Firelight Technologies is the industry leader in gaming audio systems. Firelight’s FMOD lines of tools — FMOD Studio, FMOD Designer and the FMOD Ex Programmer’s API – are globally regarded as the leading tools for the creation and playback of interactive audio. The FMOD product line has gained a strong reputation for its ease of use, powerful software-mixed architecture and comprehensive cross-platform support.

Today, FMOD products are widely used within the gaming industry. The sound of over 1500 different titles, FMOD Interactive Audio Middleware has been used in games series such as: World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Crysis, Bioshock, Forza, Guitar Hero and other hit titles such as Dragon Age and L.A Noire. Users of FMOD products include: Activision Blizzard, Disney, Microsoft, Sony, Ubisoft, THQ, Take 2 Interactive, Unity, Crytek, Havok. Outside of the gaming industry, FMOD is used in the simulation sector in the domestic and defense industries and auto industry.

FMOD Studio is a powerful audio content creation tool for games which features a familiar Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) style interface, comprehensive mixing desk, DSP effects and support for a wide range of game platforms.

With Dolby Surround Matrix encoding included, FMOD Studio enables 5.1 mixing to support surround sound over analogue stereo output jacks, and also spatialize the audio for headphone users, allowing for ‘surround sound’ and better positioning on mobile devices.