[FEATURE REQUEST] Play multiple tracks at the same time synced

[niom]

What I would like to do is to have my background music split in to multiple tracks and then play the tracks in sync. Each track should have an ability to fade in or out or just tune down. Kind like mixing the tracks on the fly together during the game play.

For example when a track with a hard bass beat could be toned down when you open a menu or if you want to pace your game for more easier phase and then tune the hard bass beat back when the combat starts.

Does something like this make sense?

I also feel that this is a quite a major feature.

[man572142]

Thank you for your idea!
Yes, it makes perfect sense, and in fact, that's one of the main reasons people use audio middlewares like FMOD and Wwise. Both provide this kind of "Interactive Music" feature and do an incredible job at it.

I’ve been considering implementing this feature in the future, but as you mentioned, it’s quite a major feature that would take significant time to develop. Unfortunately, I can’t provide an estimate at the moment.

That said, there are some new APIs coming out later this month that can help with scheduling playback and syncing multiple tracks. You could cache the returning value (IAudioPlayer) of each Play() methods and control them as needed.

To be honest, Unity already supports this feature, and I’ve just connected it with our system. Therefore, it still requires a lot of manual coding to build the logic, but if your idea isn’t too complex, it might be worth a try. Let me know if you’re interested and would like an example. Thanks!

[niom]

Cheers that it made sense.

Years back the team I was working with used Fabric for the audio management but that was years and years back. Now that I activated again I stumbled upon your neat and easy asset. I did also considered FMOD and WWise but they felt little over kill for a hobby project.

Yeah usually the advanced features are more time consuming to develop. I totally feel you on this matter. Best part here is that I'm not in a hurry nor is this a mandatory feature. Just felt that something this easy and nice asset could use this kind of advanced feature.

As I said I'm not in a hurry. Just nearing a playable alpha release of a simple shooting game. This being a one man hobby project could take years to complete and more to polish. I definitely keep following this project since it's more than promising.

Thank you for the workaround idea. I'll keep it in mind if I need this kind of a feature in the near future.

Keep up the good work!

[man572142]

Hey! Sorry for the long wait. I wanted to give you an update on this issue. The new API I mentioned earlier has been released in the latest update! It’s not exactly what you requested, but it does make it possible to implement this feature.

I might create a template code for this specific feature in the near future, but a full release with a proper GUI and more complete functionality would still take quite a bit of time. The schedule isn’t guaranteed at this point, but I’ll keep you posted! Thank you!