Unreal Engine 5.5 for sound: Audio Widgets, MetaSounds news

Unreal Engine 5.5 is a major release for artists of all kinds. On the audio side, the free-to-start platform has new tools for visualizing and debugging, powerful Audio Widgets for UI interactions, and a slew of MetaSounds improvements for workflow, quality of life, and targeting different platforms. Oh, and – finally, there’s reverb.

Here’s a free polysynth built entirely inside Unreal Engine 5

How much can Unreal Engine and MetaSounds accomplish? Developer/artist Matt Spendlove has built a complete open-source polysynth in it, roughly recreating the AudioKit Synth One using Unreal’s internal tools.

Peter Kirn - August 19, 2024

A very Unreal Halloween: playable Theremin, scenes from cinema

People continue to do wild things with Unreal Engine and MetaSounds. Celebrate Halloween with an interactive Theremin deep dive tutorial, and some classic cinema scenes from Halloween and The Shining recreated as ambient environments.

Peter Kirn - October 31, 2023

Fortnite gets a modular synth and custom music engine: Patchwork + UE

Peter Kirn - October 27, 2023

Unreal Engine 5.1 goes wild: what’s new from foliage to generated sound

Peter Kirn - November 24, 2022

Unreal Engine 4.27 out now with goodies like Web UI; early-access UE5 MetaSounds makes noise

Peter Kirn - August 25, 2021

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