# Scatter always starts with by playing a sound? **URL:** https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatter-always-starts-with-by-playing-a-sound/18242 **Category:** FMOD Studio **Created:** [January 19, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatter-always-starts-with-by-playing-a-sound/18242 "2022-01-19T18:13:16Z") **Posts on this page:** 3 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Aud10Keb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/aud10keb/32/3063_2.png) [@Aud10Keb](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Aud10Keb) #### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatter-always-starts-with-by-playing-a-sound/18242/1 "2022-01-19T18:13:16Z")
Hello, I am using the scatter instrument to create an ambient background. Whenever I press play on the timeline one of the sounds in the scatter always play right on start regardless of the spawn rate or time intervals set. When using a few different scatter instruments this causes a problem as immediately on playing you always hear at least one sound from all the scatter instruments. It’s quite a lot of sound on start but after that the random time intervals kick in. The interval randomness doesn’t seem to work at the start. Is there a way around this? ---
### Author: ![Alcibiade](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/alcibiade/32/4284_2.png) [@Alcibiade](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Alcibiade) #### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatter-always-starts-with-by-playing-a-sound/18242/2 "2022-01-19T21:17:23Z")
Here’s the setting you overlooked: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/e/e3bee4ee5bc9a8e889a012f539c7bfaa17113b39.png) ---
### Author: ![Aud10Keb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/aud10keb/32/3063_2.png) [@Aud10Keb](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Aud10Keb) #### Post date: [January 20, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatter-always-starts-with-by-playing-a-sound/18242/3 "2022-01-20T14:24:25Z")
Thanks so much. I understand it now. Thank you for the helping me.