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On one side there’s sound for films- linear, on the other there’s sound for video games- interactive. In the middle, there is this gray area where immersive XR soundscapes can be created using both linear and interactive sound design approaches. Coming from the linear world, learning interactive audio has been a journey (and still is) but the ability to combine both to explore new ways of storytelling ...
Wwise Audio Lab (WAL) is an open-source game-like 3D environment developed with Unreal Engine 4 available through the Wwise Launcher. WAL puts the Unreal Project Source and Wwise Project in your hands to explore, audition, and create a better understanding of Spatial and 3D Audio.Since its launch in 2017, WAL (Wwise Audio Lab) has served as a way to identify current and best practices for integration ...
The Inception of Strata SFX library creators have produced and distributed their content in roughly the same fashion for the last four or five decades: they record, assemble, mix, and render sounds they design, and then sell them in theme-based packages to their audience. If we exclude a few exceptions, such as how BOOM Library offers construction kits of their designed sounds, there have been almost ...
In this article, we’ll be reviewing some of the improvements to CPU usage in Wwise 2022.1’s runtime: Performance Improvement Highlights Improvements to CPU Profiling Revamped CPU Scheduling Improved Parallelism and Concurrency Performance Improvements First, we want to showcase some general performance improvements in Wwise 2022.1: Improvements to RTPC Management Something that many developers have ...
Mixing audio for VR & AR games and experiences can be tiresome. In this blog, we'll provide the first insights into Dear Reality's upcoming solution, dearVR SPATIAL CONNECT for Wwise, which facilitates gesture control of Wwise in game engines like Unity. About Dear Reality At Dear Reality, we are working on immersive audio solutions to make spatial audio mixing less technical and ...
Dive and explore the underwater depths with the newest Strata collection, Submersion. This collaboration between Spectravelers and Audiokinetic will provide you with an extensive collection dedicated exclusively to underwater experiences and soundscapes. About Spectravelers We are two senior sound designers, each with over 10 years of experience each. Our shared passion for audio brought us together ...
We're excited to announce that the Meta XR Audio SDK Plug-in is now live in Wwise! This powerful plug-in delivers the core audio features required to create immersive experiences in mixed reality for Meta Quest headsets and other devices. With the Meta XR Audio SDK, you have access to the foundational components of spatial audio and acoustics simulation, enabling your apps to provide an immersive ...
Wwise SDK 2024.1.8 AKIAkGlobalPluginContext AK::IAkGlobalPluginContext Member List This is the complete list of members for AK::IAkGlobalPluginContext, including all inherited members. ComputeAmbisonicsEncoding(AkReal32 in_fAzimuth, AkReal32 in_fElevation, AkChannelConfig in_cfgAmbisonics, AK::SpeakerVolumes::VectorPtr out_vVolumes)=0AK::IAkGlobalPluginContextpure virtual ComputeSphericalCoordin ...
Adding child audio busses
Meta XR Audio Plug-in
After you set the Meta XR plug-in as an Audio Device on the master audio bus, add child busses for the passthrough, ambisonics, and object audio streams. First we’ll set up the passthrough bus to which we can route all stereo content that should bypass spatial rendering.Add three child busses as described in Working with busses in the Master-Mixer Hierarchy. Give the busses the ...
Ambisonic component ordering
Wwise Help
The two primary component ordering formats for ambisonics are Furse-Malham, commonly called FuMa, and Ambisonic Channel Number, commonly called ACN. As seen in the following image, the former uses a lettered notation that—following alphabetical order per grouping—starts with the W (omni) channel, moves to its lower right, then its lower left, and then its lower center; then it moves to the next order ...
The blog Ambisonics as an Intermediate Spatial Representation (for VR) explains in detail the concept of intermediate spatial (or 3D) representations. In summary, busses at the higher levels of your bus hierarchy should be configured such that they preserve 3D information so that it can be used to binauralize for headphones, or “downmix” (for lack of a better term) for speakers. This is especially ...
You can use certain Effect plug-ins, such as Auro Headphone or Resonance Audio (installed through the Audiokinetic Launcher), to convert ambisonics to a stereo configuration. In this way, you can benefit from the ambisonics format as an intermediate 3D representation of sounds and then effectively downmix the signal before it reaches the final output.To set up a binauralizer Effect ...
3D Meter
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The 3D Meter mode provides a 3D spherical representation of the directionality of an ambisonic signal. It calculates the Peak level at every position on the sphere. A heatmap representation is then generated from each of the positions on the sphere. The 3D meter mode is currently only available on busses that have an ambisonics bus configuration. During the decoding process, gain factors are applied ...
Audio Objects and Bus Config
Wwise Audio Lab
Description:The Campfire and Fountain examples have been authored to provide the greatest level of positional accuracy available in relation to the configuration set by the endpoint. Each example routes layers to different output configurations based on the endpoint's capabilities and the System Audio Device settings. Depending on the endpoint configuration ...
3D positioning illustrated
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3D positioning is the act of panning a source (with any channel configuration) into a bus (with any channel configuration) based on the relative positions and orientations of the emitter and listener objects in game. These objects' positions are set by the game via the Wwise sound engine API. Spread and Focus distance-based properties play a part in the panning method along with game-driven ...
Focus
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Note For context, reference the first example. The Focus parameter contracts together the virtual sources of each input channel, before applying rotation and spread. This is used to mitigate the leakage of input channels into output channels, when panning a discrete multichannel file. The following figure shows the case with 70% Spread that we have seen before. No Focus was used, and thus we ...
Effect of Height Spread
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Typical distance-driven Spread curve designs use large Spread when the source is near and small Spread when it is far from the listener. With this approach, the source is enveloping when it is near and point-like when it is far. Additionally, when sources are near, their incident direction is subject to abrupt change and they may sound unnatural. Large Spread values mitigate these artifacts.Similar ...
Panning on a 3D configuration
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Note For context, reference the first example. When panning on a 3D channel configuration, meaning a configuration (such as 7.1.4 or ambisonics) that can represent sound coming from above and/or below, the virtual sources are disposed in the shape of spherical caps. The following figures show stereo and 4.0 sources with various Spread and Focus.Recall that 3D positioning only takes up to 7 input ...
Environments
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Many of the same considerations discussed in Cinematic VR apply to Auxiliary Busses used for environmental Effects. The RoomVerb and AK Convolution Reverb Effects support ambisonics natively, however Matrix Reverb does not. You can use them on a stereo, 4.0, or greater bus, whether you want to use the front-back delays or not, and route them to ambisonic busses. Their output will be encoded to ambisonics ...
Soundseed Grain tips
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While exploring the Soundseed Grain granular synthesis, keep the following tips in mind.Press Start CapturePreview: edit in external editorUsing saw up mode for scanning file/implement time scaling effectsDesigning 3D ambiencesSound positioning settingsSoundseed Grain designAmplitude and filter are best used with grain modulationUsing markers in a macro windowPress Start CaptureIn Wwise, live monitoring ...