{"id":118,"date":"2016-11-16T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procedural-audio.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2017-11-28T02:31:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T02:31:43","slug":"quickaudio-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/procedural-audio.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/quickaudio-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickAudio 1.1 is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are happy to announce the release of the QuickAudio 1.1 update.<\/em><\/p>\n

This new version updates game audio middleware support to the latest versions of Audiokinetic\u2019s Wwise, Firelight Technologies\u2019 FMOD Studio and CRI Middleware\u2019s ADX2 – while staying compatible with older versions in case you didn\u2019t make the jump yet.<\/p>\n

The middleware versions now supported are summarized in this table:<\/p>\n

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If you are not familiar with QuickAudio yet, check \u00a0this video<\/a>\u00a0to learn how it can dramatically improve the productivity of anybody dealing with sound files.<\/p>\n

You can download the QuickAudio 1.0 demo here<\/a> and the 1.1 update here<\/a>\u00a0(valid for both the commercial and the demo versions).<\/p>\n

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\nConfiguring the export parameters<\/strong><\/p>\n

To configure the default parameters of the export feature, right-click on the QuickAudio button on the Windows taskbar and select \u201cPreferences\u2026<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0Click on the second tab (\u201cExporting<\/strong>\u201d) and at the top choose the game audio middleware you want to use (“Wwise<\/strong>“, “FMOD Studio<\/strong>” or “ADX2<\/strong>“), then select the correct version number on the right.<\/p>\n

Browse to your game audio project. Once it is selected, it will be analyzed and the other controls in the window will become available.<\/p>\n

For Wwise, you will be able to choose the destination work unit, the container\u2019s name and its type, as well as the default volume, pitch and lowpass cutoff for the assets. In the case of FMOD Studio, you can select the type of events (single, multiple or scatterer) to generate, in what folder to do it and their default parameters. You can also indicate in what bank the raw assets should be copied. Finally, for ADX2, the name of the cues to create and their type, as well as the parent cue sheet and the default cue parameters can all be specified.<\/p>\n

In all cases, you can also enter the path to the authoring tool and instruct QuickAudio to launch it after export.<\/p>\n

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Adding assets to your game audio project<\/strong><\/p>\n

To add samples automatically to your game audio project, select the sound files in Windows Explorer.\u00a0 Right-click and select \u201ctsugi QuickAudio<\/strong>\u201d in the popup menu, then click on \u201cExport\u2026<\/strong>\u201d Finally, choose the game audio middleware you want to export to. At this point a window will appear, allowing you to override the default export settings if needed. Click \u201cOK<\/strong>\u201d and the samples will be exported to the game audio project, the containers, events or cues of the right types will be automatically created and the chosen parameters will assigned.<\/p>\n

Also, if you checked that option in the preferences, the authoring tool of your game audio middleware will be launched and your project loaded, so that you can easily check the result of your export.<\/p>\n

Here we show the process with Wwise:<\/p>\n