About The Project

BroAudio is a sound management and playback system designed for Unity. It's unique in its focus on sound quality and a developer-friendly experience. You can create extensive and captivating audio systems without the need for mastering complex middleware like FMOD or Wwise. Whether you're part of a large team or a solo developer, achieving the goals becomes effortless and efficient with BroAudio.

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Features

Fade In/Out and Cross Fade with multiple ease function
Seamless Loop
Random Playback (with weight), Sequential Playback
Clip Editor for permanent clip editing
Dynamic audio effect
Enhanced Volume Control Range (up to +20dB)
Visualized waveform and visualized playback flow view
Customizable GUI settings
Write code in just one line
and more…

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Quick Start

Install

Get it from Unity Asset Store, install it from Package Manager

Creating sound libraries

Locate Tools/BroAudio/Library Manager in the Unity menu bar.
Drag and drop the required AudioClip.
Edit the parameters
edit the clip's volume, playback position... etc.
Name the asset and entities and choose an AudioType
You could also skip this step. Just remember to set it before you need them in your scene.

Implementation

You can implement the sound you've created in Library Manager with or without coding.

Without Code

Add SoundSource component to a game object
Select the required sound via the dropdown menu

Choose the triggering strategy
Enables "Play On Start" if you want to play it when the game object is activated at runtime. Or using Unity Event to trigger the Play() function like the Button's OnClick as below.

With Code

Declare a SoundID and implement BroAudio.Play() to play it

Select the required sound via the dropdown menu in the Inspector
The same way as using SoundSource.

Hit the Unity play button and enjoy it !

That's all you need to start using BroAudio. Of course, there is more than just this. Check out the rest of the documentation to fully unlock all the features of BroAudio.

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Explanation

Why is this tool related to sound quality?

Indeed, apart from issues like noise and distortion that need to be repaired, there is no objective method to enhance sound quality. However, a playback system still holds significant impact over the quality of sound. This is because the loss of sound quality is relatively easy to occur and hard to avoid.

Here are some common issues listed along with how BroAudio addresses them:

Issues	Bro's Solutions
Distortion caused by playing multiple sounds simultaneously.	Well-designed mixer and auto-ducking on the master track
Comb Filtering	Preventing rapid repetition of the same sound
Unbalanced volume levels	Full range (-80dB to +20dB) and highly adaptable real-time volume control system
Unnatural volume changes in Fade In, Fade Out and CrossFade	Utilizing AudioMixer for volume control

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What does Developer-Friendly mean in this tool?

BroAudio aims to minimize the amount of information presented to developers. This means that by default, you will only see a few commonly used features, while other functions dynamically appear in the UI interface as you interact. You won't be overwhelmed by a large number of rarely used, or even completely unfamiliar settings and parameters.

What's even better is that BroAudio allows you to customize the GUI layout. You can set and select the parameters you want to display in Tools/BroAudio/Preferences.

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