If you don’t already use subscenes in your scenes, you should consider doing so. This makes it so you can include one scene in another one. By doing this you can setup scenes that are only ever used by including them elsewhere, which makes them really nicely composable chunks of functionality.
Where would you use subscenes? Here’s a screenshot of some of my scenes. The ones prefixed with Part:
are a portion of sources that are included in other places. The second screenshot shows an example of what’s inside of one of those parts. Now I can just include that single Part: Spotify Song
in my other scenes once rather than having to include the entire set of stuff each time.
And here is me using those parts in a composed view. You still have access to all of the audio sources that are in the current scene and in any of the subscenes that are included in that scene (but it hides the ones that aren’t applicable!) In my case the majority of my audio comes from my Composite Layer: Bottom
, so if I hide it (by hitting the eyeball) it will hide all of those audio devices that are now disabled. It makes things so much more managable.
And for reference, this is my Composite Layer: Bottom
showing all the things that are included. I do this so I can just add that single composite layer to all of my scenes and never have to worry about my audio again.
And here’s my Composite Layer: Top
which is there specifically to put things OVER THE TOP of all the other things in the scene. That’s literally the only reason it’s in a separate layer.