Tutorial 1: Playing a MIDI File

This tutorial is a guide to setting up the simplest possible DirectMusic application, one that simply plays a primary segment. In this example the segment represents a MIDI file, but the process of loading and playing the data would be exactly the same if the source were a segment authored in a tool such as DirectMusic Producer.

The tutorial is broken down into the following steps:

• Step 1: Initializing COM
• Step 2: Creating the Performance
• Step 3: Creating the Loader
• Step 4: Loading the MIDI File
• Step 5: Playing the MIDI File
• Step 6: Shutting Down DirectMusic