Audio variables

MAYA_AUDIO_LIBRARY

By default, this variable is set to 2 to use the OpenAL audio library, which supports multiple track audio. Set to 1 if you want to use the audio library used in earlier versions of Maya.

MAYA_AUDIO_OPENAL_DEVICE

This variable provides a string which lets you specify the OpenAL device driver to use. The system default driver is used by default.

(Linux) On Linux this can be set to any valid audio device available on your system, for example:

PulseAudio Default
ALSA Default

TipTo query the devices available on your system, run the testMayaAudio application available in the /bin sub-directory wherever Maya is installed (by default: /usr/autodesk/maya2013-x64/bin/testMayaAudio). See also Set up audio on Linux.