Audio Resonance Audio SDK for Unity: Deliver High-Fidelity Spatial Audio at Scale

Hi all, how to use the AudioMixer to control the volume of “Resonance Audio”? I can use AudioMixer to control the volume of non-Resonance Audio sounds, but I can't control the volume of “Resonance Audio”.

 

You can't unfortunately ... all Resonance Audio Sources go directly to the ResonanceAudioRenderer so any mixer effects or volume before the renderer is not applied.

 

OK, thanks for reply.

 

Hey doing a project for a class and I am getting the following:

Assets/UdacityVR/Scripts/LightUp.cs(78,21): warning CS0618: `GvrAudioSource' is obsolete: `Please upgrade to Resonance Audio (https://developers.google.com/resonance-audio/migrate).'

I am trying to upgrade to the Resonance Audio Source...imported the resonance audio package and also changed settings in Unity. Struggling with replacing the code. The warnings are from the following code:

this.GetComponent<GvrAudioSource>().Play();

I can't find a .Play() method for Resonance. Help?

 

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Thanks for this information. It is useful

 

Hi,

Is the Resonance SDK still working on Unity 2019.3? I tried to import the package but It doesn't seem to load anything in my assets folder. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

Hi,
I use Resonance Audio in my game. Originally I used Unity 2019.2f1 but then I updated to Unity 2019.3.15f1 after I got the following problem:
In the game preview, the plugin works great but when I build the game for Windows x86_64 every Audio Source with ResonanceAudioSource script attached stops working.
In x86 it doesn't work either. Updating Unity didn't solve the problem.
All the steps to configure Resonance Audio were followed properly.

I tried getting the console info and this is what I got:

Audio source failed to initialize audio spatializer. An audio spatializer is specified in the audio project settings, but the associated plugin was not found or initialized properly. Please make sure that the selected spatializer is compatible with the target.
(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Modules/Audio/Public/AudioSource.cpp Line: 361)
Audio source failed to initialize audio spatializer. An audio spatializer is specified in the audio project settings, but the associated plugin was not found or initialized properly. Please make sure that the selected spatializer is compatible with the target.
UnityEngine.AudioSource:SetSpatializerFloat(Int32, Single)
ResonanceAudioSource:UpdateSource() (at C:\Users\Lenovo\...\Assets\ResonanceAudio\Scripts\ResonanceAudioSource.cs:171)
ResonanceAudioSource:Update() (at C:\Users\Lenovo\...\Assets\ResonanceAudio\Scripts\ResonanceAudioSource.cs:154)


and this:

Fallback handler could not load library C:/Users/Lenovo/.../Sleep Paralysis_Data/Mono/audiopluginresonanceaudio
Fallback handler could not load library C:/Users/Lenovo/.../Sleep Paralysis_Data/Mono/audiopluginresonanceaudio.dll
Fallback handler could not load library C:/Users/Lenovo/.../Sleep Paralysis_Data/Mono/audiopluginresonanceaudio
Fallback handler could not load library C:/Users/Lenovo/.../Sleep Paralysis_Data/Mono/libaudiopluginresonanceaudio
Fallback handler could not load library C:/Users/Lenovo/.../Sleep Paralysis_Data/Mono/libaudiopluginresonanceaudio.dll
Fallback handler could not load library C:/Users/Lenovo/.../Sleep Paralysis_Data/Mono/libaudiopluginresonanceaudio


I haven't been able to find a solution. My coding skills are very limited, so I'm pretty much in the dark here. Hopefully someone can help me.

 

Hi im late, thought… but could you make it?

 

Hi mate, I'm having the same problem. Can you fixed it?

 

Probably good to mention there's version for use with WWISE and with vanilla Unity as well. Not everyone uses FMOD. (in fact probably most people don't)

This initial release includes: 3D audio spatialization, ambisonic soundfield rendering, reverb rendering using a room model with custom surface materials, occlusion, sound directive controls, source spread controls, distance attenuation.

 

Is this thing still supported? The package is deprecated and the sdk repository hasn’t been updated in years. @michaelberg @alperg @emauskopf

 

I'm also wondering about this. Such a shame to see a very useful plugin like this get abandoned. Also looks like those Google employees haven't been on the forum since 2017 and 2018 respectively. I guess that really cements that this has been abandoned.

 

It's maybe deprecated, but it still works. I'm using it.

 

Does Resonance Audio still work with Unity 2020.2 ?

 

Just tested it and it still works fine for me. That said, I'd recommend using the FMOD Studio version instead as it is still actively developed and supported there. And also.. you know.. FMOD Studio is awesome.

 

Unity should REALLY integrate Resonance Audio by default and maintain it.
Such a missed oportunity!

 

They are not going to do that, that would be so very un-Unity like. Just use FMOD Studio.

 

I don't want to rely on third parties. Specially on very expensive ones.
EDIT: I know there is a free indie license, but the fact that you have to pay a license PER PROJECT is a big no-no for me.

 

It's free if Unity is also free for you. If you're above the free threshold, and you're already giving thousands of dollars per year to Unity, 2000$ once is pretty reasonable, no?

I find that once per project, meaning for one game and all its ports you pay once and you're done, is pretty reasonable, as opposed to paying per month regardless of what you do.

Also 3rd parties are more reliable than any feature that Unity has ever made.

Anyway. To each his own. I find being less reliant on Unity, and not having to deal with Unity's abandoned and, frankly, horrible, audio stuff, is very much worth whatever caveats you may think there are.

 

check my reviews

 

Who uses Resonance in a production? Feedback is welcome.

 

we did, but resonance is depriciated in 2020.1
AND THERE IS NO AFFORDABLE REPLACEMENT

 

Sad, it sounded amazing.
So this thread should be locked and unpinned to represent realistic expectation. @hippocoder

 

I do use Resonance because I'm still on 2019 version of unity.
Why close the thread though?
What we should do instead is bring more atention to it!
Unity currently doesn't have a cross platform spatializer and Resonance is open source, cross platform and free. It only needs some love from Unity Tech to support it!
I still don't understand what's the reason to deprecate it since there is no substitute for it!
Any developer from Unity could bring some light to this?

 

no that's not true
UT package was deprecated, Resonance is still getting fixes [https://github.com/resonance-audio/resonance-audio]
and though Google's Unity package [https://github.com/resonance-audio/resonance-audio-unity-sdk] updates slowed down, that doesn't mean that it can't still be used in recent versions, especially since the Spatializer Plugin interface in project Audio Settings is still present

 

The issue now is the lack of official support for consoles.

 

yes that makes better sense
[though as was discussed already elsewhere there's e.g. FMOD Studio which supports Resonance on consoles (and although their licensing is affordable it still exists.. )]
i agree that this situation is not ideal and some word from UT would be indeed welcome, esp. since the silence is lasting and things are changing nevertheless

 

Unity has a terrible track record of maintaining even the slightest of slightly "niche" features. Even if they somehow update this again (they won't) it will be instantly dropped again.

It is why I view relying on extra 3rd parties as a positive. The average reliability of software I use goes up, since Unity is the most unreliable of the bunch.

 

As of 2021, real spatialized audio is a must-have feature IMO.
I'm not even talking about audio raytracing or something fancy, just a plain HRTF audio simulation.
Heck, Unity itself supplies a working audio demo plugin that does exactly that!
Why they don't just set it as the default way audio works is beyond my comprehension.
I guess they fired the guy that made Unity5's big audio overhaul, because audio hasn't improved a single bit since then... (or he left, who knows)
MAYBE SOMEONE AT UNITY COULD TELL US WHAT'S GOING ON?