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Its generally pretty hard to diagnose these type of problems without having some more info, but in general I would say just double check how youve set everything up, and test wwise on its own using the soundcaster If that works then try it with unreal and use the profiler in wwise and from there you can probably figure out what might be your issue. Check the spelling of your name on the states, this has messed me up alot. copy and paste them to avoid spelling errors. Im sure youll figure it out:)

So there are a couple of reasons for this. The main one is that the De- noising process for the samples removes a lot of the treble, in my case I had to remove more noise because I didnt have high quality mics and preamps to record with. Another reason is that I used the practice pedal(felt piano) so that also made it sound muffled. Ive had oppourtunities to record with higher quality mics/signal chains and imo they make all of the difference in terms of quality. Of course I nice piano generally helps too:)

@@ArcitecAudio Thanks for the explanation. I can now understand the difficulties you had in recording the samples and removing noise. It's a long laborious process recording samples.

@@jonos138 With better mics and you dont have to do as much noise removal and it sounds much better!

Could be cool Idea with to showcase the entire workflow of maybe a short game jam! Only tricky thing is implementation is always game specific so other than some basic things on how to use the wwise and unreal tools to do simple stuff its rare that the implementation you follow will exactly work with your situation. Although sometimes is does and its great:) Thanks for the suggestion

@@ArcitecAudio how long have you been at the sound design? it's sounding great

@@namoneeco Thanks so much:) Probably around 5 years now!

Hi Vasilis! Thanks for the message! While I would likely need more info on the Unreal side of things to understand you problem a bit better, I would say check the spelling of your state and state group in unreal blueprints or in wwise(copy n paste to be sure). Make sure to use the profiler in wwise to see if Unreal is indeed sending the State change. From there you can determine what information is being passed or not and hopefully solve your issue. Best of luck:)

Thanks for this comment; I really adore this piano its been with me for over 18 years! I actually moved the piano near my staircase for the reason reason you just mentioned, it sounds much better there! I really would love to close mic a some stereo coles 4038's and combine them with some other condensers a little further away. I did this mic combo at Humber studios for some recordings a while back and it really captured the low and mid nicely but because of the ribbon it attenuated much of the hammer\mechanical noise from close mic a piano, combined and mixed, you get the nice detail of the condenser far enough to avoid the mechanical noise but then have the ribbons close to bring out and enhance the low and mids of the piano. My preference is generally for warmer sounding pianos which are a little less bright so this setup worked for me!

@@ArcitecAudio Wonderful! You might also consider a Blumlein pair (condenser or ribbon), depending on how much you like binaural. I have not tried Blumlein yet but plan to experiment with a pair of AKG 414's. Have you tried SampleRobot? I am temped to try it. Pricey, but seems to potentially automate the sampling workflow in a very time-saving way. I can see how it would be a big time saver with synths (especially ones with MIDI), but I was wondering about acoustics instruments.

@@64nightfly I havent done the blumlein technique yet on a piano but i have actually sampled a piano using the binaural ku-100 along with some coles, 149s and some km184s its was my best piano sampling; will post it up one day with a link to download it, maybe on piano book and my website. I have not tried sample robot, will look into this for sure, any time saver in sampling is good!

Its been a while, but I started with this "How To Build A Piano Instrument In KONTAKT" and then just figured out the sample amount I wanted to do and then figured some out myself and also used other resources like David Hilowitz to learn a bit more about kontakt. Its not too hard to do but to get a good result on piano you need lots of sample velocity layers. Hope that steers you in the right direction:)

@@ArcitecAudio I'm shooting my shot here but i would be interested in you helping me create a piano instrument with real piano samples like this for a project im working on for 2024. If this is something you are interested in send me your email i would love to give you more details. Compensation would be involved btw. Let me know.

Yeah sure let me know the details! If you got to bottom of my website, my email is right there www.arcitecaudio.com/ @@KellBailey ..i would hyperlink the website in the comments if i knew how

@@ArcitecAudio Sent! i look forward to hearing from you!

Glad you like it!

The differences are quite noticable yes and in general i would say more expensive microphones = better result up to a certain point. Its also the depth of your sample layers which makes a convincing sample, with pianos its mostly in the in the velocity layers! To get a decent sounding sample, better than this recording youve got to spend around 3hrs just doing all your layers, after that processing is not that fun either:) Im not too familiar with the Logic sampler so Im afraid i cant be of much help here! With regards to your sampler of choice, I would recommend Decent sampler or Kontakt as you can use these with other DAWS, but if your a logic die hard then i think the ease of sampling outweights the effort needed in making your sample versatile across multiple DAWs

Generally you shouldnt have any issues regarding memory for any audio as its quite light. If youre using soundbanks you can optimize those but using Wwise's event based packaging eleminates the need to manage your memory. You can even go on to their website to try out apply to use the premium plugins for wwise

My pleasure:)

Thanks Ryan! Hope everything going well! Im excited to hear the new update:)

Thanks so much:)

thanks:) One of these days i will post the binaural sample version I recorded with the Ku - 100 and an bunch of other expensive mics at humber studios

Im glad it helped out!

​@@er-to8zh yeah its sounds like two different states would be your best bet, one for the song/track and one for the loop of the track when you finish the song. When the ending screen goes up you can call the other state and set it's fade parameters so that the song/track audio fades how you want it into the loop track. Hope that helps!

Hey Christopher! Its a bit tricky to know for sure what youre specific problem could be regarding the playback of the ambient fx. A couple things I would recommend though is making sure that your soundbanks are generated correctly and the wwise project is saved as well as checking that your ambient sound sources can play back in the editor, if they cant it might be that you havent build the banks in unreal, misnamed a file! Again its a bit tricky to know for sure what your specific issue is without getting some more info! I hope these ideas helped!

nor did I but im glad you found it funny :)

Thanks so much! That really means alot!

Thanks so much, i hope to have some more time soon to post soon!

Thanks Charles! Ill look into posting a video with a link to this binaural piano i just made a while back. It still needs some tweaking but nonetheless it could be cool for anyone looking to learn how to create an instrument using multiple mic positions!