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THE GAME CHANGER FOR AUDIO PROFESSIONALS


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IntroducingtheGame Changer

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ProfessionalsIntroducing FMOD Studio the worlds most sophisticated game audio toolkit.Open your ears to a new world of creative soundscapes with enhanced

performance and an incredibly polished & efficient workflow.

FMOD Studio is the authoring tool and run-time engine that audio professionals

and management alike have all been waiting for!


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FMOD The Industry standard game audio toolkit for over a decade

Built on our already robust and mature technology, FMOD Studio brings a wide range of feature,

interface and performance enhancements that will dramatically increase your creative potential and

radically streamline your workflow.

FMOD has been the industry standard game

audio toolkit almost since the inception of the

modern games industry.

Users of our products include industry giants

such as:

Activision Blizzard

Disney

Microsoft

Sony

Ubisoft

THQ

Gearbox

Unity

Crytek

Trinigy

and many more

It has been used in classic titles such as:

World of Warcraft

Forza Motorsport series

Crysis 1 & 2

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Starcraft II

L.A. Noire

Batman : Arkham Asylum

Bioshock 1 and 2

Witcher 2

Dragon Age

Need for Speed: Shift

The Sims 3

Little Big Planet 1 & 2

Alan Wake

Just Cause 2

FMOD Studio

FMOD Studio supersedes our incredibly

popular FMOD Designer as the next

generation of authoring tool and run-time

engine.

Built on our already robust and maturetechnology, FMOD Studio brings a wide

range of feature, interface and performance

enhancements that will dramatically increase

your creative potential and radically streamline

your workflow.

In a major breakthrough, we have introduced

a Pro Audio approach new interfaces have

been created including a comprehensive mixer

deck with hardware control surface support;

a new multi-track editor and music system;a profiling and audio capture interface; multi

user collaboration interfaces features that

professional audio developers have long been

used to in film and TV, but have absent in the

games industry.

This means that, for the first time ever, game

audio software is easily accessible to audio

professionals familiar with Digital Audio

Workstations who will quickly grasp the new

interface and revel in our new and improvedfeature set.

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Molecule and published by Sony Computer

Entertainment across multiple PlayStation

platforms.


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FMOD Studio Overview

FMOD Studio is an audio content creation tool for games, with a focus on a Pro Audio approach.

It has an entirely new interface that will be more familiar to those using professional Digital Audio

Workstations than existing game audio tools and is loaded with new features.

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New Digital Audio Workstation inspired multi-track music and

event editing interface

The enhanced interface is a major contributor to the creation of superior game audio. A familiar pro

audio interface will allow the creation of slicker, more professional results in a fraction of the time.

A powerful multi-track event editor, giving you both flexibility and control.

The streamlined interface cleans up your screen real estate, letting you focus solely on creating great audio. The new multi-track editor allows you

to create more complex and varied events with minimal effort and less resources. Music and event editing has been merged and a new effect deck

allows you to add Pro level effects and control the output of the entire event at a glance.

1. All screens have a search

bar in the top left for fast

searching and (colour) tagging

of events and busses.

2. FMOD Studio now represents

a timeline as well as

parameters, so users can drop

sounds into a time track with

sample accurate positioning.This will also allow branching

logic so the time cursor can

jump between segments of the

track for interactive music.

3. FMODs event editor is totally

redesigned to incorporate

effect chains with automation

curves for all controls. Sound

definitions and mixer snapshot

triggers are displayed as theboxes on the layers top track.

4. Create custom 3d roll-off

curves and ADSR envelopes

can be added to sounds

to create more dynamic

environments.

5. As in the mixer, effects can be

added pre and post fader.

6. The effect deck shows that

modulators can be applied

to a filter, so over time the

lowpass filter cutoff frequency

can oscillate automatically if

so desired. These oscillators

(or LFOs) can be applied toany control in the effect deck,

and LFOs can even affect

other LFOs for more complex

interactions.

7. Stereo vs 5.1 or 7.1 mixes

can be set up depending

on the platform. Panning is

represented graphically and

can handle any speaker mode

or configuration. The run-timeengine will position the audio

in the correct speakers at

run-time.

8. All metering can be performed

in realtime, while the game is

running.

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This new interface will be immediately familiar to audio professionals who will quickly and easily

grasp the creative possibilities and embrace the slick and intuitive workflow. The net result is greater

flexibility, creativity, efficiency and more polished end-product.

Finally, professional 5.1 audio mastering comes to the games industry

The new FMOD Studio mixer interface has been researched and designed to provide an experience similar to popular Digital Audio Workstation

interfaces seen within the industry.

This gives a sense of familiarity to the designer, and power to create mixes that reflect the moods within the game. Mastering and metering is now a

breeze, as is creating mix states that can be triggered from within the game to totally change the environment in real-time.

1. The new FMOD Studio mixer

contains a familiar channel

strip interface with busses,

sends and returns, VCAs,

effect chains, side-chaining,

and mixer snapshots.

2. The bus tree on the left closely

follows the old category view

in FMOD Designer.

3. Each bus is represented by a

channel strip and contains a

volume fader, mute/solo and

controls for sends.

4. All strips are metered in

realtime when connected to a

game, so you can check your

levels for each bus, and makesure they dont clip, or are at

the right levels in comparison

to the rest of the mix.

5. You can also control the final

5.1 level metering on a master

bus with a controllable level

slider.

6. VCAs can be used to scale

or control a group of busses

at once, adjusting their levels

relatively.

7. The effect deck. In this section

you can add effects, including

Pro Audio effects from iZotope,

McDSP, AudiGaming and

SpectrumWorx. The effectdeck shows the signal chain

for a bus. Examples of other

controls that can be added

include a flanger (post fader),

an iZotope compressor and

limiter pre fader; a range of

FMOD effects, panners and

modulators and pre- and post

fader metering.

Fully featured mixing desk with pro effects for mastering

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The worlds firstlive in-game audio creation tool

The worlds first live in-game, audio creation tool gives you the ultimate in creativity and control.

Experience the mood change and view the action as you create, add, edit and mix audio content all in

real-time. Plus add mixer snapshots that make your game come alive by having entire mixes respond

smoothly to game states and audio event triggers

Author as you go

The ability to author your audio content live in-game gives you the ultimate in control. Create, add, edit and mix audio content with precise timing and

efficiency. FMOD Studio takes care of your build live, as you work which means that you can instantly preview your results without that annoying edit,

rebuild, restart cycle.

The immediacy of both creation and preview will reduce the time you spend creating and debugging your audio content. For the first time you will get

a real sense of your audio coming alive while the game is running.

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And so much more under the hood

FMOD Studio continues to impress with important game features that make your life easier. We have

taken care of the boring stuff to enable fast ports to different platforms, and support for localization

so you dont have to bend over backwards to get the result you want.

FMOD Studios enhanced functionality is not limited to interface

enhancements.

In addition to the interface enhancements and new features, FMOD

Studio supports a range of other functional and performance related

features.

These include:

The all new integrated profiler which captures game events and audio

output, and lets the user scrub through the game audio as it played,

allowing debugging of mixing and performance issues;

Hardware control surface support;

VCAs - Control groups of busses at once, even as part of a mixer

snapshot;

Sends - direct signal flow around the mix, for greater audio control;

Nested events for complex audio that can be built out of components;

and

Source control/multi user collaboration - with Perforce support

supplied out of the box.

The new FMOD Studio API has been designed to make common tasks simple while still allowing

full access for advanced usage. Coupled with our focus on empowering the sound designer we have

streamlined the API to minimize work for the programmer.

Enhanced API for quick and easy integration into any game or engine.

The new FMOD Studio API has been designed to make common tasks

simple while still allowing full access for advanced usage.

Coupled with our focus on empowering the sound designer we have

streamlined the API to minimize work for the programmer who will find

it easy to use, flexible and extremely powerful.

Virtual events - Now you can play as many events at once as you like,

and only limit the audibility of these events if required

Mixer snapshots - the game can now trigger scripted responses to a

game events. Full mix sequences can be started from the game such

as ducking, and effects on busses

Fire and forget playback - Repetitive programmer tasks are

streamlined with single function calls to trigger common simple

events

Localization - The programmer can switch between multiple

languages at runtime

New codecs - CELT and Ogg Vorbis have been added for high quality,royalty free compressed sound

Templates and instruments alongside events within events - These

will allow the user to create dynamic audio environments that

minimize or remove repetition with a simple set of building blocks,

lowering overall memory usage.

File system overrides for streaming game engines - Streaming game

data alongside audio is now easy with FMOD Studios prioritized file

request callbacks.


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FMOD Studio something for everyone

Audio professionals: You will love the increased level of control and intuitive interface, and in particular

the live in-game feature.

Programmers:Integrating FMOD Studio with your project is now much quicker and simpler

Management:FMOD Studio is a creative tool and game audio engine that will empower your team to

create superior results in the all important area of game audio, in less time.

Audio Professionals

FMOD Studio is designed to be instantly

familiar to audio professionals with its Digital

Audio Workstation styled interface.

They will love the increased level of control

throughout and in particular the live in-game

editing and mixing features, coupled with

hardware control surface support.

In addition, the new suite of professional leveleffects from industry leaders such as iZotope,

McDSP, AudioGaming and Little Endian

provide endless opportunity to explore, fine

tune and create.

Add to this the enhanced workflow and

collaborative features and you have the

ultimate game audio creation tool.

Audio Programmers

FMOD Studios enhanced API has set new

standards and provides audio programmers

with the most flexible and powerful tool on the

market today.

Integrating FMOD Studio with your project is

now much quicker and simpler and there are a

number of common tasks that the programmer

would normally have to implement, that are

now automated.

In addition, profile your game live and get

instant feedback on events and CPU/memory

usage throughout the games lifespan. Coupled

with co-operative game data/audio streaming

features, unparalleled cross platform support,

and a new streamlined API, FMOD Studio is a

pleasure to work with.

Company decision makers and executives

FMOD Studio provides a number of benefits to

the company executives.

Firstly, the general interface enhancements

and performance upgrades will create a high

degree of efficiency within your studio.

Get first class support through our ticketing

system, solution database and forums. Emails

are always answered same day. FMOD Studiois QA tested and runs through rigorous

automated tests daily to avoid unexpected

surprises.

Most importantly, the power of FMOD Studio

as a creative tool and game audio engine will

empower your team to create superior results

in the all important area of game audio.


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FMOD Studio by Firelight Technologies

Company Address

Level 10, 2-26 Elizabeth St

Melbourne 3000,

Victoria, Australia.

Sales/licensing enquiries

[email protected]

Technical support

[email protected]

Web Support

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www.fmod.org

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