Audio Channels reality check

Unity Engine
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I am throwing together an audio manager to prevent the audio from 'sploding at me. Does anyone have a sense of what a “safe” number of channels is?

The plan is to give the AudioManager an array of AudioChannels, which are decorated AudioSources that provide a callback to the AM when they are done playing. I am thinking…

a) 2 AudioChannels for background music
b) 3 AudioChannels for interface events
c) 10 AudioChannels for game effects

The first two categories might(?) be in stereo; the game effects would be worldspace’d mono.

Has anyone had problems using that many channels for an AudioManager? Conversely: am I under-utilizing the audio engine here?

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Hey Smarcus. How did you get on with this? I am wondering the same thing about Audio Channels. Brand new to Unity so keen to hear from others.

cheers.

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I’m going with the same approach for now… it hasn’t caused any problems yet but I haven’t got half the effects plugged in, so who knows…