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Game Audio Development with Unity 5.X

By : Micheal Lanham

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Game Audio Development with Unity 5.X

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By: Micheal Lanham

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Overview of this book

Game Audio is one of the key components in making a game successful and it is quite popular in the gaming industry. So if you are a game developer with an eye on capturing the gamer market then this book is the right solution for you. In this book, we will take you through a step by step journey which will teach you to implement original and engaging soundtracks and SFX with Unity 5.x. You will be firstly introduced to the basics of game audio and sound development in Unity. After going through the core topics of audio development: audio sources, spatial sound, mixing, effects, and more; you will then have the option of delving deeper into more advanced topics like dynamic and adaptive audio. You will also learn to develop dynamic and adaptive audio using the Unity Audio Mixer. Further, you will learn how professional third party tools like FMOD are used for audio development in Unity. You will then go through the creation of sound visualization techniques and creating your own original music using the simple yet powerful audio workstation Reaper. Lastly, you will go through tips, techniques and strategies to help you optimize game audio performance or troubleshoot issues. At the end of the book, you’ll have gained the skills to implement professional sound and music. Along with a good base knowledge audio and music principles you can apply across a range of other game development tools.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Introducing Game Audio with Unity

Introduction to game audio

Getting started with unity

Importing audio into unity

Audio sources and listeners

3D sound and spatial blending

Summary

Scripting Audio

Introduction to scripting in Unity

Building a musical keyboard

Weapons and sound

Randomizing audio

Background music

Summary

Introduction to the Audio Mixer

Introducing the Unity Audio mixer

Shaping audio with effects

The master mixer and controlling signal flow

Routing audio signals in the mixer to effects

The duck volume effect

Summary

Advanced Audio Mixing

Recording audio changes with snapshots

Audio Mixer scripting with parameters

A dynamic audio wind effect

Creating environmental audio zones

Dynamic music mixing

Summary

Using the Audio Mixer for Adaptive Audio

Introducing adaptive audio

Building adaptive audio cues

Creating mood with adaptive music

Vertical remixing with the Audio Mixer

Footsteps with adaptive sound

Summary

Introduction to FMOD

Getting started with FMOD Studio

Back to the basics

Effects and mixing

Mixing in a reverb effect

Parameters, snapshots, and triggers

Summary

FMOD for Dyanmic and Adaptive Audio

Dynamic wind and environmental zones

Scripting with FMOD

Revisiting the footsteps example

Adaptive music with FMOD

Transition timelines and stingers

Summary

Visualizing Audio in Games

Analyzing audio with Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) windows

Examining an audio visualizer

Visualization performance and windowing

Audio-driven lighting

Microphone-driven visualizations

Summary

Character Lip Syncing and Vocals

Real-time lip syncing

Speech and phonemes

Blend shape animation

Real-time character lip sync

Recording vocals

Summary

Composing Music

Getting started with Reaper

MIDI and virtual instruments

Basic music theory

Enhancing the composition

Recording music and vocals

Summary

Audio Performance and Troubleshooting

Audio performance considerations

Profiling performance with Unity

Audio optimization tips and tricks for Unity

FMOD performance and optimization

Audio troubleshooting

Summary

Advanced Audio Mixing

In the previous chapter, we devoted most of our time to introduce the Audio Mixer and understand the capabilities of having a digital audio workstation in Unity. You learned the basic functionality of the mixer and how to use effects and route signals. While, we did look at a few recipes of using effects and the mixer, not much of what we did in the last chapter was applied to practical game development. Seeing how something works when it is applied to a real-world game development task or problem, reinforces a recipe or theory. Therefore, in this chapter, we will explore practical and advanced examples of how a mixer can be used.

For this chapter, we will spend time working through more practical and advanced examples that can be applied to a number of game development tasks. We will cover the following topics in this chapter: