Microsoft DirectX 8.0 (Visual Basic)

Unloading Bands

Bands take up memory, so they should be unloaded when they are no longer in use. If you have enabled automatic downloading of bands, the bands associated with a segment are unloaded automatically when the segment stops. Otherwise, you can manually unload a band by calling the DirectMusicSegment8.Unload or DirectMusicBand8.Unload method for instruments downloaded by the corresponding Download method.

The DirectMusicPerformance8.CloseDown method also unloads any remaining downloaded instruments.