Bands take up memory, so they should be unloaded when they are no longer in use. If you have enabled automatic downloading of bands, the bands associated with a segment are unloaded automatically when the segment ends. Otherwise, you can manually unload a band in one of the following ways:

• Call the IDirectMusicBand::Unload method.
• Call the IDirectMusicSegment::SetParam method for the GUID_Unload parameter to unload the band in the segment's band track. You can also use IDirectMusicPerformance::SetParam to set this parameter on the primary segment, or IDirectMusicTrack::SetParam to set it directly on the band track. See Setting and Retrieving Track Parameters. For an example, see Tutorial 1, Step 6: Shut Down DirectMusic.

The IDirectMusicPerformance::CloseDown method also unloads any remaining downloaded instruments.

Bands take up memory, so they should be unloaded when they are no longer in use. If you have enabled automatic downloading of bands, the bands associated with a segment are unloaded automatically when the segment ends. Otherwise, you can manually unload a band by using the DirectMusicBand.Unload method.

The DirectMusicPerformance.CloseDown method also unloads any remaining downloaded instruments.