Crowd system and expanding

FMOD Studio
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Hi. I have a crowd that says specific words. Behind the “specific word crowd”, I have a layer of generic crowd (almost noise like) playing a the same time. In order for the “specific word crowd” to blend in more, I would like to have the “generic wordless crowd” follow the volume envelope of the “specific words crowd”.

I can achieve the opposite via sidechain and compression, but I would like to get expanding behaviour instead.
The reason I don’t do parameter modulation (volume) via the sidechain is that it’s resolution is too low and I can hear volume jumps.

Any good ideas?
Thanks

EDIT: I ended up doing the parameter modulation via sidechain. Basically modulating a parameter by the volume of the speak crowd track and then getting a nested event of the generic crowd and controlling the volume of that by the crowd.
If i fiddled around enough, I could get by with no volume artifacts.
I do wish FMOD was running as fast as unreal metasounds though. When doing fast pitch and volume change you can clearly hear steps. Not the case with metasounds.

Cheers

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I’m glad to hear you were able to achieve the behavior you wanted.

Thanks for mentioning Unreal Metasounds to us; we’ll investigate its documentation to see if there’s anything we can learn that could be applied to our own pitch and volume adjustment methods.

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You are welcome.
Basically, it updates at audio rate speed it seems. So you can have drastic changes to anything and it still sounds smooth.