Metasounds 5.2: Distance Based Dynamic Music Interaction: Deep-Dive

Here's a full breakdown of my Metasound Distance Based Musical interaction video. Unreal Engine 5.2 It uses player distance to adjust run-time dynamic levels of the music as well as the tempo of the music score. So as your player approaches a specific object, the music grows in intensity.
I used Timelines to feed Metasounds based on Player distance from each Cube. Both the music intensity and tempo increase and decrease based on location.
While this is a pretty standard concept, the scalability is insane! Use these concepts to generate AI melodic content, and real-time synth parameters.
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[@cabab]

Excellent video!! But I found that the "Delay Pitch Shift" node is so loss to audio, it works, but it make a lot of noise.....

[@cabab]

it seems that in UE Audio system, there is no "Stretch" mode to make audio speed up or down while the audio length keep the same.....

[@brianmichaelfuller]

Depending on your audio, anytime you stretch it by a lot you will hear some artifacts. One way to reduce this is to make sure the audio is clean and doesn’t have a lot of effects like reverb or delay. If you add that in real-time , post stretching, it can sound a lot better. Also, speeding up usually morphs better than slowing down.

[@annyantuv9068]

This is so good and have so many possibilities to do with the same techniques. Like changing multiple sonds according to distance like reverb and all.
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[@RomanWaves]

amazing work! thanks for the showcase Brian!
may I ask what string libraries you used? These sound great :)

[@brianmichaelfuller]

Thank you!! For this demo I used Ark Metropolis and LASS combined low strings. I find that often a combination does the trick!