This is a great video to get started with audio in Unity: Introduction to AUDIO in Unity(14:25)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Audio Source | The Audio Source plays back an Audio Clip in the scene. |
- Unity Manual: Audio Mixer Overview
- Ray Wenderlich: Audio tutorial for Unity: the Audio Mixer
- Understanding Decibels
- Audio works in Unity but distorts hugely in build
| Extensions | Description |
|---|---|
| .mp3 | MPEG layer 3 |
| .ogg | Ogg Vorbis |
| .wav | Microsoft Wave |
| .aiff / .aif | Audio Interchange File Format |
Tracker Modules are similar to Midi files, where pitch and instrument can be adjusted without losing quality. One benefit is they can be very small without a corresponding loss of sound quality compared to regular audio.
| Extensions | Description |
|---|---|
| .mod | Ultimate Soundtracker module |
| .it | Impulse Tracker module |
| .s3m | Scream Tracker module |
| .xm | FastTracker 2 module |
Source: Unity Manual: Audio Files
- Unity Manual and Unity Scripting Reference
- Chapter 3 in Ferro, Lauren S., and Francesco Sapio. Unity 2017 Game Development. Packt, 2018.
- Chapter 11 in Hocking, Joseph. Unity in Action: Multiplatform Game Development in C # (2nd Edition). Manning, 2018.