation

play the sound, end it

and then if is with loop, loop it again

it shouldn't have this behaivour, should it?

[lyric root]

single script, really? how do you call that method then?

[urban scarab]

is just that

in update

and YES

it calls it

i tested

[lyric root]

wait, are you asking why it changes constantly?

@urban scarab

[urban scarab]

?

it's the same audio

but it gets distorted

and fast

and only happens sometimes

[lyric root]

gimme recording maybe?

[lyric root]

what's that?

[urban scarab]

the rec

i am using

[lyric root]

recording of your issue

[urban scarab]

the recording

it should play

[lyric root]

screen recording

[urban scarab]

i will

@lyric root i will tag again after im done rec

[urban scarab]

@lyric root look

i am going insane

what is wrong with this sound

[desert ice]

so what I'm understanding is that you're telling the audio source to play when a specific player movement happens, and then you're also telling it to loop. That might be part of the reason why it's distorted because it's playing on top of each other since whenever you tell it to play (which is every time a player movement happens), you're also looping it. Is that right?

[urban scarab]

yes, you truly understand

how can i solve this?

[desert ice]

don't loop it I suppose

because in practicality you're already looping it in a way, since the audio source is played everytime a particular player movement happens

[urban scarab]

same result....

[desert ice]

unless you want it to serve a specific purpose?

[desert ice]

I see.

[urban scarab]

yes that's what i want and only want

[desert ice]

yeah so keep the loop unchecked for now at least

I'm not sure if this would fix this, but for SFX I've always used PlayOneShot() if it's a sound that is repeatedly called. Might wanna try that out and see if that works. Although you possibly will have to add a check like a private bool hasPlayed (like I've mentioned above before your question) to make sure the clip doesn't keep repeating.

Also before you do that, try turning off Play on Awake

Since that is also a call that will always happen when you start the scene

and call for the audio source to Play

[urban scarab]

@desert ice you mean

constantly using .Play

will basically restart the sound

every time

I have been asking this question for hours

[desert ice]

So will PlayOneShot(), but since you need the source to play every time something happens, I don't think your code is "wrong", per se.

[urban scarab]

bro

[desert ice]

And you're using a three second clip for a walking sound, is that correct?

[urban scarab]

yes or no

[urban scarab]

yes

literally if this:

[urban scarab]

this.

is the issue

[desert ice]

I'd rather use a one second clip of just one walking sound, like one step.

[urban scarab]

i know how to fix

so is it the truth?

i REPLAYS

it doesn't let it end

every time i do .Play?

[desert ice]

Yes, everytime you use Play or PlayOneShot, it always plays from the beginning. I assumed you knew and thought your issue was something else.

[urban scarab]

i did not

this was the first thing i asked here

@desert ice thank you chirst of heaven

@desert ice i solved it.

[desert ice]

Awesome!

[lyric root]

I haven't been online for a while, but nice that you have solved it

[proper tree]

hello all. so my issue, I have a microphone input sound source that i want to always be muted. problem is, it has to also drive shape keys for facial animations. while it does work, it seems like microphone detection is very low. i have to have the mic very close to my face to drive the shape keys correctly. i want to know if there is a way to amplify the sound coming out of the game? my volume level is at 1.0 and i have a mixer setup at -80db. it mutes the sound like i said, but barely drives the shape keys. i simply want to amplify the microphone input to the game before it hits the listener i guess.

[feral geyser]

Hi all. A simple question but not sure where it should go
It's for an audiovisual related equalizer thingy

    {
        float val = newVal;
        if (newVal > prev)
        {
            //val = Mathf.Lerp(prev, newVal, attack);
            val = Mathf.MoveTowards(prev, newVal, attack);
        }
        else
        {
            //val = Mathf.Lerp(prev, newVal, decay);
            val = Mathf.MoveTowards(prev, newVal, decay);
        }
        return val;
    }```

For a "update value" with dampen, should the Attack/Decay be applied with Lerp or MoveTowards?
The thing with MoveTowards is, it's only in effect if the change of value is higher than the dampen
I tried both and while the Lerp is more smooth/the effect is seen for any new value, i feel the MoveTowards is more correct?

[desert ice]

This video might be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzD0qP8viLw&ab_channel=ValemTutorials

Around 7:30 he speaks about using a loudness scalar which you might need since you have signal detection setup, but it's just not enough. You can also use a compressor with I'm thinking a low threshold and have the make-up gain just enough so it works for you. That will boost the signal just like a limiter plugin but it also may clip the signal if you go overboard, as far as I know.

[proper tree]

so, ive managed to get my "voice" audio source to use mic input, redirected thru main mixer set at -80db. i have the mic group set at 0 with a slider to change it. its working as intended so far, but i totally appreciate the input. I actually used that exact video to get microphone recognition working.

my second audio source object(main camera) that also has a listener on it.

[desert ice]

nice. Never can go wrong with a Valem tutorial.

wait so are you still having the issue?

[desert ice]

Imo, I think it depends on what you want the outcome to be. Both seem to be correct, although in signal processing it's usually an interpolated value (lerp) when for example, using a "dry/wet" knob on a reverb plugin or a filter plugin. MoveTowards works well in your case, so it's perfectly fine.

[proper tree]

somehwat yes

[desert ice]

Then Unity's stock compressor should do it I suppose. I haven't dived deep into audio plugins for Unity yet, but I'm sure there must be a "saturator" or perhaps a better compressor plugin.

[lethal river]

is this where i'd ask questions about wwise

[quasi hound]

You can
They may have their own community spaces somewhere as well

[lethal river]

couldn't find a discord unfortunately

anyways

I have paths that depend on several states but none of them work except the default ones

Does the track state need an event to work?

[quasi hound]

https://www.audiokinetic.com/qa/ they have this apparently, but it's quite barren

[lethal river]

oh yeah i found that and noticed the same thing lol

anyways i could easily just brute force it and make states for every rank and track, but i don't want to do that if i don't have to

[desert ice]

https://www.theaudioprogrammer.com/discord

[lethal river]

do i need to sign up for the website to get the discord link?

[desert ice]

Yeah

Or wait

I'll just DM you the discord invite

mb lol

Just sent the invite in your DM

[autumn island]

When making pool. How can I make sure that collision sounds dont overlap each other? And are only played when neccessary?

[hidden gulch]

Hello everyone !
I have a question about having multiple sounds at once :
In my game, I have a sound that is a goblin dying. I put a script in my goblin's prefab so that it creates a special prefab with an audiosource when they die, which will play the sound, with some randomness added (a 0 to 0.3s delay before playing the sound and a 0.7 to 1.3 pitch on the sound).
When my player kills one goblin every second, everything goes well : the sounds feel varied and play correctly.
When my player casts a big spell which kills 20 goblins at once, it feels like I can only hear the sound of one goblin dying.
I tried pausing the game when the 20 goblins die to check, and I do have my 20 audiosources instantiated (with the nice little speaker icons visible in the unity editor scene window).
Are there some settings hidden somewhere that limit the number of audio sources at the same time ? (I looked around in the audio mixer and couldn't find).
I think I remember reading that there is a total limit at 20-30, but I am far from that (1 background music, 2-5 spellcasting sounds, 2-3 goblin death sound at once).
Here is the script attached to the audiosource prefab instantiated on the death of the goblin, if it can help.

void Start() {
        AudioSource audioSource = this.GetComponent<AudioSource>();
        audioSource.clip = sound;
        float pitch = Random.Range(minPitch, maxPitch);
        audioSource.pitch = pitch;
        float delay = Random.Range(minDelay, maxDelay);
        audioSource.priority = priority;
        audioSource.volume = volume;
        audioSource.PlayDelayed(delay);
        destroyTimer = sound.length/pitch + delay;
    }```

I checked out something by changing the audiosource priority of the goblin death sound. It looks like it does come, at least in part, from there :
there are more audiosources that I though, because of multiple sounds having a long fade out.
I am going to modify a few of them so I have less of this problem, and am also looking for another solution of this problem :
Is there a way to limit the number of audio sources PER Audiomixer Group (and not just in total) ?

[proper tree]

Is there a way to reroute game audio output within game? Like in an options menu I could have a drop-down that lets me select either speakers, or headset, or etc.

[desert ice]

Might wanna check under Project Settings > Audio > Max Real Voices

[desert ice]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-can-i-change-the-sound-output-device.1429936/#:~:text=Unity always outputs to the,system like FMOD or Wwise.

[proper tree]

Thanks. I am trying to avoid FMOD because it's to much of a learning curve ATM. And wwise eludes me. I was trying to use a library called NAudio. I actually had this working before and borked it somehow

[desert ice]

Oh yes, NAudio. I've had a few of my friends get compilation errors with it while they tried using it in Unity. One of them got it working somehow by using an older version (1.6 or 7 or something) but she decided to use FMOD instead.

I'm sure it's still a good option, I know the Devs have been active in the last year at least. Or there are stack overflow answers for getting it to work

[proper tree]

Now that you say that, I think I did use an older version.

[desert ice]

And I just found a stack overflow answer that says using 1.8 will work in newer versions of Unity lol.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74201950/how-to-use-naudio-in-unity

Nice

[proper tree]

I was trying to use 2.0 this time around. Last time I think I used 1.10

Thanks @desert ice

[desert ice]

That's good to know. I'll keep that in mind should I need to use it as well. Thanks for your question too!

[proper tree]

I will 100% report back tomorrow when I try them all! 🤣

What's funny is, I searched the web for answers for hours and you searched for 3 mins🤣

[desert ice]

hahah I just searched NAudio Unity, since you already mentioned it

[night breach]

The variable bgsound of DeadScript has not been assigned.

[proper tree]

So for anyone wondering, my problem was not in the actual audio, but in a script that was "amplifying" audio to drive facial shape keys. I had to find the correct value in the script, and create an int variable that would multiply that by whatever. (3) I then made a slider that connected to that value for testing. Working as intended and driving shape keys more now. Basically, this boosted the sensitivity of the microphone driving the keys.

[fast jay]

Is there any way to get background music for my 2d game for free

[wise dagger]

Hey guys, we created a plug-in for Unity that allows you to make it easier to implement voice dialogs and sounds into your Unity Project: https://github.com/charactr-platform/charactr-api-sdk-unity

Here is a video showcasing how to install it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujTP-TwOd94

Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

[proper tree]

@desert ice welp, i still cant get any version of NAudio to work at all

[sturdy sandal]

Hey, I was wondering if there is anyone here who could help me identify how to get my sound effect sounding a certain way. I'm sharing my sample vs the target sound I'm trying to achieve. Perhaps there is some effect or thing I could apply to it to get the desired result?

[sturdy sandal]

I am aware that the target sample fades out, but I'm more trying to focus on the sound itself

[desert ice]

try a low pass and cut around 10-15k or less as per your preference

[desert ice]

sheesh. What seems to be the problem while installing?

[proper tree]

I actually found a "unity" NAudio GitHub. Two infact. Neither of which will do what I am trying to do. I am trying to make a drop-down for audio output selection. I've done this before using NAudio but just don't remember how.

I had to drop the DLL into my plugins, then I had to add all the folders included with it. NAudio DLL and files are good. It's my method to fill the drop-down and actually switch outputs that's getting me

[proper tree]

update.. so may functions for NAudio are not available for unity. i managed to get DirectSound to recognize my available outputs and fill the dropdown.

[proper tree]

however, now it seems there is no logical way to just change the output device of my unity game audio

[sturdy sandal]

thanks, i will

[maiden quarry]

I am looking for a sound designer for the three hour game jam to collaborate with me in the next 48 hours!

Let me know if you are free and up for it.

[quasi hound]

!collab

[karmic bone]

📢 Collaborating and Job Posting

We do not accept job or collab posts on discord.
Please use the forums:
• Commercial Job Seeking
• Commercial Job Offering
• Non Commercial Collaboration

[maiden quarry]

ok thanks

[jovial raven]

Yoo, I have a game with sound effects playing at random times depending on the situation. Think of it like a bullet hell type of game. I am wondering if there is a correct way to play lots of short clips without "sound clipping" happening. my first intuition is to have multiple sources and have them queued up but I really am supper uneducated in this area of field. can anyone help me find a solution?

[whole cloud]

Check this out:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AudioMixer.html
Then this:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-AudioNormalizeEffect.html

Let me know if those don't help after playing around. To be clear, the issue is that so many sounds play at once it just gets too loud, right?
I feel like if you queue them up, they will play longer than they should and that would be a whole other issue on its own

[jovial raven]

so this was helpful for other reasons but i'm not worried about level. rather one audio clip canceling another audio clip when it starts playing

[whole cloud]

so, clipping is when the amplitude of the sounds are too loud and.. the waveform is "clipped" off, into a flattened portion, causing distortion. Which is why I assumed it was about volume
Very basically.

Are you talking about there being too many sounds and unity ends some because of the limits of concurrent sounds?

What do you mean by canceling out?

[jovial raven]

yes, too many concurrent sounds. like take an SFX channel for "example" hypothetical. the audio clips are 1 second in duration but i am constantly playing them twice a second.

so when one clip is half way through playing and then another clip starts of the same effect it clipped the original sound and restarts it. i do not want this. i want the clips to overlap

when i say "clips" i mean audio file / audio sound

@whole cloud am i making sense ?

[whole cloud]

That IS an issue.
I've seen people deal with that by keeping a count of the current number of playing sounds, and preventing any new sounds after the 20 allowed, until the sounds die out
Or faking it by having looped sounds that approximate a bunch of whatever you need (if it's bullet hell, then the bullet sounds). Meaning, rather than each individual bullet having a sound, you would have single sound that plays for longer and sounds like a bunch of them.
Or have a SFXManager and call RequestSound, and if that SPECIFIC sound has been played too recently, don't fulfill the request.

It's gonna be up to your needs

Btw, Clips is correct, but I would use chopped instead of clipped in terms of ending it prematurely, just for future clarities sake. Clipped is a specific and known term that means what I mentioned earlier, and it will cause the same confusion it caused me

[jovial raven]

ok thank you

[whole cloud]

No prob!

[whole cloud]

This message is talking about it being too loud, but prioritizing is also a viable option, or even something to use in conjunction with my suggestions
#🔊┃audio message

[jovial raven]

i think i will need to create multiple channels for each weapon...

i have to do some thinking on it @whole cloud my situation is a little more complicated

your help has been great though, they have set me on the right track

[night breach]

Hey

I have a problem with fmod

i never used it it's my SD who is using it

please help me

[autumn ember]

I have trouble setting up the DryWetMIDI plugin, trying to make it work reading midi files and connetcing it to the BarScript "that moves the objects when piano is playing"

created this script but ain't working https://hastebin.com/share/xuwoyekabe.csharp

any suggestions?

[wet flame]

Hey 🙂 so i implemented audio spheres with Audio Room (assett https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/audio/ambient/audioroom-184013 ) . i wanted to know if theres a way to make the audio start from the beginning every time i enter
currently it starts at the beginning when i enter first time and then when i leave and come back its like it kept playing but i would like it to start from the beginning again

[cunning wadi]

just stop the audio when you leave. 😕

[wet flame]

but how.. i got AudioRooms as an assett recommended here so i figuered some people might know how it works 🙂

[cunning wadi]

not really sure what that is

[wet flame]

then why do you reply...?

[cunning wadi]

I thought you created audio rooms.

rooms with audio

audio playing in rooms

with your own colliders

playing your audio

in rooms

[wet flame]

ok will change the question to make it clearer

[cunning wadi]

Ohhhh. My bad. Just saw you post above after I scrolled up. Browser window wasn't big enough

[wet flame]

i edited it cause of your feedback of my post not being clear enough, no worries

[dark comet]

can unity use .ogg files for audio?

[cold otter]

dunno, but u can convert it to mp3 using an online converter

[dark comet]

What types of audio file extensions does it take?

[cold otter]

the only file type that i tested was a mp3 file

and it worked

oh wait unity does support ogg

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/working-with-audio-components-2019-3

[short pilot]

How would I call an event or a function at certain parts of the audio? I'm trying to make it so that matching the attacks with tempo would deal more.

ping me if someone replies and thx in advance

[desert ice]

Although I haven't used it personally, you can use the audio spectrum data in unity (audioSource.GetSpectrumData()) and basically use the spectrum to check certain parts of the audio, for example a kick drum in any song would ideally have a higher amplitude so you can have amplitude as the check that if the attack falls on the exact time as the part of the audio with higher amplitude, deal more damage. @short pilot

[desert ice]

you can also use OnFilterAudioRead, but idk much about using that

[desert ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource.GetSpectrumData.html

You can apply something called an "FFT Window" which basically breaks up the audio spectrum into chunks, and gives you accurate representations of frequencies in the audio spectrum and what the audio is made up of. You can apply that and you'd have finer resolution in your attempt at matching certain parts of your audio.

[junior dust]

anyone got tool recommendation for sound effects? Ive been using vital to make actual sound effect and audacity for final cuts but looks like vital is for music lmfao I want good samples with minimal effort to transform that into final sound like pew pew or boom boom

[plucky dawn]

would someone be able to help me get my audio to work, the clips are fine my game isnt muted the volume is max, the clip is supposed to be playing (with code i debugged it). I have my audiolistener on my cinemachine virtual cam. Does anyone have experience troubleshooting audio. This is my first time adding it to this project so I assume its something Ive forgotten to set up.

[light compass]

unity autoadds a fade in to my imported audio, how do i turn this off

[plucky dawn]

Im pretty sure unity doesnt do that, it could be the way you cut the clips

[light compass]

i cut it specifically so that it didn't have a fade in

can i trim in unity?

[plucky dawn]

not without plugins afaik

[plucky dawn]

figured it out, but I have to vent. Why is Unity Audio disabled by default in Project Settings? Almost every single game ever made has audio why would they default it to no audio.....

[stuck frost]

i dont know how to use a song in my unity game

im making a unity game and idk how to credit/credit properly a song in my game.
idk what to do

[quasi hound]

Usually you credit authors and their work in a credits screen in game as well as credits page online where you release
The licence of a song (or any asset) has terms for how you must use and credit it

A licence does not have to require crediting but most do
If there is no licence, you can't use it without explicit permission

[stuck frost]

like something like this

Provided to YouTube by DistroKid

Forgotten · Trxxshed · Lomtre

but where do i find the licence

[eager phoenix]

If there is no license you'll have to ask for a permission from the artist

[stuck frost]

how do i see the but licence or where can i find it?

[quasi hound]

Best I can tell in this case DistroKid is a record label who owns the rights to distribute the song
You'd have to contact them
and prepare to pay pretty penny

Songs like these are commercial products, you can't simply use them in your own products

[stuck frost]

oh thx

[hybrid apex]

is there a tool in unity that I can use to make my own sounds?

[quasi hound]

No

Unless you code in one
But that isn't easy from what I hear

[wary haven]

C64 styled music.

[hasty stirrup]

banger

[sullen needle]

Hello, I am developing a game where the Player'll be able to import new music tracks and files into the game. Is this possible with FMOD? Creating banks at runtime in builds?

Or do I need to use standard Unity audio system?

[frail ice]

Guys, how do i make ambient sounds. I can't find anything online, no matter what i search, no sound design tutorials, nothing. As if ambient sounds didnt exsist, but yet they are in every game. And i mean like futuristic synth sounds, i know i could just go outside and record some birds.

Here are a few examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41vfljspZkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uavHpiDtdpw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7-ZS-XPB3w

[quasi hound]

I don't think there is any particular technique for making them
They are field recordings, sound effects and synths mixed, layered and sometimes filtered

[frail ice]

Theres gotta be something

[quasi hound]

It's an interesting topic so link me if you find something

[desert ice]

https://cymatics.fm/collections/anniversary-freebies/products/life-ambient-recordings @frail ice if this has the stuff you need

[desert ice]

If you want make ambient sounds, you can make them in a DAW but not in Unity if that's what you meant

[frail ice]

Thats not what i meant, i was just looking for resources.

[stuck frost]

whats this

[desert ice]

specifically for futuristic/dystopian ambience you can search for Sci-fi ambience or FX

Found this if it helps: https://soundimage.org/sfx-scifi-amb/

https://samplefocus.com/samples/sci-fi-ambience

[frail ice]

So would you recommend just taking wind sound effects and just putting modular synths and sound effects on there?

[quasi hound]

If that's what you want
"Ambience" can mean quite literally anything

[frail ice]

Im talking about the synth/futuristic ambience mixed with wind and ambient stuff

[desert ice]

Tbh you could put a fart pitched down to something like 800-1000 cents and make it stretched and you have a drone sounding "synth", so it's literally make-it-anything you want

[frail ice]

Im also talking about how to get that ambient feeling. The sounds should feel like they are coming from the Environment from the Buildings and not just like music

[desert ice]

So basically, yeah, if it sounds good, it sounds good

[desert ice]

So you can take some building noises, like a washing machine, dryer, AC, some TV noise, etc etc and mix it with a synth drone or a synth pad

Some electronic sounding noises or the like

[frail ice]

Alright then, ill try that. Thanks for the help, i really appreciate that.

[desert ice]

Yeah for sure. Lemme know how it turns out, would love to have a listen!

In fact, the videos you sent are excellent references.

Alyx has incredible sound design

[quasi hound]

Sounds' "distant" or "environmental" feel usually comes from a stereo effect, echo and/or some filtering

Reverb I mean rather than echo

[turbid hound]

ok so ive been stuck on this for like an hour i even went to chat cgpt but no help and i dont understand why the only context i got is one image but no audio will play in my game its at -75.2db i dont know what else to take photos of as well i dont know why its happening
Image

[stuck frost]

What is this and how do I fix it?

[native flower]

Can someone help me find websites / software that can help me create sfx for my game

[silk obsidian]

There are resources pinned to this channel

[native flower]

Ok thank you

[frail ice]

I've been working on this for about half an hour now:

[stuck frost]

-Title to search for other discord users:
Audio Takes Much Memory

-Problem
For instance, i added an AudioClip that costs 84MB.
Loaded via Addressables system and i see it grow up from 150 MB to 700-800MB's

-Description
Hello. I am using Addressables system to load an audio. I searched a little bit but i didnt seem found a proper fix or because i am lazy to read many text lmao. But i will try them just right now.
I tested AudioClip LoadType to "Stream" Actually fixes the memory problem.

-Solution
Well, it seems i found my solution. Thanks to this article:
https://blog.theknightsofunity.com/wrong-import-settings-killing-unity-game-part-2/

[mortal glen]

Hey there! If you ever need free soundtracks & SFX, please feel free to download them from my itch.io page. I have 4 packs and 3 days ago I released my first pack. containing 115 min of audio, 30 tracks, 30 amibiences and 15 soundscapes. Here is the link to the pack: https://hzsmith.itch.io/free-epic-fantasy-forest-music-pack

[whole pewter]

seems AI generated, incl. images backgrounds

[desert ice]

This is beautiful yet haunting. Proper dystopian. Love it!

[fathom pendant]

electric arcs ambience or somethin

[mortal glen]

The images are AI generated. The music is original hand crafted composition. How could AI generate something like that lol? Pretty shitty from you to say that after the ammount of work put into creating that. Literally offensive stuff. You do that will all your competition?

[whole pewter]

the amount of various AI tools capable of generating unique tracks/stems are getting to be aplenty nowadays
(e.g.
https://www.loudly.com/music/ai-music-generator
https://openai.com/research/jukebox
https://www.veed.io/tools/ai-music-generator
https://soundraw.io/
)
which the slightly 'can't put exactly my finger on it' character of your music resembles to - at least to me - and it's not hard to do bit of arranging afterwards

pretty strange you lash out immediately like this after mentioning AI heh

word of advice:
i you used AI tools to generate the tracks I recommend disclosing the fact on the page, and
you seem to be licensing them under CC BY-SA 4.0, which might be more problematic, since I really doubt the tools allow their generated content to be resold without more pricey licensing tiers, if at all

but if you have everything legally covered then you can safely ignore literally everything i wrote above can't you

[whole pewter]

and no you don't have to be explaining all your creative process, tools and ways here, put it rather on the page

[mortal glen]

You just dont seem to understand that the music created didnt involved any AI tools.

Of course I lash out imediately after mengioning AI. I was working like a mulle for more than 2 months, daily, to compose, arrange, produce, mix & master every instrument track you hear there, just to have some rando on the internet claim that is AI generated lol.

[whole pewter]

careful with the insults here, they won't take you far

[mortal glen]

Insults?

[whole pewter]

and you give it away for free ? bit weird but whatever

[mortal glen]

Yes! I give it away for free lol. Some of us do this kind of work as well. Jesus.

[whole pewter]

hey mate i wrote what i wrote above you can either take it to your heart or ignore it;

i - personally - don't particularly care either way ; hope it's clear
your ~rando; cheeers i won't be responsing about this more

[mortal glen]

Not everyone on the internet looks to rip you off. Im sorry about your past experiences with shitty people and AI generated stuff that got you this paranoid. If you cant enjoy something carefully crafted, with soul and sweat, gave away for free, just so people can enjoy it and use it in any commercial purposes, then please, keep yourself from making hate and harmfull coments, since everything you said above is not true and you just assume things based on your personal experience. Dont ruin this for everyone if you had some bad history with AI stuff, since not every1 on the internet is trying to push AI generated stuff online and claim its yours. 😄 If you ever come to reason and get over your paranoia, I would be more than glad to show and teach you how to start creating music and what orchestras i used and VSTs and plugins and show you the music sheets as well (even teach you how to read them, if you skipped that part). Open your heart and have faith that some of us, still do this the right way.

[mortal glen]

I will always take feedback on my music to heart. Especially when some1 claims its not my music or its computer generated, after all the hard and long hours Ive put into creating this. Im always up for critique from more experienced musicians, of course! But I will never ignore some1 who claims the music i create is not original/created by someone else/created by computers/ai.

[whole pewter]

i guess you could share ableton project or smh but don't bother; stems/rhythm sections can be always generated and there's no definitive way to prove it
music is easier to fake, it will get worse w/ 3d models over time
i wrote the above not just for you, it is a semi-public forum

[mortal glen]

I work in Native Instruments Maschine 2, not in Ableton. I use only NI ecosystem instruments, VSTs and Hardware.

Anyhow, you keep up to your paranoid fake music and advocate that every1 is trying to rip you off! Sure!

[whole pewter]

🤷‍♂️

[stuck frost]

bro it sounds like bees

[fathom pendant]

YOU GAVE ME AN IDEA FOR ELECTRIC BEES

[versed snow]

I'm using an audio mixer for the first time in order to pitch shift audio that has been sped up so it sounds normal. That's all working fine. I have an array of clips and I set the clip for the audiosource based on a selected clip. After that clip has played, you can select another clip and play that. Without the mixer, this works great. With the mixer, the 2nd and subsequent plays play a bit of the previous clip first. At the end of each clip I do a Stop() and at the start I set .clip = null then set .clip to the next clip. If I remove the mixer from the audiosource, it works, if I add it, it plays a bit of the previous clip. I'm not using the mixer for all audiosources, I have audiosources all over the place for buttons and whatnot. I feel like I must be missing something obvious. I've looked for a way to "reset" the mixer to no avail. Any clues/ideas/suggestions very welcome.

hmm, I wonder if I'm posting in the right channel, should this be in code-general or something? Haven't really posted on this server much before.

[static pecan]

https://youtu.be/qktWaClTSX0

Original Composer - Yoko Shimomura
Cover made by: Peshtiwar Botani
Track: Street Fighter - Ken's Theme
Here's my reimagination of how Ken's Theme can sound in an orchestral environment, I don't think this cover is perfect but I do feel like this is a lot better than my other Ken's Theme ochestral attempt.
I can't wait to share more of my journey here.
Take this for a spin!

[desert ice]

did you fix it?

[versed snow]

Not really. I did find that if I call audiosettings.reset it gets rid of the artifact, but apparently it also reloads all of my audio tracks and I have 30 of them, so it is slow. So then I set them to not preload which means I have to load them before playing them. I've got it to the point where there's no audio artifact, but the game hangs for 1-2 seconds. I've traded one pain for another. I thought about seeing if I could get rid of the hang with a coroutine or something, but I'm temporarily focused on other things right now to let my head heal from banging it against the wall 🙂 That said, if you have any suggestions/ideas/potential leads I'm all ears. And thanks for asking in any case 🙂

[desert ice]

yeah I am wondering what the exact issue might be, because the project I'm working on right now has tons of audio clip arrays that I've set to specific clips to play during certain events.

How are you using the pitch shift effect through the audio mixer? I have a pitch shift effect setup through the audio source. So in my case, I have a paddleboard and if the player is moving at a certain speed, I'm increasing the pitch of the river water sound depending on the speed.

[versed snow]

Yeah, I have lots of audio clips as well and without the audio mixer, all is well. So, I'm doing 2 things at the same time. When you set the pitch higher on a clip, it increases the pitch by playing it faster. I am doing it to change the bpm of songs. If I have a 90 bpm song and I make the pitch higher it changes the song to for instance 120 bpm. I want the music faster but the pitch the same. So I use the audio mixer to pitch shift it back down. So the end result is the pitch is the same but it players faster. It is for instance what audible.com does if you set an audio book to play at 1.5 speed. They speed it up and then pitch shift it back down.

I know it sounds like the end result should be no change, but it really does speed it up and keep the pitch the same.

[desert ice]

that is actually quite smart tbh

is there a way for you to check if changing the pitch of the audio source or if changing the pitch in the audio mixer is misbehaving/causing the error?

like manually operating the playing of the clips so you can check?

[versed snow]

Yeah, the clips themselves are fine. And if I don't use the audiomixer, everything is fine.

If I just change the pitch of the clips, then that is also fine, but then it sounds like The Chipmunks 🙂

[desert ice]

what if you put a delay before starting the next audio clip? It is possible there is a delay in stopping the audio source, though I wouldn't exactly know how rn

[versed snow]

Well, it is a dance game and you pick a song, play it, then you might hang out for a bit and play another song.

[desert ice]

you just gave me an insane solution for shifting up the tempo without changing the pitch, so I'm really rooting for you to solve this issue lol

[versed snow]

Unless I call audiosettings.reset, no matter what I do I get the sound artifact at the start of the next song 😦

[desert ice]

so it's just straight up a piece of the previous clip

[versed snow]

yep

like some buffer that didn't clear out

[desert ice]

yeah that is exactly what I'm thinking, and a delay should really solve it (I hope)

like a play on delay

[versed snow]

I tried PlayDelayed, PlayScheduled, etc , no love

[desert ice]

damn

[versed snow]

I'm not playing the songs back to back either

Play it, hang out, play the next one. Unless I do audiosettings.reset, nothing seems to work

I have some other leads, but I've already tried so many things I feel like somebody else must have run into this and it is something I'll never guess

like, I haven't tried putting all sounds through the mixer. But I keep trying things that don't work so I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel.

[desert ice]

ah, programming, the ever spinning hamster wheel

[versed snow]

And I also thought of playing the next track on mute, then rewiding it. If that worked, it would work for the dance part because it takes a bit for the notes to get to you, but it wouldn't work for the preview 😦

[desert ice]

you don't have the play on awake for the source right?

or loop

[versed snow]

Nope

It is definitely a head scratcher

[desert ice]

there's definitely a loose screw in the signal processing chain

[versed snow]

Yeah. Starting to feel like a bug. But seems like somebody else would have run into it

[desert ice]

let me check online if I find anything

[versed snow]

I appreciate your support.

[desert ice]

so

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/204729/how-do-i-speed-up-slow-down-audio-without-changing-the-pitch-and-vice-versa

this is actually an audio signal processing problem

and this might be the perfect case for me to work on and talk to my professor about

he worked on Unity plugins and stuff

I am trying to find if somebody else made a similar approach as yours

changing the speed of the clip (increasing tempo/pitch) will obviously change the duration of the clip, but if you're telling it to Stop() and even clearing the audiosettings to reset, it should ideally clear the buffer and start from 0 again.

I'll try asking on one of the Audio Programmer discords

[desert ice]

Found a possible solution and appears on top of Google search and you might've possible looked this up, but is similar to yours. https://forum.unity.com/threads/change-speed-in-music-sound.502429/

[whole pewter]

verify how your clips swapping behaves when all pitch shifting +effects are removed i.e. new empty scene, two clips + audiosource pitch 1 + mixer pitch 1 (defaults), nothing else

[whole pewter]

not in general i guess - people tend to keep things as simple as possible - use mostly premade clips, possibly with as few effects as possible simple audio layer is not worth anybody's time

[remote iris]

anything to make this not take almost all my CPU for just paused audiosources? And no, I can't remove them. I'm making a game where having them here and now cached is pretty important.

[sharp ferry]

Why does it say source is null even though Im referencing it?

It just keeps saying null every time I try. You gotta click on the imgs to see them properly

[silk obsidian]

Use the context parameter or the debugger to figure out which object it's talking about, because it's likely not the one you're looking at

[sharp ferry]

ah, thanks. Apparently a script on a disabled gameobject is causing the error.

[versed snow]

As I mentioned above, everything is fine without the pitch swapping. I only recently added it and the problem showed up right away. If I remove the audio mixer everything is fine again. I'm not using any other effects. However, creating an empty scene with just this in it is a good idea. At the very least it creates a reproducible case.

[whole pewter]

As I mentioned above, everything is fine without the pitch swapping
eh must have missed that ( also clips swapping, not pitch swapping 🙂
but yes - creating clean repro will help either way

[alpine shard]

I have FPS project, there are multiple sounds like spade hit sound, weapon shooting sounds, fall damage, explosions etc. However my playtesters have mentioned that some sounds like spade hit sound are too high volume, relative to others (high volume click sort of)

My playtesters also said I could add audio slider but that won't fully fix the problem itself, unless sound slider for every single sound in game. What approaches are there to this problem or sound design in general in game dev?

[desert ice]

you can try disabling your audio sources during the times you're not using them

[remote iris]

ill try, thanks

[desert ice]

Another useful blog that might help: https://gamedevbeginner.com/unity-audio-optimisation-tips/#pause_audio_sources

#4 is about pausing unused audio sources, you can instead disable them.

Unless your purpose was to pause them and make them resume after you tell the audio source to (like pausing a music track and then resuming it from where you paused it)

[old ocean]

How can I know if my game is too loud or too quiet?
Everyone has different sound settings on their computers. Is there some kind of basis to which I can compare the volume of my game?

[quasi hound]

You can compare it to other well-mixed audio files, or examine the sound levels visually for example with windows audio mixer or by importing a recording into an audio editor to see its waveform

I believe you'll want to be using over half of the audio range without peaking at the top

[old ocean]

Does Unity's Audio Mixer give me the information I need?

I'm not sure if I'm understanding it's value axis correctly, so I don't know if I can judge based on it.

[quasi hound]

I think you can get the same effect with it by treating 0 dB as the ceiling, but I'm not 100% sure how they're different
I'm most used to looking at waveforms

[whole pewter]

you want to google 'audio normalization'

[whole pewter]

more or less; it's using normal dB scale so the metering is based on actual (audible) strength of the output and should be ~= similar to other hw/sw meters in the system

[old ocean]

Thanks 😄

[rare talon]

Has anyone experienced issues using Bluetooth headphones with a Unity app? Audio sources stop playing as soon as you connect headphones, that's fine. But even if audio sources are playing, after some time all audio will be lost and there is no way to recover it.

[stuck frost]

-Title to search for other discord users:
There is no MP3 selection in Audio Compression Format.

-Problem
There is no **MP3 ** in Audio Compression Format enum even tho platform is set to Android in Build Settings.

-Description
I am an idiot

-Solution
Lol you need to switch the tabs. Look a little bit up here and you will realize you are in tab "Default". Switch to Android and bammm you get the "MP3" option as well when you check "Override".

[silent tusk]

Hello, can someone recommend some tool (AI) for making sounds and music for my game please. I coudnt find anything useful for free

[quasi hound]

I looked and there were none
Guess you have no choice but to pay artists for their talent or learn it yourself

[silent tusk]

Do u have any chance how to make somehow sound of grenade normally?

Or maybe just wait then there will be some AI for this because it isnt so important to have sounds in game when I dont have even major mechanics done

[quasi hound]

Sound effects are usually created by mixing in sound recordings and synths along with filters

[quasi hound]

You know there are plenty of sound effects and libraries online that are free to use?

[silent tusk]

I know but I am not sure about licenses if I accidently would like to release my game

[quasi hound]

Almost every site that offers content also gives a simplified explanation of the license, especially if they're Creative Commons licenses which are created to be easy to understand
And also save the licenses along with the assets so you can verify them later

[silent tusk]

Ok thanks for help

[stuck frost]

Anyone knows why there is a "Crackling" sound when you pause, unpase and stop an Audio Source? **Of course i can do simple Fade In and Out / Mute and Unmute before Play/Stop/Pause/Unpause everyone knows that. ** but i dont want it. Its not what i want actually.

Here is the problem. I checked "Mono" to hear popping better. Its a MP3 file. But this popping thing happens with WAV too. Vorbis, PCM, ADPCM, Decompress, Compress... I tested all but this still happens. Even tho i set "DPS Buffer" to "Best" in Project Audio Settings.

I just pausing and unpasing in this video. Nothing more
Ive noticed this popping happens mostly on "Loud" parts but i dont know how will i solve. Ive tested the Audio Mixer Compressor thing. But i am not an expert i dont know how it works, but i can say its making my sound lower even you change the Attenuation. You know what, i think it works lmao but i dont want my sound to be in low volume.

This problem exists in Production Build too.

I searched a little bit more and this issue actually exists in Unity 2023 too lol**
Reference:** https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/audio-popping-is-heard-when-playing-back-a-sound-through-timeline-and-the-audio-playable-asset-has-loop-enabled

[quasi hound]

I think this is an effect you fundamentally get when hard stopping/starting an any audio signal without any kind of fading

Regardless of engine

[whole pewter]

yea; he's starting playback in the middle of non 0 data

[stuck frost]

Um how can i fix sir. AudioSource.time+x would work? i am confused as hell

[whole pewter]

i don't know man
if you really need to be starting playback in the middle of the audio you probably need to do fading as you wrote

[whole pewter]

i mean import the clip into audacity/any other random DAW and be pressing play/pause on it

[stuck frost]

Tested it mins ago and this popping noise also happening in Waveform 12.5 DAW. Thank you for helping me. After some investigating, now i understand why they use Crossfade when Pausing and Unpausing clearly.

[stuck needle]

Is there a mater audio simulator that also does env raytracing? I have about 5 cores sitting idle and looking to use them for something awesome