Getting audio into Unreal

How do we get the audio files into Unreal? What do you need to take note of?

The audio format

Unreal supports the importing of sounds only in the .wav format. The .wav format is a widely used format that can store raw uncompressed sound data.

The sampling rate

The sampling rate is recommended at 44100 Hz or 22050 Hz. As mentioned earlier, the sampling rate determines how often the analog wave is recorded. The higher the frequency (measured in Hertz or Hz), the more data points of the analog wave that are collected, which aids in a better reconstruction of the wave.

Bit depth

The bit depth is set as 16. It determines the granularity at which the amplitude of the audio wave can be recorded, which is also known as the resolution ...

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