Audio sounds bad i packaged build ever since 5.8

Summary

I cloned my project to 5.8. In editor the music and sounds works just fine. But when i package the build, the sounds are bad.

  • Audio is thin/sharp
    -Background music cuts out when other sounds play.
    -Sounds seems to cancel each other out.

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Audio

Steps to Reproduce

-Update project with a lot of sounds including background music from 5.7 to 5.8
-Package project

Expected Result

  • Audio is thin/sharp
    -Background music cuts out when other sounds play.
    -Sounds seems to cancel eachother out.

Observed Result

  • Audio is thin/sharp
    -Background music cuts out when other sounds play.
    -Sounds seems to cancel eachother out.

Affects Versions

5.8

Platform(s)

Windows

Additional Notes

-i double checked with a diffrent pc, same issue there
-re-migrated all sounds from old project

  • double checked the old version with a packaged build to see if the issue was already there.
    -this might be related: after updating, ultra dynamic skies was making some kind of high pitched thin refrigerator sound. that got fixed by redownloading the plugin.

Try bringing back XAudio2. In 5.8, WASAPI is now used by default. This made my sound flat — as I understood it, it was running on the most basic default sound driver without any settings and at the minimum sample rate.