Compositional Music Elements

If you want to take full advantage of DirectX Audio, you won't play just MIDI and wave files. You'll take musical elements authored in DirectMusic Producer or a similar application and use them to create performances that can be varied or manipulated in countless ways.

Note   Throughout this documentation, the human composer of musical elements is referred to as the author, to avoid confusion with the composer object of DirectMusic. Similarly, musical elements are said to be authored rather than composed.

The following brief introduction to these elements and how they are authored is meant to give the application developer an understanding of the material being used in the performance. For a more detailed view, see the documentation for DirectMusic Producer. For information on how to incorporate these elements in an application, see Using Compositional Elements.

The following compositional elements are described:

• Styles
• Chordmaps
• Style-based Segments
• MIDI-based Segments
• Templates
• Bands