Unreal Engine 4.22 Preview

DavidBoura · February 17, 2019, 2:52pm

PREVIEW!

New Unreal Audio Engine now on by Default for New Projects

**TimeSynth. **TimeSynth is a new audio clip based synth component focused on providing designers with sample-accurate start, stop, and concatenation sound playback.

**Layered Sound Concurrency. **The Sound Concurrency System now observes multiple settings/groups.

Spectral Analyzer for Submixed Added to Real Time Analysis Tools. In addition to the Envelope Follower, designers can now analyze a Submix’s Spectral Energy during gameplay to drive Blueprint automation.

**Improvements to Sound Asset Importing. **We have improved sound asset importing, in addition to supporting multi-channel wav files, Unreal Engine now converts from a variety of sound file formats upon import including AIFF, FLAC, and OGG/Vorbis.

**Improvements to MIDI Device Plugin. **Improvements have been made to the MIDI Device Plugin allowing users to not only process MIDI Device Input, but also send MIDI Messages Out to Devices.

These are so much great news!