# Unity Timeline - Preview 3D events in Edit Mode

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/unity-timeline-preview-3d-events-in-edit-mode/22557>\
**Category:** Unity\
**Tags:** unity\
**Created:** [January 31, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/unity-timeline-preview-3d-events-in-edit-mode/22557 "2025-01-31T11:20:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ValentinPtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e95f7d/32.png) [@ValentinPtt](https://qa.fmod.com/u/ValentinPtt)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/unity-timeline-preview-3d-events-in-edit-mode/22557/1 "2025-01-31T11:20:54Z")

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Hello,

I had a workflow were I was using Audio Track in Unity Timeline to integrate sound in a scene. With the aim of audio quality improvement, we decided to switch to FMOD.

So now I’m using FMOD Event Tracks. I assign the 3D coordinates to the event by referencing the GameObject in the FMOD Event Track.

The issue is that currently, when I Play the Timeline **in Editor** the events are not spatialized. Everything is centered as if I was playing the event from the Event Browser at a Listener position of 0,0,0.

Here is an example where I currently ear the sound centered, although I would like to ear the sound from the right :

 ![FMOD_Timeline_Spatialization](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/4/47df4e57ad8a78267991e82c58f1bbde9299847d.jpeg)

When I play the Timeline in **Play Mode** , the spatialization works as intended. But for this specific project, it’s not optimized at all to work this way so here is my question :

Is there a way to hear spatialized sound in **Editor Mode** with the Unity Timeline / FMOD Event Track workflow (as the Unity native Audio track offers)

I’m using Unity 2022.3.11f1 and FMOD 2.02.24

Thank you !

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**Author:** ![Connor\_FMOD](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/connor_fmod/32/3685_2.png) [@Connor\_FMOD](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Connor_FMOD)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/unity-timeline-preview-3d-events-in-edit-mode/22557/2 "2025-02-07T00:50:11Z")

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Hi,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, I have been able to reproduce the issue. Unfortunately, there isn’t a simple workaround at the moment. I have passed on your suggestion to our development team to investigate further.