Programming Guide for DirectSound

[The feature associated with this page, DirectSound, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by XAudio2 and Audio Graphs. These newer frameworks have been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use XAudio2 and Audio Graphs instead of DirectSound, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]

This section is a guide to using the DirectSound application programming interface (API) in application development.

Information is presented in the following topics:

• DirectSound Playback Objects

• DirectSound Devices

• DirectSound Buffers

• Using WAV Data

• 3D Sound

• Using Effects

• Capturing Waveforms

See Also

• Introduction to DirectSound

• Advanced Topics in DirectSound

• DirectSound C/C++ Reference