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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

By: Micheal Lanham

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.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Foreword
Preface

Getting started with Reaper


There are numerous music composition tools that range from free basic tools that will allow you to quickly and easily compose music to full-fledged pricey professional tools that will let you do everything else and more. Reaper falls on the more high end of professional tools, but it is priced very reasonably and provides for a substantial trial period of 60 days. It only makes sense then that you learn to work with a more capable tool. If we started with a free basic tool, it is likely you would quickly outgrow it. Let's get started by downloading and installing Reaper by following the instructions as follows:

  1. Open you web browser to http://www.reaper.fm/.
  2. At the top of the page, click on the Download Reaper link to go to the downloads page.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select the version Windows or Mac and 32 or 64 bit, that best matches your operating system and click on the link to start downloading the software.

Note

Linux installation of Reaper is supported...