Stopping an instanced loop is not working

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Hello,
first of all I am new to FMOD so this might be a noob mistake:
I am using FMOD in Unity.
I want to instantiate an event that loops an alarm sound. This is happening in the Start() method of a prefab. This seems to work. The alarm is ringing. Once the player reaches to the alarming device and turns it off, the instance should be stopped immediatley. When I turn it off however, the sound doesn’t stop.
The debug messages are printed out correctly though. What am I doing wrong? Here is my starting and stopping code:

private FMOD.Studio.EventInstance alarmSoundInstance;

private void Start()
{
    //Start Alarm Sound
    StartAlarm(alarmSoundInstance);
}

public void StartAlarm(FMOD.Studio.EventInstance instance)
{
instance =   FMODUnity.RuntimeManager.CreateInstance(SoundManager.Instance.MeasurementDeviceAlarmEvent);
    instance.set3DAttributes(FMODUnity.RuntimeUtils.To3DAttributes(gameObject));
    instance.start();
    Debug.Log("ALARM STARTED");
}

public void StopAlarm(FMOD.Studio.EventInstance instance)
{
    instance.stop(FMOD.Studio.STOP_MODE.IMMEDIATE);
    instance.release();
    Debug.Log("ALARM STOPPED");
}

Thanks in advance!

2

The code you have shown seems fine, it could be simply how StopAlarm() is called in the game. Are you able to get a small Unity project of this happening and send it over for us to test on our end?

3

Sorry I do not have time to get a Unity project done since we are a very small team with a tight deadline. I fixed it by using the event emitter component instead for now. I’m going to post another solution here once I’ve got time to figure it out.

4

For some reason I’m having the same problem. I have this looped sound that I stop and you can hear it in the background. I have a registry on Event Instances and after I release them I take the Event Instance out of the registry, so I can see that the registry is empty but the sound can still be heard.

Unity 2020.3.27 FMOD (Unity) 2.01.07 FMOD Studio 2.01.05

Any clue?

5

I’m not able to replicate the issue on my machine using a looping event. Could you post how are you creating/releasing this event?

6

Unfortunately I have the same Issue. The FMOD.Studio.STOP_MODE.ALLOWFADEOUT is not working to stop a looping region. Im unsure why. At the moment I had to use a command instrument to stop the loop.

7

Hi,

What version of the FMOD integration are you using?

With the logging level set to Warning :
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Are there any logs that you can share?

Just to confirm, you are calling stop() on a valid event instance?