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Handmade Hero Day 007 - Initializing DirectSound

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  • Presented by Casey Muratori, creator of Handmade Hero
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Game developmentGraphics and audioAudio and DSPGame programming

Casey Muratori demonstrates how to initialize and write to DirectSound buffers for low-level audio programming on Windows.

Day 007 of coding on Handmade Hero. See handmadehero.org for details.

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What people say. Recommended as a detailed reference for understanding how digital audio buffers work and how to initialize sound APIs.

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u/DanielZaidanin r/C_Programming • Recommends

On “Audio visualizer using SLD2 help”

Sound (after decompression) is store in a bunch of samples. Usually 44100 samples per second, but 48000 is also common. The sample is usually a signed 16-bit integers but other types can also be used. After you understand that (and see in your code how it's structured) it becomes an easier data-transformation task. A good sound reference tutorial is this video: [video I hope that helps you a bit. ;)
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u/ArtOfBBQin r/C_Programming • Recommends

On “How can i make music using C programming?”

Is your OS MS windows? Here is casey muratori setting up directsound at the start of his game project
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