http://kb.gowwise.com en-us http://kb.gowwise.com ActiveKB NX support@audiokinetic.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:30:15 CDT 20 http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/227/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/227/ GlossaryMain Release: The initial release of the Game, without DLC.DLC: Downloadable content, released after the main release.Package: A package in the Wwise File PackagerSoundBank: a soundbank in ... AK Bernard Rodrigue Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:54:02 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/224/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/224/ In most cases, sounds that are farther from the listener are less important to play than sounds that are closer to it. In situations where a lot of sounds are triggered by the game, using th ... AK Simon Ashby Tue, 18 May 2010 20:06:54 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/223/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/223/ For example, let’s say that you want to lower the volume by 3dB for a group of objects that all have different volumes; you simply have to input “3-” as the volume value in the Multi Editor and al ... AK Simon Ashby Tue, 18 May 2010 19:53:04 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/25/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/25/ The following list gives you some additional information, requirements, and limitations that you should be aware of before using the crossfade transition within a random or sequence container: T ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:02:49 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/209/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/209/ Cropping PCM sounds in your wave editor on zero-crossing does not guarantee that transitions in Wwise will be glitch-free, because once they are converted, there is no guarantee that these zero- ... AK Xavier Buffoni Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:01:36 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/203/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/203/ The playback limit, specified in the Advanced Settings tab of the Property Editor, permits one to limit the number of playing instances at any point in the hierarchy. If, for example, you set an ... AK Xavier Buffoni Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:36:34 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/204/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/204/ Be careful with how you use playback limits with interactive music. Playback limits are specified anywhere in the hierarchy, but end up being applied to "sounds". In interactive music, the equiv ... AK Xavier Buffoni Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:35:33 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/202/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/202/ Sound priority is specified in the Advanced Settings tab of the property editor. It plays a role in determining which sounds are stopped and which are not when the playback limit is reached. Yo ... AK Xavier Buffoni Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:31:04 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/198/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/198/ If your segment does not play some audio clips that are displayed in the Segment Editor correctly, looping them when it shouldn't, it may be because they loop around looping cues that are embedded ... AK Xavier Buffoni Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:18:53 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/186/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/186/ This article provides you with a brief overview of how the LFE channel is managed in Wwise. Some background information is also provided along with some best practices for LFE and bass managemen ... AK Simon Ashby Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:53:33 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/173/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/173/ Wwise can import media files with up to 6 different audio channels, ranging from 0.1 to 5.1. The 0.1 or LFE channel is a totally independent channel that must be imported into Wwise as a x.1 m ... AK Alexandre Lessard Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:41:53 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/169/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/169/ Marker information is stored in the header of the audio file. In order to be parsed successfully by the sound engine, the header must fit completely within the first streaming buffer. Thus, the ... AK Simon Ashby Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:34:59 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/166/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/166/ Are newer versions of the tool backward compatible with projects made with an older tool?> New Wwise versions are compatible with older Wwise projects. If you open a project created with an old ... AK Benoit Beauchemin Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:21:13 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/157/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/157/ Wwise puts under source control the files that are essential to the project: - Work units (.wproj and .wvu). - Audio source files (.wav from the Originals folder). Other files that are either temp ... AK Martin Dufour Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:38:18 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/139/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/139/ In the Project Settings' General tab, under Workgroup, you can select the source control plug-in you want to use with the current project. Wwise includes a Perforce plug-in, and a Subversion plu ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:23:26 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/64/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/64/ This document provides a quick overview of the Vorbis Wwise conversion plug-in, the signification of encoding parameters, general remarks on decoding support, etc. Vorbis conversion plug-in Ove ... AK Francois Thibault Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:53:28 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/197/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/197/ Compression formats that exist on all platforms, like PCM, Vorbis and ADPCM, can only be played as "non-original" in the Wwise Transport view when the current platform (top-left drop-down menu) is ... AK Xavier Buffoni Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:47:28 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/56/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/56/ Sound in Wwise will sound the same than in game, when playing with the right platform activated.For instance, if you set the sound to be encoded in Vorbis on a given platform to a given sample r ... AK Alexandre Lessard Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:39:23 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/53/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/53/ No, it is not currently possible. This is something that has been requested by others customers and that could be considered for a future release, but it is not in our road map yet, because the ... AK Alexandre Lessard Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:31:32 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/50/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/50/ Bypass Effect PropertiesIn the Wwise authoring application, there are bypass checkboxes for every effect on every Wwise object. These check boxes represent the initial state of the bypass when l ... AK Alexandre Lessard Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:40:29 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/48/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/48/ For this example, we want to create a rapid-fire machine gun type sound using both a single gun shot sound and a single “Play” event action. Import your single gun shot sound into Wwise as a S ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:18:28 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/43/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/43/ The following is always calculated for each voice, even when it is virtual: Positioning, calculations, voice priority and volumes are still computed as they are required to determine if the v ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:11:45 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/26/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/26/ Sample accurate transitions match up the samples of the out-going and in-coming sounds of the random/sequence containers within your project. By using sample accurate transitions, you can create s ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:32:02 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/39/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/39/ The DC offset represents the percentage away from zero amplitude that a signal lies. In most cases, because it is problematic for sounds, the DC offset should be removed. If you choose to maintain ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:21:41 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/38/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/38/ The Integrity Report (in the Project menu, or Shift-G) scans your Wwise project for missing files or events, plug-in issues and the like. As a general rule, it is a good idea to run the Integr ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:20:18 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/31/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/31/ There are a few reasons why you might not be able to use an RTPC to map positioning properties to specific game parameters. Here are some things you might want to check: Your Wwise object's po ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:48:52 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/34/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/34/ This article describes a way to ignore certain audio objects for a specific language without having to create dummy wav files. This workaround involves using the platform exclusion feature in Wwis ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:48:11 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/33/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/33/ Music objects can also subscribe to state groups, so when a state changes, the properties of the music objects will be affected. Interactive music must address how and when the music object will ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:46:51 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/20/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/20/ You can optimize audio content per platform in the following ways: Include/exclude objects used per platform with the platform exclusion check box. This is perfect to save memory space; for ex ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:34:47 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/13/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/13/ What is a Listener? A listener represents a microphone position in the game so 3D sounds can be assigned to the speakers to mimic a real 3D environment. This is done by mapping the game object ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:57:33 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/12/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/12/ Unregistering a game object does not stop the sounds that are attached to it. This is usually interesting for game objects that emit one shot sounds, as unregistering them will not cause unpleasan ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:50:26 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/196/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/196/ In older versions of Wwise, inspecting an object in the Wwise tool (that is, adding it to the Transport) while it is connected to a game would sometimes stop in-game playback of all instances of t ... AK Xavier Buffoni Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:32:51 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/194/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/194/ Provided that your plug-in XML and Dll files are properly located in the Wwise bin/plugins folder, and that the CanBeInsertOnBusses and CanBeInsertOnAudioObjects field in the XML plug-in descrip ... AK Francois Thibault Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:40:34 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/159/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/159/ Obtaining random variations in loop start and end location is possible using the following suggested workarounds.The solution differs whether you want to implement this in the interactive music ... AK Francois Thibault Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:02:28 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/172/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/172/ The layout in Wwise was made for a setting of 96 DPI. If your Windows display settings are not set this way, the result can look like this:To fix this problem:- Go in the Windows Control Panel- D ... AK Mathieu Jean Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:10:37 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/168/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/168/ It is be because your project contains switch containers having children not listed in any of the switch possibility, making this sound impossible to play. It is then impossible to "exclude" them ... AK Alexandre Lessard Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:45:26 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/19/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/19/ Scenario Imagine a weapon that has two elements: An individual fire sound for every shot fired (several a second), and A barrel “spin up”, “spin loop”, and “spin down” sound. Triggering ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:35:30 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/153/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/153/ CRASH when you display the Game Object 3D Viewer or the Game Object Profiler Layout. If Wwise crashes when you display the Game Object 3D Viewer or the Game Object Profiler Layout, it may be ... Wed, 28 May 2008 20:57:49 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/140/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/140/ How can I edit different Wwise objects without loosing my selection in the transport control? To force a Wwise object in the transport, you can use the "Pin" option. Once a Wwise object is pinne ... AK Simon Ashby Wed, 28 May 2008 20:53:58 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/123/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/123/ Not directly, however the "State" game syncs mechanism can be used as your "Mix templates". In the Game Syncs tab, simply create a State group (i.e. MixTemplate) and the different states you need ... AK Jacques Deveau Wed, 28 May 2008 20:49:11 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/46/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/46/ This assumes you have read the following article: Controlling audio content using RTPC's By modifying the above example slightly, a Wwise object can be played when a specific RTPC value or range ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Wed, 28 May 2008 20:36:29 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/45/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/45/ Creating Doppler effects with Wwise There is currently no built-in Doppler effect in Wwise. You can however create Doppler type effects by applying RTPC (Real Time Parameter Control) to the pitc ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Wed, 28 May 2008 20:21:39 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/28/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/28/ The Low Pass Filter (LPF) is a recursive filter that attenuates high frequencies. It can be applied to Wwise objects and busses at all levels within your hierarchy. It can also be used to help def ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 27 May 2008 21:01:24 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/22/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/22/ States are a great way to alter the properties of sounds to reflect the changes that are occurring in game. For example, you can modify the properties of your sounds by creating a "Stun" state w ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 27 May 2008 20:58:19 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/156/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/156/ Bug Description: If you apply a rendered effect to a parent object, such as an Actor-Mixer, that contains one or more sounds, a real-time version of the effect will be applied on top of the rend ... AK James Duff Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:55:46 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/155/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/155/ This is a know issue in all currently available versions of Wwise that the transition tester does not simulate properly all transitions for Music switch containers. The workaround for now is to s ... AK Alexandre Lessard Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:32:42 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/62/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/62/ Dynamics processing plug-ins provided with Wwise include: Wwise Compressor Wwise Expander Wwise Peak Limiter This document provides a quick overview of the behavi ... AK Francois Thibault Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:39:01 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/124/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/124/ At the moment, it is probably easier to simply bypass Wwise for the FaceFX UI and let it use DirectSound or OpenAL directly. During gameplay, you can rely on notifications from Filename Markers (e ... AK Jacques Deveau Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:50:23 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/122/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/122/ To integrate your lip-sync solution I would suggest using our marker notifications. This is usually the most efficient way to do it. Markers are identifiers that are inserted in an audio file and ... AK Jacques Deveau Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:47:48 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/121/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/121/ It will position your source where you want it, and the spread factor will make it appear more or less wide (equally on each side of its actual position). Again here 100% spread means that your mo ... AK Jacques Deveau Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:45:33 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/49/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/49/ Wwise does not currently support tempo map inside a single segment. But, using the interactive music hierarchies and transition mechanisms, the composer has all the necessary workarounds to eas ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:33:57 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/47/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/47/ This article explains how Real-time Parameter Controls can be used to determine what audio elements are played by a container in your Wwise project. For the purposes of this article, we will u ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:55:18 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/44/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/44/ Most of the keyboard shortcuts don't work when the Game Object 3D viewer has the focus (the title bar is in pale gray). To get access to the shortcuts, give the focus to another view before exe ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:25:56 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/41/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/41/ The AK::SoundEngine::LoadBank() method might return AK_Fail even if the low-level IO's base and language-specific paths have been properly set. This error's most common cause is that certain plu ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:55:28 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/40/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/40/ You can quickly reset a property value to its default setting by Ctrl+clicking the property’s text box or slider. For example, if you Ctrl+click the Pitch text box or slider, the property value ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:54:28 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/37/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/37/ You may notice that there are clicks when transitioning between a one-shot, unlooped pure tone created by the Tone Generator and other sounds. To avoid the clicks, apply a 5ms fade in and fade o ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:51:17 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/36/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/36/ Problem : Compressor/Expander does not seem to kick in as prescribed by its threshold parameter Explanation : Compressor threshold parameter is in fact a threshold per channel. In unlinked m ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:49:35 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/32/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/32/ In order to save CPU usage at runtime and to use the same model for low pass filter that we are using for Volume, Pitch and LFE (which is relative through the hierarchy), the low pass filter pro ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:30:35 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/30/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/30/ When performing the following tasks, you may lose or reset the original positioning information that you set: Moving a sound (Voice or SFX) out of a container Copying a sound from a contai ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:10:40 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/29/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/29/ The following use cases will demonstrate how the Playback Limit and Playback Priority features work in Wwise. For the purposes of these use cases, the following sound structure will be used: Use ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:08:07 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/27/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/27/ Trigger rate transitions define a rate at which sounds within a random or sequence container will be triggered. By creating a steady stream of sounds one right after the other, you can simulat ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:00:29 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/24/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/24/ If a sound within a continuous container falls below the volume threshold and the option is set to Kill voice, only the current sound is killed, and not the container itself. When the current vo ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:29:04 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/23/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/23/ If you are having trouble selecting the horizontal sliders that are used to adjust property values, you can click and hold the mouse button in the associated text box to display the larger ver ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:27:54 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/21/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/21/ To help optimize memory usage, here is some useful information about organizing objects by properties. It is good practice to organize your sounds under a common actor-mixer or container to share ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:41:45 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/18/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/18/ Scenario Let's say you are creating a first-person shooter game where the player experiences a temporary loss of hearing when a flash-bang grenade goes off nearby. How can I temporarily affect ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:38:09 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/17/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/17/ Scenario Let's say you have a random container with three sounds (“Hit1”, “Hit2” and “Hit3”), but in some cases, you want nothing to be played instead of one of the sounds. In this case, you ca ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:36:25 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/15/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/15/ Since the floating Randomizer and Transport views never become the active view, the Expand/Collapse view or Close view keyboard shortcuts don’t work for these views. You can, however, use the ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:33:02 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/14/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/14/ The following use cases demonstrate how you can use the multiple listener functionality to achieve certain effects in your game. Use Case 1: Forcing Panning to Follow Split Screen Position Let ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:27:45 GMT http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/9/ http://kb.gowwise.com/questions/9/ When importing audio files into Wwise, you can do any one of the following: Import new audio files Replace existing audio files Import localized versions of audio files By default, Wwise ... AK Audiokinetic Admin Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:58:07 GMT