This tutorial pertains only to applications written in C++. See DirectMusic Visual Basic Tutorials.

This tutorial is a guide to setting up the simplest possible DirectMusic application, one that just 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 divided into the following steps:

• Step 1: Initialize COM
• Step 2: Create the Performance
• Step 3: Create the Loader
• Step 4: Load the MIDI File
• Step 5: Play the MIDI File
• Step 6: Shut Down DirectMusic