Wwise (Wave Works Interactive Sound Engine) is Audiokinetic's software for interactive media and video games, available for free to non-commercial users^[2][3] and under license for commercial video game developers. It features an audio authoring tool and a cross-platform sound engine.^[4]

The Wwise authoring application uses a graphical interface to centralize all aspects of audio creation. The functionality in this interface allows sound designers to:

• Import audio files for use in video games
• Apply audio plug-in effects
• Mix in real-time
• Define game states
• Simulate audio environments
• Manage sound integration
• Apply the Windows Spatial Audio API, or Dolby Atmos.

Wwise allows for on-the-fly audio authoring directly in game. Over a local network, users can create, audition, and tweak sound effects and subtle sound behaviors while the game is being played on another host.

Wwise also includes the following components:

• Cross-platform sound engine (Wwise Authoring)
• Multichannel Creator (allows creation of multichannel audio)
• Plug-in architecture for source, effect, and source control plug-ins, part of Wwise Launcher
• SoundFrame API
• Wave Viewer (allows for sampling of WAV audio files)

Wwise supports the following platforms:^[5]

Titles^[6][7] which have used Audiokinetic include:

Wwise is intended to be compatible with proprietary and commercial engines.^[9]

• Unreal Engine 3
• Unreal Engine 4
• Unity
• Cocos2d-x
• CryEngine^[10]
• Orochi 3
• Gamebryo
• Fox Engine
• Autodesk Stingray
• Open 3D Engine (which superseded Amazon Lumberyard)

One play has used Wwise and its Interactive Music capabilities for live performance:

• Dom Duardos by Gil Vicente, co-produced by Companhia Contigo Teatro and Grupo de Mímica e Teatro Oficina Versus, with music by Pedro Macedo Camacho^[11][12]

• FMOD
• OpenAL
• Sound design
• Video game development

• Alexander Brandon, "Audio Middleware, Part 2: More Contenders in the Emerging Field" Mix Magazine, 04-01-2007. Retrieved on 04-13-2007.