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MIDI and Visual Basic

2000-12-13 05:00 am

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?

Re: MIDI and Visual Basic

Reply #1 – 2000-12-13 05:00 am

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 !

Re: MIDI and Visual Basic

Reply #2 – 2000-12-13 05:00 am

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.

Re: MIDI and Visual Basic

Reply #3 – 2000-12-14 05:00 am

Thanks to Rene for the quick response, and to all the others that make this forum so useful and at times, enlightening.