Documentation is wrong (CoreSystem)

Unity
#1

I’m just getting started with FMOD and saddened to see there’s no clear guide on recording microphone input from within Unity.

I’m trying to translate the C++ example, which is available at FMOD Studio API Windows\api\core\examples\record.cpp after downloading the FMOD Studio Suite → FMOD Engine (a bit too much trouble to see a code example), though I already had some trouble following the documentation due to a mismatch:

In this page https://www.fmod.com/resources/documentation-unity?version=2.1&page=api-runtimemanager.html#coresystem it says one can access the Core API using static FMOD.Studio.System CoreSystem();, which is within FMODUnity.RuntimeManager (as mentioned at the start of the page).

The problem is FMODUnity.RuntimeManager has no such member. What it does have is a static property (not method) called CoreSystem which returns an FMOD.System object (and not FMOD.Studio.System).

I’m a little worried that I’ll get stuck on something like this again soon enough but here’s hoping!

Thanks for the work you do, and please consider making a guide on recording microphone input from Unity! Thanks!

#2

You are correct, there are no C# Unity based guides for microphone recording in our package, as you’ve discovered, it is possible using the API but can be fairly involved. Our aim is to bundle this functionality into a new kind of instrument so its usage can be completely handled with only minor code involvement but that task hasn’t been scheduled just yet.

Thanks for pointing out the documentation issues, you are quite right that the accessors for both Studio System and Core System are properties not methods. Also, the docs for the Core System incorrectly say FMOD.Studio.System, when it should be FMOD.System. I’ve fixed these for our next release.