Unreal Engine 5.8 is a major audio release, despite Epic staffing cuts

Epic layoffs in March cut deep into the audio and music teams. But there’s hope that their work will live on in Unreal Engine and MetaSounds, via what is arguably the most innovative sound work built into any game engine. Unreal Engine 5.8, now in preview, features a bunch of powerful tools for working with sound, one of the biggest sound releases yet. Here’s a look at what’s in that roadmap.

Teenage Engineering’s mixer – FX – audio interface – instrument is provocatively tiny

The next big idea from Teenage Engineering is a minuscule multifunction mixer-audio interface. It’s beautiful and – maybe unusably small. Those Teenagers never shy away from controversy.

Peter Kirn - April 25, 2022

After update, iLoud MTM is an economical way to feed Dolby Atmos’ need for speakers

Whatever the “immersive audio” format, anything with the word immersive probably involves more monitors – certainly more than the two we’ve come to expect for stereo. Some of us had already been eyeing IK Multimedia as a way to do this without blowing a ton of cash – and they’ve just made that easier for Dolby Atmos, specifically.

Peter Kirn - November 19, 2021

Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro news: 8K, object tracking, spatial audio, and still free updates

Peter Kirn - October 18, 2021

NAP, a free, high-performance data-driven visual and audio platform, is now slicker than ever

Peter Kirn - October 15, 2021

Hear Jan Wagner’s intimate piano electronics, before they enter a planetarium dome

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2020

Max TV: go inside Max 8’s wonders with these videos

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2019

This free Multi Analyzer shows why Live 10 multichannel Max is cool

Peter Kirn - February 14, 2018

Radical electronics on a grand scale: Berlin Atonal in its fifth reboot year

Peter Kirn - August 10, 2017