Audiokinetic Wwise Explained

Audiokinetic Wwise
Audiokinetic Wwise
Author:	Audiokinetic
Developer:	Audiokinetic
Discontinued:	No
Latest Release Version:	2023.1^[1]
Programming Language:	C++
Platform:	Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation Vita, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone 8, Xbox 360, Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Genre:	Game middleware Game development tool Digital audio workstation

Wwise (Wave Works Interactive Sound Engine) is Audiokinetic's software for interactive media and video games, available for free to non-commercial users^{[2] [3]} and under license for commercial video game developers. It features an audio authoring tool and a cross-platform sound engine.^[4]

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:^[5]

Adoption by video games

Titles^{[6] [7]} which have used Audiokinetic include:

Commercial game engine integration

Wwise is intended to be compatible with proprietary and commercial engines.^[8]

• Unreal Engine 3
• Unreal Engine 4
• Unity
• Cocos2d-x
• CryEngine^[9]
• 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• Open 3D Engine (which superseded Amazon Lumberyard)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 Mímica e Teatro Oficina Versus, with music by Pedro Macedo Camacho

See also

• FMOD
• OpenAL
• Sound design
• Video game development

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wwise 2023.1 What's New. Audiokinetic Blog. 2023-07-06.
2. Web site: Review: Wwise For Game Audio. ask.audio.
3. Web site: Wwise Free for Indies Too!. designingsound.org.
4. Web site: Wwise: Smart audio. Audiokinetic. 9 July 2015.
5. Web site: Audiokinetic | Supported Platforms. Audiokinetic. 2 November 2023.
6. Web site: Powered by WWise. Audiokinetic. 15 August 2024.
7. Web site: Hall of Fame Audiokinetic. 2021-04-21. www.audiokinetic.com.
8. Web site: Wwise Integration - Audiokinetic. www.audiokinetic.com.
9. Web site: Implementing Audio using Wwise - CRYENGINE 3 Manual - Documentation. docs.cryengine.com.