New in Unreal Engine 5.3-Reactive Environments Powered by Procedural Music (extended demo)

before unreal engine 5.3, metasounds couldn't communicate with blueprints or c++ - if you played a note, there was no way to tell your game logic what the note was. last week, with the preview release of 5.3, this changed, and you can now create a procedural music system entirely inside of metasounds and bring the data into your environment.
this is great news if you're composing procedural music-you can dictate your gameplay or environment based on the music that your system is generating.
in this demo, all music and sound is generated procedurally in-engine, and everything is synthesized in-engine in real time as well. no audio files, no samples. the cool new thing is that the environment is also reacting exclusively to the music being generated-spheres and tunnels light up based on what notes are playing, and the color and movement is dictated by changes in tonality. there is no audio analysis happening-i'm just taking information generated procedurally by the metasound and feeding it into a blueprint in the scene.
this demo is an example of what can be done quickly with this new feature-i created it in an afternoon on the day the preview release hit the launcher. it will open up much more interesting possibilities, especially in tandem with the builder API also released in 5.3.

[@jiiiiim_xyz]

I've just watched your talk from the Unreal Games con, super amazing! I'd love to see a bit of a step by step on creating something like this.. I tried to screengrab all the node trees from your lecture, but A lot of it still feels a bit out my depth aha.. But I'll try and create :)
Thanks!

[@mrbackzpace]

Love this video! Really shows the power of UE 5.3's output watching!

[@studioz3d621]

If you put an album of your latest work on Spotify I would listen to it many times on my drive to the office.

[@auto_Silencer]

Ole`, I am a musician myself and I love it. Can you make tutorial about it. Much appreciate if you would do it. All the love.

[@tapesclub]

thx! will make some more tutorial-type videos for sure, please follow along 🥂

[@revolvertaco7493]

I don't get it.

[@tapesclub]

what part! happy to try and explain