Platform SDK: DirectX

Unloading Bands

[C++]

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:

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

[Visual Basic]

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.