Week 10: Music Systems in FMOD

Unit 5 · Advanced FMOD + Unity · Wed Apr 8

Overview

The adaptive music system at the center of the project. The brief requires an introduction, at least one transition timeline, three intensity levels that follow the player’s score, and effects or compositional changes that follow the player’s health. This week covers the two families of approach — horizontal re-sequencing and vertical layering — and how FMOD’s timeline, transition regions, logic markers, and parameter automation implement them.

Topics

• Horizontal (re-sequencing) vs. vertical (layering) music systems
• FMOD timeline, tempo markers, transition timelines and regions
• Parameter-driven intensity — mapping Score to layers and sections
• Health-driven effects and compositional change

In Class

• Hour 1: Q&A
• Hour 2: Music systems overview and FMOD implementation
• Hour 3: Hands-on: build the intro → loop structure with a transition timeline; map the first intensity change to Score

Resources

• Music Systems Overview (video)
• Composing Horizontal and Vertical Music — Part 1
• Composing Horizontal and Vertical Music — Part 2
• Unity+FMOD — Survival Game — the music requirements