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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]

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced the acquisition of the company on January 8, 2019.^[5][6]

Description[edit]

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[edit]

Wwise supports the following platforms:^[7]

Adoption by video games[edit]

Recent titles^[8] which have used Audiokinetic include:

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• Borderlands 2(Vita), Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
• Firewatch^[9]

Commercial Game Engine Integration[edit]

Wwise is intended to be compatible with proprietary and commercial engines.^[10]

• CryEngine^[11]

Technology Partners[edit]

Audiokinetic partners with other audio developers to bring their audio technology to the gaming industry. Partnership add-ons for Wwise include:

• Astound Astound Sound^[12]
• Audio Audio Ease
• Auro 3d Auro Technologies
• CrankCase CrankCase Audio
• GameBase
• McDSP^[13]
• AMD TrueAudio – there is an audio plug-in for Wwise which offloads computation to the TrueAudio DSP

Theatre[edit]

Free video effects for mac desktop. 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^[14][15]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Wwise 2019.1 is live!'. Audiokinetic Blog. 2019-04-02.
2. ^'Review: Wwise For Game Audio'. ask.audio.
3. ^'Wwise Free for Indies Too!'. designingsound.org.
4. ^'Wwise: Smart audio'(PDF). Audiokinetic. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
5. ^https://www.audiokinetic.com/about/news/
6. ^https://www.sie.com/en/corporate/release/2019/190109.html
7. ^'Audiokinetic Downloads'. Audiokinetic. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
8. ^'Customers'. Audiokinetic. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
9. ^Rodkin, Jake (March 2016). Level Design Workshop: Building Firewatch in Unity. Game Developers Conference.
10. ^Inc., Audiokinetic. 'Wwise Integration - Audiokinetic'. www.audiokinetic.com.
11. ^'Implementing Audio using Wwise - CRYENGINE 3 Manual - Documentation'. docs.cryengine.com.
12. ^'HugeDomains.com - GenaudioInc.com is for sale (Genaudio Inc)'. www.genaudioinc.com.
13. ^'McDSP Adds RTAS Support to Chrome Tone & Synthesizer One'.
14. ^dnoticias, Newspaper news about Dom Duardos from Gil Vicente, retrieved 2011-01-15
15. ^[Audiokinetic], Audiokinetic interview with Pedro Macedo Camacho(PDF), retrieved 2011-01-15

External links[edit]

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