The Power of DirectSound

DirectSound enables the playing of sounds with very low latency and gives applications a high level of control over hardware resources.

By using the DirectSound interfaces in your application, you can do the following:

• Play sounds from files or resources in WAV format.
• Play multiple sounds simultaneously.
• Assign high-priority sounds to hardware-controlled buffers.
• Locate sounds in a customizable 3-D environment.
• Add effects such as echo and chorus, and change effect parameters dynamically.
• Capture WAV sounds from a microphone or other input.

DirectSound works on Microsoft® Windows® 98, Microsoft® Windows® 2000, and later operating systems. Some functionality, chiefly capture effects, is available only on Microsoft Windows XP and later.

See Also

• DirectSound and DirectMusic