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Custom Instruments

In this scenario, you want your music to be played on instruments not present in the standard set distributed with DirectMusic. You might even want to play nonmusical sound effects as notes. The support for the Downloadable Sounds standard offered by DirectMusic and DirectMusic Producer enables you to do this. You can create custom instruments and put them in collections for distribution with your content files. When the content is played using your DLS collection, it will sound the same on all systems.

When implementing this scenario, consider the following:

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