Create Metasound Interface

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In this video, it’s shown that custom Interfaces for metasounds can be made.

Minute 19:

I’ve scoured the docs and internet but can not find anyone who’s done this.

I’d like to make an interface the returns a custom hearing state for the player listening to the metasound, similar to how attenuation gives info about the distance a metasound has to a listener.

Goal would be to have a hearingComponent which would populate this interface for any metasound they are listening to.

Any help or resource, or where for instance the other interfaces are made. I found the IAudioParameterInterfaceRegistry where the other default interfaces are added:

Audio::IAudioParameterInterfaceRegistry& InterfaceRegistry = Audio::IAudioParameterInterfaceRegistry::Get();
InterfaceRegistry.RegisterInterface(Audio::AttenuationInterface::GetInterface());
InterfaceRegistry.RegisterInterface(Audio::SpatializationInterface::GetInterface());
InterfaceRegistry.RegisterInterface(Audio::SourceOrientationInterface::GetInterface());
InterfaceRegistry.RegisterInterface(Audio::ListenerOrientationInterface::GetInterface());

but that’s as far as I’ve got in the code rabbit hole. Will post here if I find more.

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Ok, I’ve created an interface by copying the SountAttenuation interface example.

AudioSettings.cpp
ActiveSound.cpp
SoundAttenuation.h
SoundAttenuation.cpp

While this works, I’m pretty sure an external interface can be defined and registered using RegisterExternalInterfaces → MetasoundInterface.cpp

I’ll look into how this can be done, instead of injecting code into the files to include a custom interface where the engine default interfaces be.

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Hey man, I’m in the same position, also curious how to add custom Metasound interface, please let us here know if you found something

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IAudioParameterInterfaceRegistry::RegisterInterface works well to register my custom interface (provided it’s done early enough) - but I have no idea how to update the parameters without severly hacking it into ActiveSound.cpp