Unreal 5 Early Access MetaSounds Sample Accurate Triggers With Guns

Someone asked about precision timing in UE5, fam! MetaSounds ain't your grandma's SoundCues. We got your Sample Accurate Triggering right here!

[@The-Vay-AADS]

Amazing. Most epic, multifunctional, approachable, "easy to pick up, hard to master" "in engine" audio engine... Huge, huge props to you all! This is such a serious issue to deal with, for music, guns, effects, you name it. Very inspiring to see what is possible once the foundation is so solid. :) Thanks for sharing!

[@hoverpillow6106]

Simply WOW.

[@thenoobdev]

Great stuff! I have some high quality weapon fire sounds, how should I go about to edit these in metasounds, like: input > character indoor/outdoor > change sound accordingly > output

[@DanReynoldsAudio]

Yeah, check out the Attenuation Interface in MetaSounds, it lets you know how far away the listener is from the source and you can do your complex transition between close/far sounds, etc. For indoor/outdoor, you'll need some flag to let your source know if it's playing indoors or outdoors, there may be a lot of ways to do this, but generally in BP or code you'd pass in the flag to tell, so the MetaSound will use the correct signal path.

[@LyoshaLozhkin]

resembles a granular synthesizer. But in this case the entire sample is repeated. And the NODEs are more understandable to the musician

[@DanReynoldsAudio]

Kind of, when I flip back to the first Wave Player, it gets cut off. That's why it sounds more like a buzz at high frequencies than a stream of gunshots. If I rotated through a whole bunch of Wave Players though, it would play more of the full sample. That's an interesting point though about granular synths.

[@LyoshaLozhkin]

@@DanReynoldsAudio Ah, now I get it, for shots and things like that, this processing option is more convenient. I'm glad I started to learn ureal, a very flexible tool

[@imwyan]

How do i connect this to a key press? key press = begin fire sound, Key release = end fire sound

[@DanReynoldsAudio]

Use the Blueprint API to send triggers to your MetaSound through the Audio Component.

[@LuisFrontanilla]

Is hidding likes and dislikes a post modern growth strategy? :D