How to bypass audio effects from script? (AudioMixer)

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1

For my game, I intend to make heavy use of audio effects in Unity 5’s AudioMixer. I understand how to expose parameters to control them from script.

But how do I bypass audio effects from script (to conserve cpu)? There seems to be no “enabled” property or parameter that I could set in the inspector, where other exposable parameters show up. There is only the toggle button in the mixer view itself.

Surely it’s possible to do that from script?

5

It is 2022 and this is STILL an issue.

I can’t turn ON or OFF effects or even bypass them at runtime/through code

How am I supposed to handle a hundred audio sources? Uh? Assigning and de-assigning audio mixer simply is NOT an option here. And this is exactly my case.

Unity come on, it’s been 5 years now

2

your AudioSourceGameobject.SetActive(true/false);

3

Use snapshots. Have one with the effect on and one with it off. You can script to transitionTo another snapshot

4

You can say audioSource.outputAudioMixerGroup = null. To enable that mixer later, simply assign it again.