Certified Course Master Game Audio with Wwise And Unreal Engine 5 With Eduardo Pesole

Starts on: 24/09/2024 16:00 London time

Course overview

The live online and interactive course on sound design using Wwise and Unreal Engine for aspiring and professional game developers, sound designers and composer producers transitioning to game audio.

Master Game Audio with Wwise and Unreal Engine 5 is a live online and interactive course taught twice weekly over 6 weeks by Berlin-based sound designer Eduardo Pesole.

This course is designed specifically for aspiring and professional sound designers, composers, producers and game developers. It features weekly solo and group exercises, opportunities to ask Eduardo any questions about your own projects and the chance to connect with like minded practitioners from around the world.

The course also includes two live interactive playback sessions where you will be able to showcase your learning for practical critique and advice.

Class timings have been chosen to suit audiences across international time zones to help you build wider professional networks and for employees looking to log in from work and tie the course into their staff training and development.

Master Game Audio with Wwise and Unreal Engine 5 provides the necessary latest skills, techniques and first-hand industry insight into the methodology, workflow and tips and tricks to game audio, non-linear and procedural sound design using Wwise and Unreal Engine for video game and immersive experiences.

The course will lead you from the simple implementation of an audio file to be played in the engine to designing complex procedural audio systems, such as day night cycles; wind intensity, complex game mechanics, procedural environment changing from zone to zone, surfaces and walk intensity switches:

Learn how to combine ambisonics, audio objects and all spatial audio features to get a real immersive soundscape in which to move around.
Learn how to create a sound narration that is always coherent and dynamic, the role of interactive music, project optimisation for a balanced audio mix.
Work on exercises solo and in groups
Connect with Wwise Unreal Engine practitioners worldwide.
Speak to your employer about using your staff training allowance for the course!

The online course will consist of:

2 x 2hr live online classes / week
All classes recorded to watch at your own pace
Access to session templates and sounds
Interactive group challenges
Opportunities to showcase your projects for advice and guidance
Music Hackspace Graduate Certificate of Excellence
1-year Going Deeper subscription included

Who is this course for?

Audio Professionals and Enthusiasts
Game Developers and Designers
Students and Aspiring Game Audio Professionals
Professionals Transitioning to Game Audio

Course content

Introduction to Game Audio

Session 1 - Recording
Presentation - Session 1
Introduction to the course
Getting to know each other
Understanding the differences between linear and non- linear sound design
Game audio history overview
How to set up UE5 and Wwise
GAD document overview

Organising Wwise project

Session 2 - Recording
Presentation - Session 2
Work units and hierarchy structure
Containers and their uses
ICreate an event on Wwise and soundcaster sessions
integrate Wwise into an UE5 project

Sound from the game

Session 3 - Recording
Presentation - Session 3
Events actions
Source editor functions
Soundbanks
Add an event to unreal and play a sound from the game
UE5 listener
Profiling with Wwise

Game syncs 1

Session 4 - Recording
Session 4 - Presentation
Switches and States on Wwise
Switch, blend and sequence containers
Set an RTPC
Soundcaster with switch events
Profiling session with game syncs

Game syncs 2 + Feedback session 1

Session 5 - Recording
1h Feedback on students WIP
Trying switches using different surfaces
Set States

Starting with spatialization

Session 6 - Recording
3D positioning
Attenuation settings
3D spatialization and automations
Applications in UE5

Audio signal routing

Session 7 - Recording
Master mixer hierarchy and AUX busses
Actor mixers and their functions
Sends and automations
Effects

Ambisonics and env sound

Session 8 - Recording
IEM plugin suite overview
Importing AMBIX into Wwise
Building dynamic env sound in Wwise with blend containers and RTPC

Spatialization in UE

Session 9 - Recording
Ambient sound blueprint and radial circle
Portals, Spatial Audio Volumes, Reverb Volumes

Music overview + Feedback session 2

Session 10 - Recording
1h feedback on students WIP
Understanding interactive music workflow
Overview of interactive music system in Wwise

Elements of mixing

Session 11 - Recording
Prioritising sounds categories
Importance of dynamic mix to optimise projects
Ducking

Projects review

Session 12 - Workshop Recording
Showcase and feedback session on students projects

Requirements

Wwise license (free indie license)
Unreal Engine installed
Reaper or equivalent DAW
A MIDI controller (optional)
Gaming PC (Preferably)
Audio Interface (optional)
Microphone (optional)

Course schedule

The local time for all sessions is 4 PM London. Please be aware of time clock changes that vary across the world.

Session 1: Tuesday, September 24th, 4 PM
Session 2: Thursday, September 26th, 4 PM
Session 3: Tuesday, October 1st, 4 PM
Session 4: Thursday, October 3rd, 4 PM
Session 5: Tuesday, October 8th, 4 PM
Session 6: Thursday, October 10th, 4 PM
Session 7: Tuesday, October 15th, 4 PM
Session 8: Thursday, October 17th, 4 PM
Session 9: Tuesday, October 22nd, 4 PM
Session 10: Thursday, October 24th, 4 PM
Session 11: Tuesday, October 29th, 4 PM
Session 12: Thursday, October 31st, 4 PM

Meet your instructor

Eduardo Pesole (Bari IT, 1994) is a Berlin-based sound designer, sound artist and composer He is a graduate in Sound Design from IED - Istituto Europeo di Design, Rome and his clients include Point Blank Games, 505 Games and Oneoone Games. Eduardo started playing guitars and bass at the age of 14 in some psychedelic rock bands. From 2019 to 2021, he worked as mix engineer, audio editor and sound designer for short movies, until he switched to interactive sound design and audio programming for video games and eventually left Rome to move to Berlin. Meanwhile, he also worked as a composer for fashion movies and collections, collaborated with other artists and developed solos projects. The knowledge acquired from the game industry makes him able to move easily through multidisciplinary projects and to experiment with acoustics and the architecture of spaces through the use of spatial audio technology, within both the digital and the real world. He has a personal and genuine aesthetic that fully encloses all different genres he likes and gets inspiration from, in an organic and evolving form of sound narration. The use of analog synthesizers, granular synthesis and resampling allows him to design soundscapes and explore unique and interesting timbres.

Testimonials

Gabriele Sanfilippo - Lead Sound Designer at oneOone Games

I highly appreciated working with Eduardo in the game audio industry. His exceptional skills in sound design and music composition, coupled with a deep understanding of interactive audio, can significantly elevate the projects he is involved on. Eduardo his creativity, technical proficiency, and dedication to delivering immersive audio experiences make him a great asset to any game development team.

Daniel Molnar AKA Function Store - Visual Artist

Working with Eduardo on our audiovisual piece Unstable Matter, for the 8 screen 360 spatial installation in Monopol Berlin was a seamless process. He perfectly sonified the general atmosphere as well as tiny visual details, making it a complete immersive experience.