So, FMOD Studio best practices - should I create a bunch of sound effect instances when loading the game/room, to be used later or never, or should I use their "fire and forget" method where I make the instance at the time I need it and let the engine release it when it's done?
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For most sounds a one-shot fire and forget method is just fine, it'll have negligible latency if its bank is already loaded. I mostly only ever keep track of the instances when I need to update some parameter during the event's lifetime or if I need stop it early.
Yeah, that is what I was wondering...like since the bank is loaded it should just be reading data already in memory. But they have that loadSampleData method that made me think maybe not.