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PyWwise is an intuitive, fully-documented, Pythonic wrapper around the Wwise Authoring Application Programming Interface. It make uses of the waapi-client package (provided by Audiokinetic) to interface with Wwise. The goal of this open source project is to empower technical designers, programmers, software engineers, and virtually anyone who is interested in Python scripting for Wwise.

For comparison, let's take a look at some example code written with waapi-client vs pywwise. The script is using WAAPI to generated a test tone.

A: waapi-client

from waapi import WaapiClient
from pathlib import Path

client = WaapiClient()

path = Path("C:/Users/leozin/Test_SineWave.wav")

# Many of these args have constraints (e.g. a range or a set of valid values).
args = {"path": str(path), 
        "bitDepth": "float32", 
        "sampleRate": 192000, 
        "channelConfig": "7.1.4", 
        "attackTime": 0.02, 
        "sustainTime": 1.0, 
        "sustainLevel": 0.0, 
        "releaseTime": 0.02, 
        "waveform": "sine", 
        "frequency": 220.0}

results = client.call("ak.wwise.debug.generateToneWAV", args)

Many of the arguments in the args dictionary have constraints (e.g. a range or a set of valid values), which have to be manually checked (usually by visiting the WAAPI Reference) and handled. Also, notice that the code is not very Pythonic due to the names of the keys in the dictionaries.

B: pywwise

from pywwise import EBitDepth, ESampleRate, ESpeakerBitMask, EWaveform, SystemPath

ak = pywwise.new_waapi_connection()

# All constraints are enforced and handled automatically by PyWwise.
path = SystemPath("C:/Users/leozin/Test_SineWave.wav")
bit_depth = EBitDepth.FLOAT_32
sample_rate = ESampleRate.SR_192000
channel_config = ESpeakerBitMask.SEVEN_ONE_FOUR
attack_time = 0.02
sustain_time = 1.0
sustain_level = 0.0
release_time = 0.02
waveform = EWaveform.SINE
frequency = 220.0

results = ak.wwise.debug.generate_tone_wav(path, bit_depth, sample_rate, channel_config, attack_time, sustain_time, release_time, waveform, frequency)

Notice that the issue with constraints is fixed and the identifiers all look very Pythonic. Another advantage is that ak.wwise.debug.generate_tone_wav actually points to a fully documented function - in comparison to the URI in the basic waapi-client example.