2014.1.4 is a patch release. The following sections list and describe the changes to Wwise between version 2014.1.3 and version 2014.1.4.

Platform SDK changes

• Updated Xbox One XDK to February 2015.

Performance Improvements

• WG-26700 Improved Wwise Profiler performance.

Behavioral Changes

• WG-25995 Changed SetGameObjectOutputBusVolume() to now affect (main) output bus volume of voices even when they are not sending to a user or game-defined auxiliary bus.

New Features

• WG-27008 Added the Wwise Project Adventure handbook in Simplified Chinese.

Miscellaneous Changes

• WG-26841 Removed some compilation warnings in the PS4 release build.
• WG-26784 Added Wwise command-line tool for Mac Authoring.

Bug Fixes

• WG-26197 Fixed: XMA conversion errors when encoding multichannel XMA.
• WG-26518 Fixed: Looping sounds are not playable from the Transport in "Non-Original" mode if the original file does not exist.
• WG-26688 Fixed: Voice Monitor Bus Input mode not displaying correct values when inspected bus is not HDR.
• WG-26717 Fixed: Crash when changing state while an unloaded switch container is still active.
• WG-26738 Fixed: Property Editor: All properties tab are hidden when added in floating view.
• WG-26750 Fixed: Crash when renaming or changing the Location of a Custom Property.
• WG-26826 Fixed: "Work Unit modified" message, which can appear when saving, is now configurable through the Windows registry.
• WG-26842 Fixed: Audio hardware failure causes hangs on Wii U.
• WG-26862 Fixed: "Sound is not attached to any listener" message appears every time AK::SoundEngine::SetActiveListeners() is called.
• WG-26870 Fixed: Possible crash when adding new binding in the Control Surface Bindings.
• WG-26871 Fixed: Possible crash when playing a Music Switch Container.
• WG-26881 Fixed: Minor return code confusion when multiple sounds are queried with AK::SoundEngine::GetSourceStreamBuffering().
• WG-26897 Fixed: Gaps in audio in some interactive music use cases.
• WG-26899 Fixed: Fade-in on Music Switch Tracks can fail.
• WG-26902 Fixed: Not all mixer plug-in functions are profiled for CPU usage.
• WG-26912 Fixed: Changing object selection in Control Surface does not update the binding group when the view is opened in another layout.
• WG-26914 Fixed: Control Surface bindings on Game Parameters with different ranges affect each other.
• WG-26917 Fixed: Race condition in AK::SoundEngine::UnloadBank() causes rare memory corruption in Default Pool.
• WG-26932 Fixed: Automatically modified presets are not saved.
• WG-26946 Fixed: Instance limiting ignores voices that are under the volume threshold in "Continue To Play" mode and lets them play.
• WG-26962 Fixed: Inconsistent AkDeviceSettings::uNumConcurrentIO in deferred streaming device results in I/O freeze.
• WG-26963 Fixed: ConvertExternalSources option is case-sensitive and fails silently.
• WG-26979 Fixed: Non-cachable streaming flag sometimes ignored in game-side Wwise.
• WG-26985 Fixed: State transition time wrongly handled when setting same state many times in a row.
• WG-26922 Fixed: Crash when using Atrac9 and HDR on PS4.
• WG-27006 Fixed: ControlSurfacesConfig.xml error when generating SoundBanks with WwiseCLI.exe.
• WG-27025 Fixed: SoundbanksInfo.xml GUID of the Init bank is changing at every generation.
• WG-27027 Fixed: Possible crash on PS4 when a decoding error is detected on an Atrac9 streamed file.