I think FMOD should have something similar to “Voice Steal Release Time” in UE4 concurrency settings. I found it super useful for a fantasy machine gun using a very long tail sound: with the polyphony (max count in UE4) set to 1, steal oldest, and the steal release time set to 0.3, it insures a very neat rafale shooting without abruptly cutting the previous sound, and allows for the long tail to develop only on the last sound. I think this option should be part of the scatterer instrument and the event macros. [concurrency]

Suggestion: steal release time

Andrew August 23, 2026, 11:24pm 21

Sorry to hear it Ed. I’ve noted your interest and brought it up with the team.

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