Miles Sound System SDK 7.2a

Miles Sound Player

Discussion

The Miles Sound Player is an easy-to-use application for Win32 and Win64 that can play PCM wave files, IMA ADPCM wave files, MPEG Layer 3 files, Ogg Vorbis files, MIDI files, and XMIDI files. It can play any of the MIDI types with the system's MIDI hardware or with the MSS software synthesizer. The Miles Sound Player is available for Windows or MacOS.

This application is launched from the Miles Sound Studio when you choose to play a sound file.

Controls:

The slider allows you to both view and change the current playback position.

The CPU indicator tells you what percentage of the CPU is being used by the digital processor and/or software synthesizer.

The Filter switch turns on and off sound filtering - filtering takes a little extra CPU time.

The Reverb switch turns on and off global reverb - reverb also takes extra CPU time.

The Rate pull down allows you to choose the rate for digital synthesis - the faster the rate, the more CPU time is required.

The 16-bit switch turns on and off 16-bit output mode - 16-bit quality takes very little extra CPU time.

The Stereo switch turns on and off stereo output mode - stereo takes extra CPU time.

The Save Portion button allows a portion of an MP3 file to be clipped and saved with the loop-editor control. (For more information on auditioning loops in digital audio files with the Miles Sound Player, see the I'm getting a glitch when I loop an MP3 or ADPCM file - what can I do? FAQ.)

The MIDI pull down allows you to choose five different MIDI playback options:

"Auto-choose MIDI device": tells the player to use the system MIDI hardware for normal MIDI and XMIDI sequences, and to use the software-synthesizer for XMIDI files with embedded DLS data.

"Use MIDI hardware": tells the player to use the system MIDI hardware in all cases.

"Use software synthesizer": tells the player to use the Miles software synthesizer in all cases.

"Use Vortex DLS hardware": tells the player to use the Aureal Vortex DLS hardware for playback.

"Use SonicVibes DLS hardware": tells the player to use the S3 SonicVibes DLS hardware for playback. To use the software synthesizer with normal MIDI and XMIDI sequences, you must also choose a DLS file as the instrument set - click the "GM DLS file..." button to choose this DLS file.

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