For those of you who may not know much about FMOD or how it works, here’s a brief rundown. The possibility of being in a three-dimensional sonic environment was something I had not considered. Though many were underwhelmed, and somehow still are, I was absolutely blown away.
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Honestly, I wasn’t expecting anything special, I had never heard of FMOD, and I assumed that it was just some proprietary sound engine that consisted if little more than a name Laminar developed in order to slightly enhance the hype over the incoming update of X-Plane. This is why, in November 2016, I was so thrilled when Laminar uploaded a video detailing the FMOD sounds that would be coming with the Cessna 172. Even in VR, if the sound doesn’t move according to the positioning of your head, the idea of being in a reality is completely ruined.
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Sound designers the ability to remove the screen between the person in front of it and the flight deck they are looking at. And now, with the introduction of FMOD, X-Plane has reached a similar point. Just like I said about student films, and even multi-million dollar productions, having good sound is what really immerses me into the world that a given director is trying to create. After all, we have had much larger fish to fry, and arguably still do, but with the introduction of FMOD in X-Plane 11, the soundscape of X-Plane has the possibility to become several times better. Of course BlueSkyStar has been making quality sound packs for aircraft for years now, but sound has never really been a top priority to most addon developers, and it probably wasn’t much of a concern for the X-Plane community. When it comes to X-Plane though, sound has never really been something that I thought about.
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I’ve realized that in order to be immersed in any form of media, the sound needs to be high-quality and as organic as possible. However, there has always been a constant that keeps the gate to the land of good films: good sound. Some are great, most are average, and some are terrible. In a university focused on arts, I’ve seen more than my fair share of student films.