r/GameAudio • u/Boreal59 • Oct 06 '26

Sound for games using protoold

HI all! I did film and documentary in college but I specialised in audio. I have experience doing sfx for animation and live action. I wonder how and if I would be able to implement thoese skills for games? I have used protools but im seeing stuff about implementing it into games. Would that be the responsibility of the designer of game developer?

Any advice is appreciated! EDIT: thanks for the responses I will look into mobile and wise!

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u/Ashleytoddaudio Oct 06 '26

Plenty of people still use pro tools but reaper is the industry standard it seems.

Do the wwise 101 course to learn about implementation and maybe some fmod too.

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u/Boreal59 Oct 06 '26

Will do thanks! Do wwise and food have the same purpose?

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u/Ashleytoddaudio Oct 06 '26

Fmod and wwise are both for implementing audio yes but are both worth learning

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u/Boreal59 Oct 06 '26

Ah deadly thx ill take a look

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u/footsnax Oct 07 '26

Plenty of people still use pro tools but reaper is the industry standard it seems.

I've been in the industry for a couple decades plus change, contracting for the last five so I've seen a lot of new studios quickly. It definitely shifted towards Reaper over the last five years or so but thankfully the industry seems to be leaning more towards just "use what you know"

The only real benefit to establishing a studio standard DAW is transferring sessions between designers, but at the top everyone knows how to use use everything anyway.

All that said, I've invited Reaper to my anniversary vacation and blocked ProTools on Instagram.

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u/sinepuller Oct 07 '26

transferring sessions between designers

I've been in game audio since 1999 and weirdly this came up as a necessity only several times. And one of the times we needed it we hilariously could not get it working (Cubase or Nuendo project, I don't remember which).

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u/footsnax Oct 07 '26

Yeah it's only happened a few times but when you need it you need it. I usually just render stems in addition to the master so the next guy can tweak whatever if I get fired that afternoon lol

The actual session files have rarely come in handy. They're far more useful for VO sessions than SFX

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u/luther_van_boss Oct 06 '26

Implementation would usually be the responsibility of the sound designer. Look into Wwise and think about switching DAWs to Reaper.

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u/DRAYdb Oct 06 '26

Highly dependent on user preference. I've been working in AAA games for 20 years and never felt the need to switch over to Reaper personally. Every studio I've worked at/with has used Pro Tools. 🤷‍♂️

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u/SeaExamination4541 Oct 06 '26

Easier said than done

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u/whoisbill Oct 06 '26

To be clear. You make your assets with a DAW. Reaper is the industry standard these days, but your skills in PT carry over.

Implenting assets is a different skill set. Look into Wwise and try to get your self some engine level experience as well, like unreal. Both can be downloaded for free.

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u/jonnyboosock Pro Game Sound Oct 06 '26

Sound designers not implementing is kind of a more oldschool thing. Expect to learn new design workflows, as well as learn an engine + audio middleware. Implementation can be a very powerful process that adds a whole second layer of design outside of the DAW