Chapter 5 Low-Level Audio Services

This chapter explains how to use the low-level audio services of the Multimedia extensions to manage playback and recording of waveform and MIDI audio. For an overview of the audio services, see Chapter 3, “Introduction to Audio.”

This chapter covers the following topics:

Using low-level audio services

Playing waveform audio

Recording waveform audio

Playing MIDI audio

Recording MIDI audio

Using auxiliary audio devices

You should have a basic knowledge of digital audio and MIDI before reading this chapter. If you need additional information on these subjects, see “Further Reading” at the end of Chapter 3, “Introduction to Audio.”