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

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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:

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