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I mean by that, can you tell your story like where do you find these people to work with. How often do you compose for games? How the process look like from start to end? I just really want to know how it looks like to start composing music for games.

Thanks for attention!

I am working on a music game where users can create their own songs using a very basic DAW/Piano Roll system.
I need to be able to play various sound clips at precise times.
I use AudioSettings.dspTime and audioSource.PlayScheduled
My approach worked fine in WebGL until around Unity 2021.3.40. Something changed and now I'm getting issues where scheduled clips don't seem to play when they're supposed to. Apparently there are several known issues with the audio system that haven't been fixed yet. This being one of them.
https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/audiosource-dot-playdelayed-playing-sound-without-delay-when-in-webgl-build

I'm not having that exact problem, but the timeline is similar and it only happens in WebGL.

I'm wondering if it makes sense to switch to FMOD. I don't need any of the additional features it provides. I just need the ability to play audio precisely in Unity WebGL.
Is there a simpler alternative that gets around the Unity WebGL issues?

Thank you for your time

Hi all,
I'm a programmer who is working with a sound designer for a game jam, and they have Wwise integrated and setup on their end. We are using git, and now after their integration, I tried to add a basic c++ implementation with some code. However, whenever I try to build (with or without the AK code), I run into several linker errors that look roughly like this,
12>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'D:\RTGJ\TheLastMile\Plugins\WwiseSoundEngine\Source\WwiseAuthoring....\ThirdParty\x64_vc170\Profile\lib\AkAutobahn.lib'
The other errors just being different .lib files in the same/similar directories.
I've tried deleting the files, regenerating project files, cleaning the project, etc. Nothing seems to fix it.

Does anyone have the solution to this?

Hey guys! So Ive been wanting to learn more about game audio for a while, I have previous experience in sound design.

Ive been learning more and more about fmod and wwise and I want to start contributing on some smaller game jams for practice, but I’m a bit confused on how the collaboration process works between a sound designer/composer and a programmer. I know a lot of it deals with using the same names for your events as in the game code so would the programmer(s) give you that information?

Sorry very vague lol I’m still very early on with things.

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I have 6 years of experience as a sound editor in the film industry, with a strong focus on crafting ambiances and roomtones — something I’m particularly passionate about. I also have extensive experience as a sound effects editor. I've worked on over 40 feature films, documentaries, and series, many of which have been selected at prestigious festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, and the Oscars.

I'm fully aware of the differences between sound work for linear media like film and interactive formats in game audio. I understand that tools like Wwise and Unreal Engine are key in the game industry, while film sound relies primarily on Pro Tools combined with various plugins.

Given these differences, do you think I have a realistic chance of being hired in the game industry? Also, would my film-focused portfolio still be appealing to game audio employers? Any advice on making this shift would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Hi everybody, I'm a little newer to sound implementation and I've been having trouble with my C# code. I was hoping maybe someone would be able to help me out. I'm using Wwise Integration with Unity, and I'm receiving the following error when I compile my code:

Assets/UnityTechnologies/Scripts/MusicController.cs(11,8): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'SoundEngine' does not exist in the namespace 'AK' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

I have a script called MusicController which I'm using to switch states in my Music SoundBank, and I've attached the code for my script here:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using AK.Wwise;


public class MusicController : MonoBehaviour
{

    public static GameObject player = GameObject.find("Player");
    AK.SoundEngine.AkGameObjectID myPlayerID;

    public static GameEnding gameEnding;
    void Start()
    {
        myPlayerID = AkSoundEngine.RegisterGameObject(player);
        AkSoundEngine.SetState("MusicState", "Exploring");
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }

    public static void setCaught(){
        AkSoundEngine.SetState("MusicState", "Caught");
    }

    public static void setExit(){
        AkSoundEngine.SetState("MusicState", "Exit");
    }
}

Can anyone help me understand what is wrong? I looked at the documentation on the AudioKinetic website and it has a type for SoundEngine in the AK namespace. Thank you!

I've read that many of you use synths to design tonal magic and I was wondering how do you go about trying to avoid recognisible musical pitch that may clash with other layers or the music.

Hullo, I have always had this issue when using the Wwise Unreal integration with source control. People usually suggest janky solutions like removing .dll, .lib and binaries from your .gitignore.

Just found the solution myself and would like to share it here for anyone else who has been bashing their heads against a wall:

The files in your "Plugins/WwiseSoundEngine/ThirdParty" folder are required to rebuild the plugin. Make sure that folder is not being ignored and the project will be able to build the plugin like normal. Added benefit of not inflating the repo size like if you unignored all .dll and .lib files.

It is mentioned here, in step 2 of the documentation in installing Wwise as an engine plugin. No idea why they don't mention it in the source control documentation.

I hope this alleviates some suffering, I'd reply to the archived reddit threads if I could.

This problem confuses me. For some reason, whenever I load the Unity project, it loads sounds from an older version of the sound bank, many of which I've completely replaced and thus should no longer exist anywhere. But the Wwise picker plays the correct sounds. For some reason, I have to generate the sound banks again from the Wwise picker.

When I connect Wwise to Unity, these sounds don't play, but they don't play the new ones either. The profiler shows that Unity is trying, and failing, to call the old sounds (which use the same event, but different audio files). It's just odd because these sounds just shouldn't exist anywhere, and somehow Unity is pulling them from the grave. Sound bank folders haven't been changed from their defaults. Do I need to call a necromancer?

freshman gamdev student here. I want to focus on sound design to be able to participate in game jams. can someone tell me where should i start? what tools do i need to have? resources i can learn from? if it's okay i would also love to be taught by people who are in this field.

I would like to make subtle evolving crystal, orb sounding pads that sit in the background [is there better terminology for what i am talking about ? english is not my first language]

I have been layering Roland JD-800 slow bell pad from roland cloud specifically to do this but it would be awesome to have suggestions for things that do similar function

Thank you!

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Hello,

I am a graduate audio producer and sound designer with over 6 years of experience in music production and 2 years in sound design. I have been working as a freelancer on Fiverr for a year now and I've done over 100 projects but none that involve audio integration.

So my question is how long would It take for me to learn both WWise with Unreal 5 and FMOD with Unity so I can start looking for a sound designer role?

I know the basics of Wwise and Unreal Engine 5 as I've spent some time learning It.

Thank you in advance :)

I have been trying to get the spatial audio volumes to work and having issues. In the wwise video about getting started in UNrealWwise Spatial Audio acoustics they talk about using the new Spatial Audio Volumes in 2023 wwise to set up reverb and ambient zones. They show that you can nest one inside another, and just set the room priority to make the smaller nested one take over the ambient and reverb properties of a space (blocking out the ambience of the bigger zone) In practice working with them I have found that it will not cancel out the ambience of the bigger zone around it. Just wondering if anyone else has had the same problem and figured out a work around. Thanks

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I have a random container with bird noises to add to my ambience in my project, it's nice, but it feels a bit flat. In real life, birds would move about (and so would the noises they make). I want these birds to be randomly panned but I'm not sure how to do this. I don't want to individually pan each sfx object in the container.

Any advice? :D

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I don’t have a clue with these but I wanna get a few for making a little make shift area for doing little bits of recording and wondered what brands people suggest?

I'm trying to ask any community I can find about this. I'd appreciate any help or idea given. Here goes nothing.

So I've started having this problem just recently and the same setup from 3-4 weeks ago was working correctly. I don't know what changed but I didn't change the implementation logic in any way myself. I'm using Wwise 2022.1.6 and Unity 2022.3.17f1. I also tested this problem on Wwise 2022.1.18 and 2024.1.1, and surprisingly the latter worked especially slow although it's not the main problem here. All versions resulted in the same way more or less.

The problem I have is that Wwise doesn't care about prepared game syncs. When I prepare the event it loads all the media that is connected to it without waiting for a game sync to be prepared. The game sync preparation setting in Unity is enabled. My general structure is something like this:
* I have a single music switch container which contains several music playlist containers. I control this switch container via a few state groups. Combinations of these states point to specific playlist containers. Nothing unusual here.
* I have a single event that is configured to play the switch container. I choose the track to be played using the states.
* The event and structure data is contained within a single soundbank. Media is unchecked and generated as loose media.

Now, my music implementation logic in Unity side is as follows:
* In my script, I load the bank that contains the event-structure data through AkBankManager.LoadBank().
* Based on some specific logic I prepare the relevant game syncs with AkSoundEngine.PrepareGameSyncs().
* After all relevant game syncs are loaded successfully, I load the single event connected to the switch container using AkSoundEngine.PrepareEvent().
* All of these are done synchronously and in order.

By common logic, this should only load the relevant audio sources and leave the rest even though others are also in the same container. And as I said earlier this is what happened before but not now. The result I get currently is:
* In the profiler I see the prepared game syncs and events properly. So they function correctly to some extent.
* But for whatever reason as if the game sync preparation setting is not set to true, all of the media that resides in the music switch container gets loaded regardless of whether the relevant game syncs are prepared or not.
* Even when I try to comment out all game sync preparation in the scripts. The event preparation alone still gets all of the media loaded.
* Therefore the main problem here is that Wwise completely ignores the game sync preparation and only focuses on event preparation. Again, game sync preparation is enabled.

To debug this problem. I have tried:
* Deactivating the game sync preparation setting. Re-enabling it. And all of the other combinations possible.
* Re-generating soundbanks after manually deleting them.
* Trying different combinations of game syncs, creating new ones, excluding the old ones. Binding them all again.
* Creating a completely new blank Unity project. Integrating different versions of Wwise into that project. Creating a similar structure and logic for testing.

Every solution I've tried got me the same result. I assume that this is some kind of a bug but I can't seem to find any solution to this in any way. I don't want to have to resort to micromanaging soundbanks just because a very practical and logical workflow doesn't function properly.

Super excited to hear from anyone about this problem. And my thanks beforehand.

Just wondering if anyone’s stumbled across any unorthodox approaches to designing magic sounds?

Can be at the recording end, editing or implementation.

Just looking to try new things

This is semi-rant, semi-discussion, but since UCS is becoming more common, and potentially the industry standard, I figured why not discuss it. I’m at the point where I actually kind of hate it.

Some sounds are really easy to categorise, but there’s so much ambiguity in it, and a lot of sounds just don’t fit neatly into any category. Maybe that’s the point, but I feel like I spend way too much time scrolling through all the categories and still being unsure (I do have tools that will search through them for me, but that isn’t helpful when you have to keep guessing what is and isn’t a category, hence the scrolling). I get the impression it has post production in film in mind more than games.

What is everyone else’s thoughts on this?

Hi everyone, I'm at the end of Lesson 2 and when I generate a soundbank using the new "Combat" Music Playlist Container I'm still hearing the old music from Lesson 1. In the profiler I see the "Music" event is triggered normally and see a message that says "Scheduled segment transition from "<Combat-A>" to "<Combat-A>" using rule 1..." then error messages reading "Selected Child Not Available".

From what I read on the forums it seems this affects more than a few people, and deleting and reinstalling the course materials as suggested by Audiokinetic support didn't work. Is it something I can fix on my end? I feel like I accidentally skipped a tiny step somewhere.

Hi there! Does anyone use ReaWwise with Apple Silicon? It works fine on a Windows machine, but on a Mac, it seems like it can’t connect to the Wwise project. Has anyone else faced this problem?

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Hi guys,

I'm a music teacher with extensive experience in audio engineering. I'd like to make a career change in to audio for games (lifelong gamer as most are) but don't know where to start - what are the common systems that I should take a look at and start learning? Do I need to know code? Any free web resources for me to take a look at?

It's mainly the implementation of audio assets that is holding me back from applying to jobs. Sound design isn't really the issue, it's putting this in to the product for clients

Thanks and best,

I want to make video game soundtracks but I have no clue where to start, ideally I want to start with an indie game studio rather than jumping right into the big leagues but I am not sure how to put my name out there and I don’t even know where to find indie studios. Any tips?

I want to get into video game audio. It would include animal sounds, hitting rocks together, rain, footsteps on snow, swords clashing, rustling of armor, etc.

Zoom F3 has two XLR inputs, while Zoom F6 has six, and it costs twice as much.
Are 6 XLR inputs only useful for recording a rock rock band?
How can I benefit from more than XLR inputs?
If I were to go for an F6 I would need to save money for the next 6 months, which I'm willing to do if it's a real game changer.
Thanks for reading.

Hey! I would like to experiment ambisonics reverb with Wwise in a FPS game but I'm facing some issues : The reverb I'm using (3rd order) is not turning when I'm turning my head in the game (I'm using headphones).
Do I need to necessarily "binauralize" the signal to hear rotation ?
It seems weird to me as I already use some ambisonics sounds (.wav, not IR) and I clearly hear rotation in this case without binauralization.
My reverb is set on an auxiliary bus with a 3rd order channel configuration and the parent buses are set to "as parent" until the master bus which is set to "Defined by System" (in my case Headphones).
My convolution reverb shareset is set to 16 channels Fuma.
I also tried to activate "Windows Headphones" but it does not solve the problem.
Does anyone have an idea of ​​the origin of my problem?

I'm basically wondering what the best way to have access to the game is. In Wwise 101 you capture gameplay from the Cube demo and attach events after finding the corresponding game calls. What are the best practices for achieving this workflow with a solo developer using Godot? I'm very new to all of this, I'm a music composer recently familiar with Wwise and I have a friend who is willing to let me figure out how all this collaboration is supposed to work. Thanks for any help you might be able to provide!