About

FMOD

FMOD is a solution of adaptive audio, mostly used for games. The software suite consists of two components:

FMOD Studio:

A GUI to build adaptive audio.

FMOD Engine:

An API to play adaptive audio.

The FMOD Engine API consists of

Studio API:

Plays back content created within the FMOD Studio authoring tool. Studio’s data-driven approach means audio behaviors remain easily accessible and editable to sound designers.

Core API:

Allows for custom requirements that go beyond what the FMOD Studio API offers, providing fast and flexible access to low-level audio primitives.

The documentation for these components can be found at https://fmod.com/resources/documentation-api.

pyfmodex

The FMOD APIs have officiale bindings for C, C++, C# and Javascript. pyfmodex provides unofficial bindings for Python.

Goal of the project

The goal of the pyfmodex project - ran by volunteers in the Open Source community - is to provide a first class package to allow users to interface with FMOD from within their Python programs without needing to worry about the internals.

The intention is to

• support the last three stable minor releases of Python

• support Linux x86 and Windows platforms

• keep documentation and code quality consistently high

Given the portable nature of both Python and the FMOD libraries, this ought to mean that pyfmodex works just fine on other platforms (Mac OS) or architectures (Raspberry Pi, …).

This concerted effort can be found on the Github page of the project’s founder Lukáš Tyrychtr.

The name

The name pyfmodex comes from the legacy name “FMOD Ex” that was used by FMOD in the past.