Random ambience with voice limit isn’t rotating back

Question

I’m building an ambience with several Random Containers (frogs, rocks, dolphin, whale, wind - don't mind the weird mix of sounds, these are just names). They should trigger randomly and sometimes overlap, but never exceed 3 simultaneous voices. Everything is started by one Event.

However, if I use Playback Limit inside each random container (Kill / Reject old), Wwise kills that source permanently. It won’t re-enter the random pool, so after a while only 1–2 species keep playing and variation collapses. So, if it kills "rocks" and "frogs" initially, then it will keep playing randomly what's inside of the other three random containers (dolphin, whale, wind).

What can I do to make it work?

It's structured as it follows:

 

Actor-Mixer

• Max Voices: 3
• Contains:
  • Blend Container (no RTPC, only organisational)
    • Random_Dolphin
      • Pause
      • audio files
    • Random_Frog
      • Pause
      • audio files
    • All the other random containers

Answer 1

Hi Stefano,

have you set the “If Limit Reached" setting inside the Playback Limit category to “Kill”? You can instead select “Use virtual voice settings” and in the Virtual Voice category send the object to the Virtual Voice List. See the documentation page for: Understanding virtual voices

Answer 2

Hello Stephano,

Alessandro is right.

If I read and understand properly your configuration you have 1 Blend Container and 5 Random Containers = 6 GameObject.

Do not “Kill”, use “Virtual Voices Settings” and, further more, you have to check the “ Scope ” Global or GameObject.

However, by experience, in your case, you must set under your Actor Mixer the Maximum Voices at 6 not 3.
Why?, because the Blend Container and the Random Containers are different AudioObject/GameObject and you have a total of 6 under your Actor-Mixer set a 3 and when reached, kills other voices. That's means you have no more room to post new instance of your Random Containers. I think you expect to post these in your ambience then, do not use “Kill”. What you want is randomly and sometimes “sounds” from your Random Containers, then you can also for each “overide” or “ignore" Parent and set each one to 1 with, “Vitual Setting” + “Vitual Voice Behavior”.
Don't be afraid, when one Random Container is in “Pause” it doesn't cost such resource.