Audiokinetic Wwise

Wwise (Wave Works Interactive Sound Engine) is Audiokinetic's software for interactive media and video games, available for free to non-commercial users and under license for commercial video game developers. It features an audio authoring tool and a cross-platform sound engine.

Description

The Wwise authoring application uses a graphical interface to centralize all aspects of audio creation. The functionality in this interface allows sound designers to:

Import audio files for use in video games
Apply audio plug-in effects
Mix in real-time
Define game states
Simulate audio environments
Manage sound integration
Apply the Windows Spatial Audio API, or Dolby Atmos.

Wwise allows for on-the-fly audio authoring directly in game. Over a local network, users can create, audition, and tweak sound effects and subtle sound behaviors while the game is being played on another host.

Wwise also includes the following components:

Cross-platform sound engine (Wwise Authoring)
Multichannel Creator (allows creation of multichannel audio)
Plug-in architecture for source, effect, and source control plug-ins, part of Wwise Launcher
SoundFrame API
Wave Viewer (allows for sampling of WAV audio files)

Supported operating systems

Wwise supports the following platforms:

Adoption by video games

Titles which have used Audiokinetic include:

Commercial game engine integration

Wwise is intended to be compatible with proprietary and commercial engines.

Unreal Engine 3
Unreal Engine 4
Unity
Cocos2d-x
CryEngine
Orochi 3
Gamebryo
Fox Engine
Autodesk Stingray
Open 3D Engine (which superseded Amazon Lumberyard)

Theatre

One play has used Wwise and its Interactive Music capabilities for live performance:

Dom Duardos by Gil Vicente, co-produced by Companhia Contigo Teatro and Grupo de MÃÂmica e Teatro Oficina Versus, with music by Pedro Macedo Camacho

References

External links

Alexander Brandon, "Audio Middleware, Part 2: More Contenders in the Emerging Field" Mix Magazine, 04-01-2007. Retrieved on 04-13-2007.