# Scatterer without panning?

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatterer-without-panning/12767>\
**Category:** FMOD Studio\
**Created:** [October 24, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatterer-without-panning/12767 "2016-10-24T01:43:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![GPnicolett](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/gpnicolett/32/1139_2.png) [@GPnicolett](https://qa.fmod.com/u/GPnicolett)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatterer-without-panning/12767/1 "2016-10-24T01:43:38Z")

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I’m looking to have a single sound triggered at random intervals, but at a fixed location.

Scatterer seems to do this but pans it all over the place. Any way to disable this?

Multi-sound seems to want to trigger a single sound only once per instance in a track…doesn’t seem like this is normal behavior, but maybe I’m expecting something a multi is not designed to do.

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**Author:** ![brett](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/brett/32/261_2.png) [@brett](https://qa.fmod.com/u/brett)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 10:02am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatterer-without-panning/12767/2 "2016-10-24T10:02:22Z")

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Have you just tried setting min/max distance to 0 ? That will disable volume/panning changes.

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**Author:** ![GPnicolett](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/gpnicolett/32/1139_2.png) [@GPnicolett](https://qa.fmod.com/u/GPnicolett)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatterer-without-panning/12767/3 "2016-10-24T19:21:35Z")

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> Have you just tried setting min/max distance to 0 ? That will disable volume/panning changes.

I did try that! but it still pans. I think distance in this case only refers to attenuation.

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**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatterer-without-panning/12767/4 "2016-10-24T22:53:33Z")

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@GregNicolett I can’t reproduce the behaviour you’ve described; Setting the Min & Max distance of the scatterer sound module to 0 definitely disables the scattering behavour. Are you sure you’re setting the Min and Max Distance of the scatterer sound module, and not the 3D Panner effect module?

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**Author:** ![GPnicolett](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/gpnicolett/32/1139_2.png) [@GPnicolett](https://qa.fmod.com/u/GPnicolett)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/scatterer-without-panning/12767/5 "2016-10-27T04:28:04Z")

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My bad, I had slid the slider down to “1” instead of “0”. Thanks!