| Comparison |
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- This page will describe the differences between FMOD 3 vs FMOD Ex.
- More details soon!
| Feature | FMOD 3 | FMOD Ex |
| 3D Sound support |
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| - Multiple listeners |
x |
x |
| - Doppler, attenuation, panning |
x |
x |
| - Linear rolloff |
x |
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| - Custom multi-point rolloff |
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x |
| - Sound cones |
x |
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| - Obstruction and occlusion |
x |
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| - Polygon based geometry occlusion |
x |
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| - 5.1 and 7.1 support |
h/w only |
x |
| - 3D/2D sound morphing |
x |
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| - I3DL2 Reverb in software |
x |
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| - Stereo / multichannel sounds in 3D |
x |
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| - EAX reverb |
eax3 |
eax4 |
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| Voice management |
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| - Priority system |
x |
x |
| - Virtual voices |
x |
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| Streaming engine |
x |
x |
| - Stitching / Sentencing |
x |
x |
| - Stitching / Sentencing while playing |
x |
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| - Multi-thread spikeless decoder |
x |
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| - Sample accurate seeking and looping | x | |
| - Internet streaming | x | x |
| Output modes for PC platforms | ||
| - Windows DirectSound |
x |
x |
| - Windows Multimedia Waveout |
x |
x |
| - Windows ASIO |
stereo only |
full |
| - Mac sound manager |
x |
x |
| - Mac CoreAudio |
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x |
| - Linux OSS |
x |
x |
| - Linux ESD |
x |
x |
| - Linux ALSA |
stereo only |
multichannel |
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| Software mixing engine | ||
| - 8bit / 16bit sample support |
x |
x |
| - mono / stereo sample support |
x |
x |
| - 24bit / 32bit / floating point sample support |
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x |
| - native ADPCM, MPEG, XMA sample support |
x |
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| - multichannel (>stereo) sample support |
|
x |
| - 5.1 / 7.1 output support |
x |
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| - Sub-mixing |
x |
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| - Stereo panning |
x |
x |
| - Matrix panning (any input to any speaker) |
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x |
| - Cubic / 5 point spline resampling |
x |
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| - Effects per voice | x | |
| - Custom (user made) DSP effects. | 16bit int | floating point |
| - DSP Plugin support, VST, Winamp support |
x |
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| - DSP Units with multiple inputs and outputs |
x |
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| - Oscillator support (sine/square/saw etc) |
x |
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| - Cross platform lowpass filter | x | |
| - Cross platform highpass filter | x | |
| - Cross platform echo filter | x | |
| - Cross platform flange filter | x | |
| - Cross platform distortion filter | x | |
| - Cross platform normalize filter | x | |
| - Cross platform parametric EQ filter | x | |
| - Cross platform pitch shift filter | x | |
| - Cross platform I3DL2 reverb filter | x | |
| - Cross platform chorus filter | x | |
| - Cross platform reverb filter | x | |
| - Volume ramping |
x |
x |
| File formats | ||
| - AIFF | x | x |
| - ASF | x | x |
| - ASX | x | |
| - DLS | x | |
| - FLAC | x | |
| - FSB | x | x |
| - IT | x | x |
| - M3U | x | |
| - MID | win32 only | x |
| - MOD | x | x |
| - MP2 | x | x |
| - MP3 | x | x |
| - OGG | x | x |
| - PLS | x | |
| - RAW | x | x |
| - S3M | x | x |
| - VAG | x | x |
| - WAV | x | x |
| - WAX | x | |
| - WMA | x | x |
| - XM | x | x |
| - XMA | x | |
| Platforms | ||
| - Win32 | x | x |
| - Win64 | x | x |
| - Linux32 | x | x |
| - Linux64 | x | |
| - Mac OS8/9/X | x | x |
| - Mac x86 | x | x |
| - Pocket PC | x | |
| - Xbox | x | x |
| - Playstation 2 | x | x |
| - Gamecube | x | x |
| - Playstation Portable | x | x |
| - Xbox 360 | x | |
| - Playstation 3 | x | |
| - Wii | x | x |
| Sound designer focus | ||
| FMOD Designer tool | x | |
| Event API | x | |
| Network auditioning of sound events | x | |
| Real-time tweaking of event data via TCP/IP | x | |
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