Implementing Game Audio Assets: Using the JavaFX AudioClip Class Audio Sequencing Engine - Beginning Java 8 Games Development - page 476

Figure 15-8 . Use the Tracks Stereo Track to Mono algorithm to combine the stereo samples into one Mono

sample

What I want you to do before you use this stereo-to-mono algorithm is to click on
the Play transport button at the top of Audacity, and listen to the stereo audio asset
carefully, a couple of times. Next, go ahead and invoke this stereo-to-mono track mer-
ging algorithm, using the menu sequence shown in Figure 15-8 . After you see a single
mono audio asset, which you can look ahead and see in Figure 15-9 , click on the Play
transport button again, and then listen to the audio sample, now that it is monaural, and
see if you can detect any difference whatsoever.
This difference is even more difficult to detect (if you even can) with specialized
sound effects. The Audacity 2.0.6 software package is a fully professional digital audio
editing, sweetening, and sound effects program, and as you can see here, you can
achieve professional game audio development results using the correct work process
with this software, which is why I had you download and install it during Chapter 1 . To
make sure you have the most powerful version of Audacity 2.0.6 possible, make sure
that you have all of the LADSPA , VST , Nyquist , LV2 , LAME , and FFMPEG plug-
ins downloaded, and then install them in the C:\Program Files\Audacity\Plug-Ins
folder, and restart Audacity.