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DirectMusic
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<p>DirectMusic is a deprecated component of the Microsoft <a href="/facts/DirectX/jyy75wVN">DirectX</a> API that allows music and sound effects to be composed and played and provides flexible interactive control over the way they are played. Architecturally, DirectMusic is a high-level set of objects, built on top of <a href="/facts/DirectSound/PHnM8BYK">DirectSound</a>, that allow the programmer to play sound and music without needing to get quite as low-level as DirectSound. <a href="/facts/DirectSound/PHnM8BYK">DirectSound</a> allows for the capture and playback of digital sound samples, whereas DirectMusic works with message-based musical data. Music can be synthesized either in hardware, in the <a href="/facts/Microsoft_GS_Wavetable_SW_Synth/1dale4sj">Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth</a>, or in a custom synthesizer. </p>