# Excited Waves Acoustics Watch the demo: [![Watch the demo](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DyS5AQqjrp4/sddefault.jpg)](https://youtu.be/DyS5AQqjrp4) > **Trial edition** is fully functional in Unreal Editor. A trial key is required in-editor – request one at . Packaging a standalone build requires a Full license. Excited Waves Acoustics is a runtime acoustics SDK with an engine-agnostic core and integration adapters for UE Native Audio and Wwise. Attach a detector component to any actor, set up submixes or audio buses, hit Play – the system automatically analyzes surrounding geometry and drives reverb and early reflections in real time. No baking or manual zones required. ### The Problem **Manual reverb zones cost weeks per map.** Placing and tuning volumes across large or streaming levels doesn't scale with map count or content churn and is inherently error-prone – every level design iteration breaks existing zones, forcing teams to re-author instead of iterating on gameplay. Some studios build in-house acoustic stacks from scratch rather than suffer this loop. This development takes months / years. **Baked acoustics break when geometry moves.** Destruction, procedural layout, and runtime changes make pre-computed or hand-placed acoustics immediately wrong. What the player hears stops matching what they see. ### How It Works The detector casts rays into the scene, classifies hits by distance (Close / Mid / Far / Outdoor), reads surface materials to select reverbs, and blends reverb naturally between rooms. Everything adapts at runtime to moving geometry, destructible walls, and changing environments. ### Key Features **Per-emitter acoustics.** Each sound source gets independent analysis. A gunshot indoors and footsteps outdoors in the same level get different reverb simultaneously – no zones. **Dynamic geometry.** Integrates with Chaos Destruction out of the box. When walls break, nearby detectors re-scan automatically. **Engine-agnostic. Middleware-agnostic.** The core detection engine is independent of any engine or audio middleware. Current integrations include UE Native Audio with a custom ER DSP, and Audiokinetic Wwise. Additional backends can be plugged in via adapters without changing the detection pipeline. ### Requirements * Unreal Engine 5.6.1 * Windows (Win64) * Audiokinetic Wwise 2024.1+ for Wwise integration (optional) *** Website: [excitedwaves.com](https://excitedwaves.com) · Contact: --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://excitedwaves.gitbook.io/excitedwaves-docs/excited-waves-acoustics.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.