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This Property Editor contains the properties for the selected Audio Bus. You can adjust the overall Volume, Pitch, Low-pass filter and High-pass filter, as well as duck the audio signal of other busses when the current bus is receiving a signal.
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[name] |
The name of the object. | ||||||
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Displays the object's color. Clicking the icon opens the color selector. ![]() Select a color to apply it to the object. When you choose a color for an object, a palette icon appears on the selected square, as well as a yellow triangle in the lower-right corner, as shown. To inherit the parent object's color, select the square at the far left of the color selector. | ||||||
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Controls the Mute and Solo states for the object and shows the implicit mute and solo states for the object. Muting an object silences this object for the current monitoring session. Soloing an object silences all the other objects in the project except this one. A bold M or S indicates that the Mute or Solo state has been explicitly set for the object. A non-bold M or S with faded color indicates that the object's Mute or Solo state was implicitly set from another object's state. Muting an object implicitly mutes the descendant objects. Soloing an object implicitly mutes the sibling objects and implicitly solos the descendant and ancestor objects.
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Indicates the number of elements in your project that contain direct references to the object. The icon is displayed in orange when references to the object exist, and in gray when no references exist. Selecting the button opens the Reference View with the object's name in the References to: field. | ||||||
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Any additional information about the object properties. | ||||||
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Sets the display of the Property Editor's selected tabs. By default, there is one panel that displays a single selected tab. You can, however, click a splitter button to display two panels, divided horizontally or vertically. The selected option is highlighted with a background color. You cannot open the same tab in both panels. If you try to open the same tab in both panels, the first panel automatically opens a different tab.
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Relative Properties | ||||
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Interface Element |
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Bus Volume |
The attenuation (level or amplitude) applied on the audio signal at the bus or Auxiliary Bus level. Refer to Understanding the Voice Pipeline for more information about volumes. Default value: 0
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Voice Volume |
The attenuation (level or amplitude) applied on the current object before it is routed to a bus or sent to an Auxiliary Bus. Refer to Understanding the Voice Pipeline for more information about volumes. Default value: 0
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Voice Pitch |
The playback speed of an audio structure, where:
Default value: 0 Range: -2400 to 2400 Units: Cents | |||
Voice Low-pass Filter |
A recursive filter that attenuates high frequencies based on the value specified. The units for this filter represent the percentage of low-pass filtering that has been applied, where 0 means no low-pass filtering (signal unaffected) and 100 means maximal attenuation. (For more detail, see Wwise LPF and HPF Value Cutoff Frequencies .) Default value: 0 Range: 0 to 100 Units: % | |||
Cone High-pass filter |
A recursive filter that attenuates low frequencies based on the value specified. The units for this filter represent the percentage of high-pass filtering that will be applied, where 0 means no high-pass filtering (signal unaffected) and 100 means maximal attenuation. The Cone High-pass filter has a link indicator and an RTPC indicator. Refer to Working with the Property Editor for more information. Default value: 0 Range: 0 to 100 Units: % |
Bus Specific | ||||
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Interface Element |
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Bus Configuration |
Determines in which configuration the bus output is formatted and can affect the processing status of the bus. You can use this setting to save CPU and memory by deferring mixing until further along the bus pipeline or reducing the number of channels for which Effects inserted on a bus must be processed. Some of the available options are:
The Bus Configuration of any top-level bus, such as the Master Audio Bus, is automatically set to Defined by device. This is because these busses always inherit the bus configuration of the associated Audio Device. For more information on these and other options in the drop-down list, refer to Understanding Bus Configurations . Default value: Same as parent | |||
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A per channel peak meter.
For more information about speaker configurations and channels, refer to Understanding Bus Configurations.
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Mute for Background Music |
Enable to specify that the bus will be muted when user music starts. Refer to Replacing Music with a Player's Own Music for important further information. |
Bus Status (Authoring) | |
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Interface Element |
Description |
Processing |
Displays the processing status of the bus based on how the project has been authored in Wwise; the processing status at runtime may differ. Refer to Understanding the Bus Icons and Processing Status for details on how the processing status is determined. |
Bus Config. |
Displays the bus configuration at the Pre-Effects stage based on how the project has been authored in Wwise; the bus configuration at runtime may differ. When there is mixing on a bus, the Pre-Effects stage is after the mixing stage, but before any Effects are processed. For example, in the case of a bus with the bus configuration set to 2.0, all inputs are mixed to a stereo configuration, and then Effects are added to the stereo signal. The Bus Config. field displays the configuration of the bus between these two stages. |
Out Config. |
Displays the bus configuration at the Post-Effects stage (i.e., after both mixing and Effects have been processed). This is based on how the project has been authored in Wwise; the bus configuration at runtime may differ. Because Effects have the ability to change the bus configuration, the Out Config. can differ from the Bus Config. For example, consider a bus with the Reflect plug-in. The Bus Config. could be 1.0, while its Out Config. would be Audio Objects. If there are no Effects inserted on a bus, Bus Config. and Out Config. are equivalent. When there are Effects inserted on a bus, the Out Config. will indicate 'Unknown' unless you are profiling captured data from the sound engine. In this case, the actual Out Config. will be displayed. |
Output Bus | |||||||
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Volume (to Output Bus) |
The attenuation or amplitude of the signal routed to the audio output bus.
Default value: 0 Range: -200 to 200 Units: dB | ||||||
Low-pass Filter (to Output Bus) |
A Low-Pass Filter for the signal routed to the audio output bus. A recursive filter that attenuates high frequencies based on the value specified. The units for this filter represent the percentage of Low-Pass Filtering that has been applied, where 0 means no Low-Pass Filtering (signal unaffected) and 100 means maximal attenuation. Default value: 0 Range: 0 to 100 Units: % | ||||||
High-pass Filter (to Output Bus) |
A High-Pass Filter for the signal routed to the audio output bus. A recursive filter that attenuates low frequencies based on the value specified. The units for this filter represent the percentage of High-Pass Filtering that has been applied, where 0 means no High-Pass Filtering (signal unaffected) and 100 means maximal attenuation. Default value: 0 Range: 0 to 100 Units: % |
Game-defined Auxiliary Sends | ||||
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Interface Element |
Description | |||
Use game-defined auxiliary sends |
Determines whether the object is using the game-defined auxiliary sends for the game object. A game-defined send is a combination of an Auxiliary Bus and a send volume. Enable this option to have the object affected by the values coming from the game for the following functions: If the game has initialized Spatial Audio and sent Rooms and Portals data to Wwise, this property determines if the object should send to the Auxiliary Bus defined by the current Room that the game object is inside. Default value: false | |||
Volume (Game-defined auxiliary sends) |
Determines the attenuation on the game-defined auxiliary sends volumes set for the game object. Use this volume to offset game-defined auxiliary send values.
Default value: 0 Range: -200 to 200 Units: dB | |||
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User-Defined Auxiliary Sends | |||||||
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Interface Element |
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Click the Configure Columns... shortcut (right-click) option from the column header band. The Configure Columns Dialog opens. Specify which columns to display and their order. | ||||||
ID column (User-Defined Auxiliary Sends) |
Determines the ID of the User-Defined Auxiliary Sends. Up to 4 different sends can be added. | ||||||
User Auxiliary Send |
Determines the Auxiliary Bus this object is sending audio data to. Auxiliary sends can only target Auxiliary Busses. To add an auxiliary send:
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[...] column (User-Defined Auxiliary Sends) |
Allow to select an Auxiliary Bus from the Master-Mixer Hierarchy. | ||||||
User-Defined Auxiliary Send Volume |
Determine the attenuation of the signal sent to the Auxiliary Bus.
Default value: 0 Range: -200 to 200 Units: dB | ||||||
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Early Reflections Auxiliary Sends | |||||||||||||
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Early Reflections Auxiliary Send |
Enables reflection processing in Wwise Spatial Audio and determines the Auxiliary Bus this object is sending to for early reflections processing. Early reflections processing simulates the acoustic phenomenon of sound bouncing off of virtual surfaces defined by geometry in the game. Since the first few reflections convey the most spatial information to the listener, it is advantageous to process the early reflections separately (from the late reverb) and with more detail using the Reflect plug-in. To render early reflections, the Reflect plugin must be assigned to an effect slot on the Auxiliary Bus assigned to an early reflections send. If no send is specified, then Wwise Spatial Audio will not compute early reflections paths for the sound.
To add an auxiliary send:
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Early Reflections Auxiliary Send Volume |
Determine the attenuation of the signal sent to the reflections Auxiliary Bus. This control also effects the volume of the reflections aux send specified by the API.
Default value: 0 Range: -200 to 200 Units: dB |
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