Unity - Manual: Audio files

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Unity 6.1 User Manual
- Documentation versions
- Offline documentation
- Trademarks and terms of use
What's new in Unity
- New in Unity 6.1
- New in Unity 6.0
- New in Unity 6.0 Preview
- New in Unity 2023.2
- New in Unity 2023.1
Unity for first-time users
- Create your first project
- 2D and 3D projects
- Key concepts
- Best practice guides
Install and upgrade
- Install Unity
- Deploy Unity across your enterprise
  - Enable Unity installation by standard users (Windows)
  - Use Unity through web proxies
- Licenses and activation
- Upgrade Unity
The Editor interface
- The Project window
- The Scene view
  - Overlays
  - Scene view grid snapping
  - Pick and select GameObjects in the Scene view
  - Position GameObjects
  - Scene view navigation
  - Scene view Camera
  - Control a camera in first person
  - Scene visibility
  - Scene view Draw Modes and View Options overlays
  - Gizmos and handles
    - Gizmos menu
    - Programming with gizmos and handles
  - Scene view context menu
  - Custom Editor tools
- The Game view
- Device Simulator
  - Device Simulator introduction
  - The Simulator view
  - Simulated classes
  - Adding a device
  - Extending the device simulator
- The Hierarchy window
- The Inspector window
  - Manage the Inspector window
  - Inspect items
  - Focus an Inspector window
  - Assign icons to inspected items
  - Manage components and their values
- The Toolbar
- The status bar
- The Background Tasks window
- Console window
- Additional windows
- Undo
- Search in the Editor
- Customizing your workspace
- Preferences
- Keyboard shortcuts
  - Keyboard shortcut concepts
  - Shortcuts window reference
  - Manage keyboard shortcuts
  - Manage shortcut profiles
- Project Settings
  - Use the Project Settings window
  - Audio
  - Editor
  - Graphics
  - Package Manager
  - Physics
  - Physics 2D reference
  - Player
    - Splash Image Player settings
  - Preset Manager
  - Quality settings tab reference
  - Script Execution Order reference
  - Tags and Layers
  - Time
  - UI Toolkit project settings
  - Version Control
- 2D and 3D mode settings
- Save your work
- Editor analytics
- Troubleshoot the Editor
- Unity Search
  - Launch and use the Search window
  - Act on search results
  - Manage results tables
  - Focus searches with search providers
    - Use search providers
    - Activate and deactivate search providers
  - Search provider references
  - Visual query builder reference
  - Textual query references
  - Manage search queries
    - Invoke from the main menu
  - Create a custom search provider
  - Manage search indices
Packages and feature sets
- Unity's Package Manager
- Packages
- Creating custom packages
- Feature sets
Assets and media
- Introduction to assets in Unity
- Importing assets
- Caching assets
- Managing assets with the Asset Database
- Reusing settings with preset assets
- Combining assets into bundles
- Scripting with assets
- Distribute assets as packages
- Analyzing asset processes
- Unity's Asset Store
2D game development
- Introduction to 2D
- Get started with 2D game development
- 2D renderer sorting
- Sprites
- Tilemaps in Unity
- 2D physics
- 2D game development in URP
  - 2D lighting in URP
  - Precise pixel scaling and rotation via the Pixel Perfect Camera in URP
Get started with 3D game development
XR
- Overview
- XR project set up
- Run an XR application
- XR graphics
- XR audio
  - Audio spatializers in XR
- Unity XR SDK
Multiplayer
- Unity multiplayer overview
- Use the Multiplayer Center
Platform development
- Cross-platform features and considerations
- Android
- Dedicated Server
- Embedded systems
- iOS
- Linux
- macOS
- tvOS
- Universal Windows Platform
- visionOS
- Web
- Windows
GameObjects
- Introduction to GameObjects
- GameObject fundamentals
- Primitive and placeholder objects
  - Types of 2D primitive GameObjects
- Components
- Models
  - Creating models outside of Unity
  - Importing models into Unity
- Meshes
- Prefabs
- Constraints
Scenes
- Introduction to scenes
- Creating, loading, and saving Scenes
- Work with multiple scenes in Unity
- Scene Templates
- Layers
- Tags
- Text-based Scene files
Cameras
- Introduction to cameras
- The camera view
- Using multiple cameras
- Changing resolution scale
  - Introduction to changing resolution scale
  - Dynamic Resolution
- Excluding hidden objects with occlusion culling
- Simulating real-world cameras with Physical Cameras
- Camera output
- Cameras in URP
- Cameras in the Built-In Render Pipeline
  - Set the camera background with Clear Flags in the Built-In Render Pipeline
  - Camera Inspector window reference for the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Troubleshooting cameras
World building
- Sky
- Terrain
- Terrain and the Terrain Tools package
Physics
- Built-in 3D Physics
Input
- Mobile Keyboard
- Unity XR Input
- Legacy Input
  - Input Manager
  - Mobile device input
- IME in Unity
UI systems
- Comparison of UI systems in Unity
- UI Toolkit
- Unity UI
- IMGUI (Immediate Mode GUI)
Animation
- Mecanim Animation system
- Legacy Animation system
  - Legacy Animation component
Audio
- Audio overview
- Audio files
- Tracker Modules
- Audio Mixer
- Native audio plug-in SDK
- Audio playlist randomization
- Audio Profiler module
- Ambisonic Audio
  - Develop an ambisonic audio decoder
- Audio Reference
Video and cutscenes
- Video sources
- Video Player
- Video Profiler module
Lighting
- Introduction to lighting
- Lighting configuration workflow
- Light sources
- Direct and indirect lighting
- Shadows
- Reflections
- Lighting in URP
- Lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Optimize lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Lighting reference
Materials and shaders
- Materials
- Prebuilt materials and shaders
- Custom textures
- Custom shaders
- Color and High Dynamic Range (HDR)
  - Color spaces
  - High dynamic range (HDR)
- Shader Import Settings window reference
Visual effects
- Particle effects
- Decals
- Lens flares
- Light halos
  - Create and configure a halo light effect
  - Halo component reference
- Lines and trails
  - Rendering lines
  - Rendering trails
- Visual Effect Graph
Render pipelines
- Introduction to render pipelines
- Scriptable Render Pipeline fundamentals
- Choosing a render pipeline
- Rendering paths in Unity
- Using the Universal Render Pipeline
- Using the High Definition Render Pipeline
- Using the Built-In Render Pipeline
Post-processing
- Introduction to post-processing
- Post-processing effect availability reference
- Post-processing and full-screen effects in URP
Programming in Unity
- Get started with programming in Unity
- Environment and tools
- Object-oriented development
- Compilation and code reload
- Code optimization
- Debugging and diagnostics
Optimization
- Memory in Unity
- Unity Profiler
- Profiling tools
- Graphics performance and profiling
Building and publishing
- Build profiles
- Incremental build pipeline
- Visual Studio C# integration
- RenderDoc integration
- Version control
- Command-line arguments
Unity Services
- Unity IAP
Troubleshooting
Glossary

Topic	Description
Introduction to audio files	An overview of audio files in Unity.
Audio file format compatibility	Information about the audio file formats Unity supports.
Audio file compression in Unity	An overview of how Unity compresses audio files on import.
Audio Clip Import Settings reference	Reference information about the Audio ClipA container for audio data in Unity. Unity supports mono, stereo and multichannel audio assets (up to eight channels). Unity can import .aif, .wav, .mp3, and .ogg audio file format, and .xm, .mod, .it, and .s3m tracker module formats. More info See in Glossary Import Settings.
Import audio files into Unity	Instructions on how to import audio files into your Unity project.