Is it possible to keep an async instrument looping through a transition timeline? After the transition the loop resets. [hmnmmm] I want the top async instrument to keep looping into the next magnet region, and the bottom 2 to fade in through the transition timeline… intuitively this feels like …

I solved this by setting polyphony to 2. For some reason it needs another voice to continue playing through the transition timeline!! [solved] Also, further solved by @Alcibiade , you can leave polyphony on 1, and change the stealing to none.

No, this should not work. It is a known limitation of FMOD’s transition timelines: instruments going across loose their continuity and are retriggered. To work around this, you should play your instrument another way, either in an action sheet, a parameter sheet, or another event. I’ll try your pol…

Haha finally after months of taking and taking from this forum, I finally contributed. I’m so happy. Ah wow, let me try that. Cos yeah having 2 voices at once definately isn’t ideal

YES! that’s even better. nice one dude!

This reminded me that instruments also had polyphony settings. I often tweak the polyphony at the event level but rarely or never at the instrument level ; now I know it can be useful!

I’m having some trouble getting this to work. When I try making an event like the one shown in the screenshot and setting the instrument’s polyphony to 2 or 1, the old instance of the instrument is untriggered when the playback position passes through the transition timeline, resulting in the instru…

Have you set the stealing to none, @joseph ?

@joseph , also you have to create fades in the transition timeline both from the destination and from the source. I hadn’t done that in the first screenshot, but I did show it in the solution screenshot

That’s not necessary, just creating the transition timeline is sufficient. However, I should test how this behaves with a looping unstrument, when it reaches the end of its internal content. My guess is that it may not loop properly. I’ll test that later.

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Alcibiade September 29, 2022, 10:42pm 5

Indeed, your trick is really good and probably allows to avoid this problem!
However, it seems to me the good setting on the async instrument to fully prevent its retrigger is:

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