Description

• Add audio to your game using FMOD and wrap it in your own code
• Understand the core concepts of audio programming and work with audio at different levels of abstraction
• Work with a technology that is widely considered to be the industry standard in audio middlewar

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1: Audio Concepts

   • Sound waves
   • Analog and digital audio
   • Multi-channel audio
   • Audio file formats
   • Summary

2. Chapter 2: Audio Playback

   • Understanding FMOD
   • Installing FMOD Ex Programmer's API
   • Creating and managing the audio system
   • Loading and streaming audio files
   • Playing sounds
   • Checking for errors
   • Project 1 – building a simple audio manager
   • Class definition
   • Initialization and destruction
   • Loading or streaming sounds
   • Playing sounds
   • A note about the code samples

   • Summary

3. Chapter 3: Audio Control

   • The channel handle
   • Controlling the playback
   • Controlling the volume
   • Controlling the pitch
   • Controlling the panning
   • Grouping channels together
   • Controlling groups of channels
   • Project 2 – improving the audio manager
   • Class definition
   • Initialization and destruction
   • Loading songs and sound effects
   • Playing and stopping sound effects
   • Playing and stopping songs
   • Controlling the master volume of each category

   • Summary

    

4. Chapter 4: 3D Audio

   • Positional audio
   • Positional audio in FMOD
   • Creating an audio source
   • Setting the audio source's position and velocity
   • Setting the audio source's direction
   • Setting the audio source's range
   • Setting the audio listener's properties
   • Integration with a game

   • Reverb
   • Reverb in FMOD
   • Creating a reverb object
   • Setting reverb properties
   • Setting reverb position and radius
   • Setting the default ambient reverb

   • Obstruction and occlusion
   • Obstruction and occlusion in FMOD

   • Effects
   • Effects in FMOD
   • Example 1 – time stretching
   • Example 2 – simple radio effect

   • Summary

    

5. Chapter 5: Intelligent Audio

   • Audio files versus sound events
   • Introducing the FMOD Designer
   • Simple events
   • Examples of simple events
   • Avoiding repetitive sound effects
   • Creating a footsteps sound loop
   • Creating a breaking glass sound effect
   • Creating an ambient track of singing birds

   • Multi-track events
   • Examples of multi-track events
   • Creating an interactive footsteps sound loop
   • Simulating the sound of a car engine
   • Creating a complex ambient track of a forest

   • Interactive music
   • The vertical approach (re-orchestration)
   • The horizontal approach (re-sequencing)

   • Calling sound events from the game code
   • Summary

    

6. Chapter 6: Low-level Audio

   • Representing audio data
   • Playing audio data
   • Loading a sound
   • Playing a sound
   • Pausing a sound
   • Looping a sound
   • Changing volume
   • Changing pitch
   • Changing panning
   • Mixing multiple sounds
   • Implementing a delay effect
   • Synthesizing a sound
   • Summary