Check out the SoundSeed™ Overview Video

 

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SoundSeed is a family of interactive sound generators for game audio. Using innovative DSP technology, SoundSeed greatly reduces memory requirements and allows you to create rich dynamic audio content.

 

Why?

In today’s game development environment, game developers are expected to deliver top-quality, realistic, and immersive games while staying on budget and working within the constraints of the various gaming platforms.

And, because of the relationship between sound variety, memory usage, and recording costs, Sound Designers often have to sacrifice variety in their game audio to remain within the asset recording budget or to lower memory usage.

With SoundSeed, Audiokinetic is ending this restrictive relationship and freeing creativity from technical constraints.

What’s the idea?

The whole idea is to get more sound into your game without eating up memory usage or blowing your budget.

Using SoundSeed, you can take a single “footprint” sound and create an unlimited number of sound variations.

For example, using SoundSeed Impact, the first module of the SoundSeed family, you can generate several impact sounds using a single original sound.  To achieve this,

• SoundSeed Impact first analyzes the original sound and separates it into 2 different parts: a residual sound and a parametric model.
• Then, it allows you to modify the parameters extracted from the original sound.
• And, finally, SoundSeed Impact applies the new parameters to the residual sound, which generates an entirely new sound while requiring only a single wave file to be stored with the game.

SoundSeed Impact is particularly well adapted to resonant impact sounds – other modules will soon be available for other types of sounds.

Does it really work?

There are several ways that you can verify the effectiveness of this revolutionary new software tool from Audiokinetic.

• Right now—you can see the SoundSeed Video Overview and listen to sword sounds generated using SoundSeed Impact, the first module of the SoundSeed family.
• Right now—you can download the first version of SoundSeed, including SoundSeed Impact, and try it for yourself.
• Customers and users who registered for a trial can download SoundSeed impact, including the SoundSeed Impact Modeler and the SoundSeed Impact Plug-in from our private support center.
• The SoundSeed Impact Plug-in is available to all from our community center, along with Wwise (as it is a plug-in for Wwise) – you’ll also have access to a sample project that will provide you with sample sounds to be used with the SoundSeed Impact Plug-in.
• In the coming months—you will be able to hear the results of Realtime Worlds’ work with SoundSeed in an upcoming title.  Audiokinetic will publish a customer profile on this renowned Scottish studio in the spring.