About CRI Atom Craft

: "CRI Atom Craft" is an authoring tool that empowers sound designers and allows them to create complex sound data without requiring a heavy involvement from the programmers.

Features of CRI Atom Craft

DAW-like interface that enables intuitive sound authoring.
Separation between sound creation and program development, so that sound designers can work on their tasks independently from programmers.
Multi-platform support. The sound data created can be exported to different targets.
Platform-specific codecs can be used.
Target preview
The sound data created with CRI Atom Craft can be previewed on an actual device.
In-game preview
The wave data can be replaced and the playback parameters (e.g. volume) can be adjusted while previewing the game.
Support for interactive sound creation.
- Sequence
  Sounds can be placed on a timeline along with volume and pitch changes.
- AISAC
  Sounds that dynamically change based on what is happening in the game (e.g. engine sound, crowd cheers) can easily be created.
- Dynamic voice assignment
  Advanced voice control is possible thanks to voice limit groups.
- Categories
  Categories make it possible to control multiple sounds at once.
- Block playback
  A sequence can be cut into blocks that can be concatenated during playback based on specific conditions.
Bounce
It is possible to write the sound created and played back by CRI Atom Craft into a WAV file.

CRI Atom Craft's data flow

: The following graph shows the creation procedure for CRI ADX data using CRI Atom Craft.

Input and output files for CRI Atom Craft

Material files for CRI Atom Craft

A wavefile used in CRI Atom Craft is called a "material file".
Material files are managed as materials in the tool.
Wave files that meet the following conditions can be used as material files.


File type	WAV file (.wav) or AIFF file (.aif)
Number of channels	Up to six channels
Bit depth	16-bit

Output files for CRI Atom Craft

Building data for CRI ADX in CRI Atom Craft generates the three types of files described below.
These files are collectively called CueSheet binary files.


ACB file (*.acb)	It contains information about the cues, playback parameters, and wave data for memory playback. There is one ACB file per CueSheet.
AWB file (*.awb)	It contains the wave data used for streaming. There is one AWB file per CueSheet (if needed).
ACF file (*.acf)	It stores the global configuration of the project and CueSheet-independent information that is referenced from the ACB files. There is one ACF file per project.

Structure of output files for CRI Atom Craft