Sound problem - four thwacks in a row

So I’m writing a thing where I want word overlays to smack onto the screen in a classic movie manner but two of the four thwack sounds are muted. You can hear the first one and the third one but not two and four. I put some distance between them but it doesn’t help. Anyone knows how to make all four hearable without making the distance between them greater? I don’t want to make it looping by writing it as music either because then it’s too fast.

This is the coding for the sequence

@zoom on CARLOS to 400% in 0.03
CARLOS (talk_angry)
Viva la revolution!

sound thwack
@pause for 0.3
@overlay HARLEY create
@overlay HARLEY scales to 0.339 0.339 in 0
@overlay HARLEY shifts to 96 18 in 0 in zone 4
@overlay HARLEY opacity 1 in 0
@overlay HARLEY moves to layer 9
&overlay HARLEY scales to 0.116 0.116 in 0.2
@overlay HARLEY shifts to 150 239 in 0.2 in zone 4
@pause for 0.3

@speechbubble is 89 625
@pause for 0.00001
sound thwack
@pause for 0.3
@overlay NEEDS TO create
@overlay NEEDS TO scales to 0.339 0.339 in 0
@overlay NEEDS TO shifts to 96 18 in 0 in zone 4
@overlay NEEDS TO opacity 1 in 0
@overlay NEEDS TO moves to layer 9
&overlay NEEDS TO scales to 0.116 0.116 in 0.2
@overlay NEEDS TO shifts to 150 239 in 0.2 in zone 4

@pause for 0.3

@pause for 0.00001
sound thwack
@pause for 0.3

@overlay PAY HER create
@overlay PAY HER scales to 0.339 0.339 in 0
@overlay PAY HER shifts to 96 18 in 0 in zone 4
@overlay PAY HER opacity 1 in 0
@overlay PAY HER moves to layer 9
&overlay PAY HER scales to 0.116 0.116 in 0.2
@overlay PAY HER shifts to 150 239 in 0.2 in zone 4
@pause for 0.3

@pause for 0.00001
sound thwack
@pause for 0.3

@overlay RENT create
@overlay RENT scales to 0.339 0.339 in 0
@overlay RENT shifts to 96 18 in 0 in zone 4
@overlay RENT opacity 1 in 0
@overlay RENT moves to layer 9
&overlay RENT scales to 0.116 0.116 in 0.2
@overlay RENT shifts to 150 239 in 0.2 in zone 4
@pause for 2
NARR
Tap to continue.
@speechbubble reset

You need to put “sound off” right before the next sound plays.

So, I did that and now you can hear the first thwack and then like a millisecond of of the third and fourth one. The second one is still completely muted and the last two sound like a “th” without the “whack”.

Well it’s kind of hard to do what you’re trying to do with the sounds. You’re trying to have the sounds one after the other with less than a second each. But the same sounds cannot play right after each other like that, because a sound needs to completely play all the way through before the next sound can play. The only way to have the same sound play right after the other sound is if you turn the sound off then play the 2nd sound.

Dang it. Was hoping there was a way to sort of layer them, feel like I’ve managed to do that before but maybe there was more than a second between them then. Thanks anyway!

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I’m a genius. Just in case anyone else where to run into this problem.

I fixed it!

alternating between music and sound

@zoom on CARLOS to 400% in 0.03
CARLOS (talk_angry)
Viva la revolution!

music thwack
@pause for 0.3
@overlay HARLEY create
@overlay HARLEY scales to 0.339 0.339 in 0
@overlay HARLEY shifts to 96 18 in 0 in zone 4
@overlay HARLEY opacity 1 in 0
@overlay HARLEY moves to layer 9
&overlay HARLEY scales to 0.116 0.116 in 0.2
@overlay HARLEY shifts to 150 239 in 0.2 in zone 4
@pause for 0.3

@speechbubble is 89 625
@pause for 0.00001
music off
@pause for 0.00001
sound thwack
@pause for 0.3
@overlay NEEDS TO create
@overlay NEEDS TO scales to 0.339 0.339 in 0
@overlay NEEDS TO shifts to 96 18 in 0 in zone 4
@overlay NEEDS TO opacity 1 in 0
@overlay NEEDS TO moves to layer 9
&overlay NEEDS TO scales to 0.116 0.116 in 0.2
@overlay NEEDS TO shifts to 150 239 in 0.2 in zone 4

@pause for 0.3

@pause for 0.00001
sound off
@pause for 0.00001
music thwack
@pause for 0.3

@overlay PAY HER create
@overlay PAY HER scales to 0.339 0.339 in 0
@overlay PAY HER shifts to 96 18 in 0 in zone 4
@overlay PAY HER opacity 1 in 0
@overlay PAY HER moves to layer 9
&overlay PAY HER scales to 0.116 0.116 in 0.2
@overlay PAY HER shifts to 150 239 in 0.2 in zone 4
@pause for 0.3

@pause for 0.00001
music off
@pause for 0.00001
sound thwack
@pause for 0.3

@overlay RENT create
@overlay RENT scales to 0.339 0.339 in 0
@overlay RENT shifts to 96 18 in 0 in zone 4
@overlay RENT opacity 1 in 0
@overlay RENT moves to layer 9
&overlay RENT scales to 0.116 0.116 in 0.2
@overlay RENT shifts to 150 239 in 0.2 in zone 4
@pause for 2
NARR
Tap to continue.
@speechbubble reset

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