A friend of mine is programming in Visual Basic. Apparently VB has no command built in to send note info to the sound card (it can open a wave or midi file). He wants to send individual "play" commands to the card for chime like sound effects. Anybody know how to do this?
Although playing with Visual Basic since quite some time I never tried to do anything with sound. I suppose it has something to do with the use of 'libraries'. The problem is to find out which ones and to know how to use them. A good start might be
http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/midisoft/
Good luck !
Yes ... me again. Sorry but links to midismpl.exe and llstream.exe in the page mentioned in Reply 1 are not correct.
Use these ones :
<http://support.microsoft.com/support/KB/ARTICLES/Q181/3/60.asp>
<http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q186/4/93.asp>
or send me an e-mail so that I can forward you the sample-files.
Thanks to Rene for the quick response, and to all the others that make this forum so useful and at times, enlightening.