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The QuickTime Music Architecture (QTMA) allows QuickTime movies and other software to play individual musical notes, sequences of notes, and a broad range of sounds from a variety of instruments and synthesizers. With QTMA, you can also import Standard MIDI files and convert them into a QuickTime movie for easy playback. You can use the QuickTime music synthesizer, which is a software-based music synthesizer included with QuickTime, to generate sounds or music using a computer's built-in audio or sound card. You can also use the General MIDI component for playing music on a MIDI device attached to a serial port.

Carbon Specification for QuickTime Music Architecture This document lists the Carbon inclusion status of the QuickTime Music Architecture APIs. QuickTime 4.0 API Documentation: QuickTime Music Architecture This is the definitive documentation for QuickTime Music Architecture: what it is, what you can do with it, and how it works. This documentation also includes a complete API reference for the QuickTime Music Architecture.