Audio in Timeline is not respecting 2D vs 3D audio source values

All audio played via Timeline is played as 3D audio. This results in audio that shifts from left to right and in volume even when the audio source is set to 2d and is attached to the camera.

I'm trying to build a missing briefing sequence and this is resulting in audio fading and shifting where the desired audio should be consistent and mono.

if I've missed a setting... I welcome any help anyone can suggest.

j.

 

Did you find any solution to this?

I have the same problem. I want to add music to a timeline and control the volume but if I add an audio source 2d to timeline the music sound in 3d anyway.

 

This is for certain a bug. My timeline does not even have an audio source attached. Yet I'm experiencing the following:
My timeline has a track that activates an object with an audio source set to 2D spatial blend and play on awake . My timeline does not even have an audio source component. Yet sound is coming from the timeline and not the object just activated. And it is always set to 3D. Right now I'm having to move the timeline location to the player so they can hear. The desired outcome is timelines should not be an audio source. The audio source should be from the object being activated by the timeline. @mikew_unity

 

Hey, just found this thread because I also have this bug. This occurs using Unity 2018.1.0f2
Edit : My track is also referencing an audio source that has Spatial Blend fully set to 0(2D)

 

I have a similar bug. Changing the Audio Source Volume is not working as expected. The Audio Track is linked to a Audio Source on my scene, but the changes on Audio Source Properties (Volume or any other) does not reflect on the Audio being played on timeline.
Using Unity 2018.1.f2

 

@mikew_unity Please, tell me that there is some workaround for this Audio Volume problem with Time Line. I need to generate a final build very soon, and need this to be fixed.

 

If you need to generate a final build very soon then don't wait for Unity to fix it. Create your own track/clip/mixer that plays an audio source directly from reference. That's what I did and it works for the time being.

 

I have this bug too in 2018.1.1f1,but my problem is I can't play a 3D sound.
Out of max distance, I still hearing the sound

 

@Fsora correct - my audio source is set to fully 3D, and I can see the listener distance being tracked on it in play mode, but it makes NO DIFFERENCE to the volume when Timeline is playing clips through that audio source. It's 100% a bug.

@mikew_unity any chance you can look into this? I can't easily report a reproducable bug with a 30GB project. I'm pretty sure this is happening to everyone.

EDIT: some more information - basically, the audio source you attach to the track is ignored. It is as if a new audio source is dynamically created at co-ordinates (0,0,0) and this audio source is set to 3D, with a very long range. I came to this conclusion by placing an audio listener at (0,0,0) in the scene, and then moving it around in play mode to see how it reacts to the audio track in Timeline. So, there's a bug where the audio source on your Timeline track is ignored, and instead a default, dynamically created one is used (my guess is, some code was added to create some kind of default audio source if none is attached to the track, but the code has a bug).

EDIT 2: well, it's behaving "as if" an audio source is created, but it's still seemingly using the audio source you attached, but bypassing every single setting + the distance from it (for 3D audio).

 

I'm seeing the same problem. Posted on Audio forum:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/aud...eaks-spatial-blend-jumps-between-ears.535975/

....instead of here, but it's obviously associated with Timeline.

Have also posted a bug.

Very much need a fix or workaround. Any suggestions welcome, and how about a fix, Unity!

 

Hi, do you have a link to the bug report page? This thread seems kind of dead.

 

Sure, here you go:

https://fogbugz.unity3d.com/default.asp?1048890_gih2hnj6sojb0pld

 

Found a workaround for this. If you play a sound through the bound AudioSource via any non-Timeline means, the Timeline will subsequently play its own audio with the right 2D/3D settings. PlayOneShot works for this, for example:

Code (CSharp):

1. public AudioSource source;    // The AudioSource bound to the Timeline
2. public AudioClip silenceClip; // An AudioClip, consists of a tiny bit of silence
3.  
4. private void AudioTrackWorkaround()
5. {
6.     source.PlayOneShot(silenceClip);
7.     // Now any Timeline can use this AudioSource
8.     // as a binding target and work correctly
9.     somePlayableDirector.Play(myTimelineWithAudio);
10. }

That's a bit abbreviated, but it's more or less what I did and it seems to work. It is technically doubling the total number of sounds played, even if just for an instant, but for our purposes that was ok.

 

Forgot to update this thread but in the other one I link to I replied:

"I heard from someone at Unity who said that the issue sounds similar to one they had with audio from a video player, and that it should be fixed in the 2018.2 beta. I tried out that beta and it seemed to work in some ways, i.e. I am now able to hear a difference along the Spatial Blend between 2D and 3D. Unfortunately I now have at least one important object that inverts the binaural sound: i point my left ear at the source of the sound and I hear it in my right. However another object set up exactly the same way (as far as I can tell) works fine."

That inversion issue was apparently my own fault, as Unity QA replied:

"Seems like the audio object had it's Audio Source's Spread set to 360, which results in audio being flipped.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource-spread.html
"0 = all sound channels are located at the same speaker location and is 'mono'. 360 = all subchannels are located at the opposite speaker location to the speaker location that it should be according to 3D position. Default = 0."

Setting it back to 0 should make the sound return to normal."

That worked too.

 

Good job, this works

 

Check project settings > Audio > System Sample Rate
For some reason it changed to 0. Should be set at 24+ according to what you are doing