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Game Audio Development with Unity 5.X

You're reading from   Game Audio Development with Unity 5.X Design a blockbuster game soundtrack with Unity 5.X

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286450
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Micheal Lanham Micheal Lanham
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Preface 1. Introducing Game Audio with Unity FREE CHAPTER 2. Scripting Audio 3. Introduction to the Audio Mixer 4. Advanced Audio Mixing 5. Using the Audio Mixer for Adaptive Audio 6. Introduction to FMOD 7. FMOD for Dyanmic and Adaptive Audio 8. Visualizing Audio in Games 9. Character Lip Syncing and Vocals 10. Composing Music 11. Audio Performance and Troubleshooting

The duck volume effect

The duck volume effect, which may also be referred to as side chain compression, is an effect which controls the volume of one group using the volume of another. This is a powerful effect and has many applications in several areas where we want to highlight a specific group without it getting washed out from other competing audio. As this is a specialized effect, we will take a look at the following custom configuration to set this effect up:

  1. Open up Unity to the village project and direct your attention to the Audio Mixer window. Select the Music group and click on the Add Effect button. Select the Duck Volume effect from the context menu.
  2. Select the Direct group and click on the Add Effect button to open the effect context menu. Then, select the Send effect. Drag the new Send effect above the existing Send and then set the Receive to 'Music\Duck...
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