Toshiba Satellite 2650 - Manual (Page 89)

7-2 Toshiba Utilities and Drivers User's Manual
Satellite 2610/2650 User's Manual – 07CHAP.DOC – ENGLISH – Printed on 18/09/99 as 07_261UK
Sound Driver for Windows
The sound driver is designed specifically for digital reproduction of
sound. They support the following:
Recording/Playback application
Wave files
MIDI files
DirectSound
Sound Blaster compatibility
Recording/Playback application
A sound recorder application lets you easily record from a variety of
sources including microphone, CD player, wave files (*.wav) and MIDI
devices.
Wave files
The drivers support digital wave files (*.wav) for sound play back and
recording (full duplex). The quality of wave recordings can be set to CD,
radio or telephone.
MIDI files
The drivers support recording and playback of Musical Instrument Digital
Interface (MIDI) files. MIDI is an interface between a musical instrument
and digital recorder. The MIDI format uses sequencer software to assign
a digital value to a musical tone, which can be interpreted as a variety of
instruments. The device or software interpreting a tone could sound like
either a piano or a violin, for example. A MIDI application can be
accessed through the Multimedia icon in the Windows Control Panel.
DirectSound
DirectSound is a Microsoft Corp. sound recording and playback standard
that is derived from DirectX®. Sound applications use DirectSound’s
Application Programming Interface for the following functions:
1. Timing for sound mixer applications.
2. Hardware acceleration
3. Direct access to sound reproduction devices
4. Three-dimensional sound functions (DirectSound3D)
5. Sound capture
The sound drivers and DirectX6.x combined provide support for
DirectSound. Refer to the Microsoft Internet site for details.
Sound Blaster compatibility
The sound board is compatible with Sound Blaster, so it can play sound
from MS-DOS-based game software.