Play audio for x seconds and pause for x seconds?

Hi, I think ive just set out on a bad foot with this one and over complicated things.

I have a short audio file that is a single monotone and I have it repeat so its like a ongoing "tone".

However I want it to act like a "beep" so either pauses for n seconds or set the volume to 0 for n seconds either one is fine. However i want to to STOP for n seconds and then PLAY for n seconds and so on, n is variable which changes?

Any pointers?

Thanks

 

Hi, have you considered using a coroutine ?. You could pass 'n' and use yieldreturnnewWaitForSeconds(n).

 

Like Songroom said, a coroutine would get the job done.
Do something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. public float playTime = 0.5f;
2. public float pauseTime = 0.5f;
3. private AudioSource beep;
4.  
5. void Start()
6. {
7.     beep = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
8.     StartCoroutine("PlayPauseCoroutine");
9. }
10.  
11. IEnumerator PlayPauseCoroutine()
12. {
13.     while(true)
14.     {
15.         beep.Play();
16.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(playTime);
17.         beep.Pause(); // or beep.Stop()
18.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(pauseTime);
19.     }
20. }