Master Audio vs Steam Audio SDK
Master Audio
dtdevtools.comSteam Audio SDK
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| Figure | Master Audio | Steam Audio SDK |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Game Audio Middleware | 7.8 (#11) | 7.6 (#18) |
| Integrations | The maker lists integrations including Resonance Audio, Playmaker, Opsive packages, NGUI, 2D Toolkit, Atavism, Behavior Designer, and Doozy UI. | The official site lists Unity, Unreal Engine, a C API, FMOD Studio, and Wwise integrations. |
| Intended users | The documentation describes Master Audio as a Unity plugin and shows setup through the Unity Editor and project scenes. | The C API is intended for custom game engines, custom audio middleware, and digital audio workstations, and can be called from languages that use external libraries. |
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In their own words
Master Audio
Master Audio has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Steam Audio SDK
Steam Audio SDK is a free toolkit for adding spatial audio to games and VR/AR apps. It renders positional audio binaurally using HRTFs to model sound direction relative to the listener. Environmental features include physics-based sound propagation, occlusion, reflections and reverb. The SDK can spatialize Ambisonics audio and rotate it with listener orientation, and developers can provide HRTFs in AES SOFA format. Multicore CPUs and supported GPUs can accelerate environmental simulation and rendering. Listed integrations include Unity, Unreal Engine, FMOD Studio, Wwise and a C API. The C API is intended for custom game engines, audio middleware and digital audio workstations, and can be called from languages that use external libraries. Supported systems include Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS; SteamOS is also listed as a runtime platform. Integration requirements include Unity 2017.3 or later, Unreal Engine 4.27 or later, FMOD Studio 2.00 or later and Wwise 2023.1.0 or later. The project describes its development tools as being in Beta. Steam Audio is available free to developers, subject to a license agreement.