FMOD – Adventures in code and reverse engineering

Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 6: Recording and visualizing sound card output

November 24, 2013

In this article, we’ll take a look at how to intercept and record the output from a sound card. Our primary focus here will be to create a visualizer that… more ›

Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 5: Real-time streaming of programmatically-generated audio

February 28, 2013

This article was inspired by David Gouveia – thanks for the suggestion! In this article, we shall look at how to generate sounds programmatically using a function which generates each sample one… more ›

Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 4: Frequency Analysis, Graphic Equalizer, Beat Detection and BPM Estimation

January 16, 2013

In this article, we shall look at how to do a frequency analysis of a playing song in FMOD and learn how to use this as the basis for a… more ›

Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 3: Embedding Sounds In Your Application as Resources

January 15, 2013

Having all of your sounds and music as separate files in your application is messy, and makes abuse by mischievous souls slightly easier. To tidy things up, we can embed… more ›

Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 2: Channel Groups

January 15, 2013

If you’ve been following Part 1 of this series you should now be able to play music and sound effects with FMOD in your applications, pause and unpause them and… more ›

Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 1: Build environment, initialization and playing sounds

October 5, 2012

FMOD by Firelight Technologies Pty Ltd. is a cross-platform audio API used in – among other things – many commercial games such as Crysis, Diablo 3, Guild Wars, Guitar Hero,… more ›