DirectMusic for Managed DirectX

Hi, I have a question.

Is there any plans to implement DirectMusic for Managed DirectX? If so, I would like to know when. I'm a fan of DirectMusic and interactive music is important for games.

Final Fantasy VIII (from Square Soft but formly SquareEnix, however, I like calling Square Soft since I don't know about Enix that much) makes use of DirectMusic for DirectX 6.1.

[400 byte] By [GraysonPeddie] at [2008-1-26]

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# 1

Grayson Peddie wrote:
Hi, I have a question.
Is there any plans to implement DirectMusic for Managed DirectX? If so, I would like to know when. I'm a fan of DirectMusic and interactive music is important for games.

There are no plans to support DirectMusic in Managed DirectX.

PaulBleisch at 2007-9-9 >

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# 2

I was about to ask about this. Too bad MDX won't be getting DirectMusic. C++ is looking more and more attractive for me.

Chordless at 2007-9-9 >

# 3

I'm totally new to DirectX so; what do we use instead of DirectMusic? DirectSound?
Thanks in advance!

Marlun at 2007-9-9 >

# 4

Okay, thanks. Now...how am I going to go about this with DirectSound? I like to create interactive music with the same instruments regardless of which sound card users have. I could go with WMA but that's not an option.

GraysonPeddie at 2007-9-9 >

# 5

Ah well, there's always interop. Which by the way I shall be using soon for DMusic. I think...

Exellon at 2007-9-9 >

# 6

And what about midi? How can I manage midi port/device in/out without directmusic?

Ivan68 at 2007-9-9 >

# 7

You could start looking at the new beta assemblies and the XACT system.