Supercharge Your FMOD Game Audio Skills - With Sergio Ronchetti

Posted October 3, 2024 by Asbjoern Andersen in Game audio

FMOD is a powerful middleware game audio solution - but how do you get started and make the most of its key features?

Game sound designer and composer Sergio Ronchetti has created a series of videos to help with exactly that - check them out below to supercharge your game audio work in FMOD:

Videos by Sergio Ronchetti

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• Looping Audio
Learn about Building Loops – 3 ways to loop audio in FMOD – What are Magnets? – Using Magnet Regions

• Parameters are your best friend!
Learn about Continuous Parameters – Discrete Parameters – Labeled Parameters

• Spatialize that sound!
Learn about the Spatializer Effect – Spatializer Sound Size and Minimum Extent – Automating the Spatializer in FMOD (Rail Route gameplay example)

• Snap into action!
Learn about Implementing Snapshots – Reverb Snapshots – Pause Menu Filter Snapshot – Snapshot Intensity

• Built-in Parameters
Learn about Distance Parameters – Event Cone Angle – Direction Parameters

• I Command you to sound great!
Learn about Command Instruments

• Deep dives to inspire your own work
Get an FMOD Deep Dive into Go Mecha Ball w/ Joonas Turner – FMOD Deep Dive into Prehistoric Kingdom w/ Byron McKay

• Are you up for a challenge?

• So much more to learn!
Learn about Return Tracks – LFO’s – Nested events – Convolution Reverb

• FMOD’s official series

Looping audio in FMOD

First thing to learn how to do is loop audio in FMOD – the most basic yet super common function of audio middleware! There are a few ways in which we can achieve this. These videos should help:

Building loops:

3 ways to loop audio in FMOD:

How To Use Fmod - x3 Ways To Loop Sounds

What are Magnets?

Using Magnet Regions:

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Parameters are your best friend!

Understanding how to use parameters is a great next step! With these we can connect our audio with game data. This is the next step towards creating our interesting adaptive systems. Watch the videos below to learn about 3 of the most commonly used parameters:

Continuous Parameters:

Discrete Parameters:

Labeled Parameters:

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Want to learn even more about FMOD? Join Sergio Ronchetti’s FMOD course:

Take the FMOD Challenge here

Spatialize that sound!

If you’re a sound designer learning all about attenuation and 3D implementation then understanding the spatializer is essential. These videos will help you learn them inside out PLUS a bonus video on how I automated a Spatializer on a game i worked on:

Spatializer Effect:

Spatializer Sound Size and Minimum Extent:

Automating the Spatializer in FMOD – Rail Route gameplay example:

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Snap into action!

Snapshots are a ludicrously powerful feature in FMOD. They allow us to alter and change our mixes at the snap of our fingers! These videos will help you understand how:

Implementing Snapshots:

How To Use Fmod - Implementing Snapshots

Reverb Snapshots:

Pause Menu Filter Snapshot:

Snapshot Intensity:

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Built-in Parameters

Built-in Parameters are standard tools in FMOD that are super easy to implement and can help us describe game scenarios in more detail (and even replace the Spatializer in some cases!) so check out these videos on the Distance, Direction and Event Cone Angle parameters:

Distance Parameters:

Event Cone Angle:

Direction Parameter:

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So much more to learn!

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