The IDirectMusicBand interface represents a DirectMusic band object. A band is used to set the instrument choices and mixer settings for a set of PChannels. For an overview, see Using Bands.
Bands can come from several places. They can be stored directly in their own files, or embedded in a style's band list or a segment's band track.
The DirectMusicBand object also supports the IPersistStream and IDirectMusicObject interfaces for loading its data.
The IDirectMusicBand interface has the following methods:
| Segment creation | CreateSegment |
| Instrument data | Download |
| Unload |
All COM interfaces inherit the IUnknown interface methods. This interface supports the following three methods:
| IUnknown | AddRef |
| QueryInterface | |
| Release |
The LPDMUS_BAND type is defined as a pointer to the IDirectMusicBand interface.
typedef IDirectMusicBand __RPC_FAR *LPDMUS_BAND;
Windows NT/2000: Requires Windows 2000.
Windows 95/98: Requires Windows 95 or later. Available as a redistributable for Windows 95.
Header: Declared in dmusici.h.