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Before you start building your music hierarchy you need to think about the best way to organize your objects to save authoring time, but also to manage your project's memory consumption.

To optimize memory usage, consider applying properties at a higher level in the hierarchy so that they can be shared by the entire group. The following properties can be shared:

It is preferable to minimize the hierarchy of cascading Music Switch Containers. As much as possible, descendant Music Switch Containers should be self-contained making parent Music Switch Containers responsible for transitioning between distinct descendants and not between the internals of any individual descendant.

Since a Music Switch Container can be bound to multiple State Groups or Switch Groups, a single high level Music Switch Container can be setup to provide all of the logic for transitioning between its children. In cases where a Music Switch Container has Music Switch Container descendants, it is preferable to isolate State and Switch Groups to specific Music Switch Containers and not manage individual State and Switch changes from multiple levels of the hierarchy.

Be aware that by using multiple levels of Switch Containers, you introduce a situation where you are incapable of specifying an order of importance for all transitions, because they are defined in multiple distinct sets, each with a catch-all rule, and no relationship of priority exists between parent-child music switch transition rules. Consequently, if there are competing transition rules, it may be difficult to track the active music transition. For more information about transitions, refer to Understanding Transitions.