Just released - Ogg Vorbis support!!
New platform: Nintendo Wii!!
The Miles Sound System is one of the most popular game-technology libraries ever published.
It has appeared in over 4,500 games since
its first release in 1991!
John Miles first wrote MSS as a hardware driver layer for a handful of sound cards back in the early days of
MS-DOS gaming.
Today, Miles features a no-compromise API that integrates 2D and 3D digital audio with features like
streaming, environmental reverb, multistage DSP filtering, and ADPCM, Ogg
Vorbis, and MP3 decompression. (Breaking MP3
News...)
With Miles, you can add features as diverse as Red Book (CD audio) support, digital audio recording,
low-bandwidth Internet voice chat codecs, and 3D technologies like EAX, Dolby Surround, and SRS
Circle Surround to your game in no time at all.
Check out the SDK features page for more details.
Miles's coverage is so extensive that the only way to create a similar set of features would be to combine
half a dozen other sound products. You can't go wrong with Miles! Check out some of the good reasons to use Miles here.
Game Developer Magazine inducted the Miles Sound System into its Front Line Hall of
Fame the very first year - the first middleware package ever to receive that honor. Over the years, John Miles and Jeff Roberts have designed and refined the Miles API to be the best possible
solution for your game's audio needs. Miles works like the sound system that you would
write yourself. Everyone who uses the DirectSound API begins by writing their own wrapper layer, but
most developers use the Miles API directly - it's that easy and convenient!
The Miles Sound System is available for Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, MacOS 9 and MacOS X
(Carbon CFM and Mach-O), Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony
Playstation(R) 2, and now PLAYSTATION(R) 3!
You can download the Miles Sound Tools or the Miles demos, or call 425.893.4300 or email to try the Miles SDK today!
| Some of Miles' cooler features: |
- Comprehensive digital audio support with high-performance software mixing
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- Sophisticated MIDI with software and hardware support
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- Discrete multispeaker surround support for 5.1-channel receivers and many other configurations
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- Built-in software MIDI synthesizer
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- On-the-fly resampling and format conversion
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- DLS support for custom instrument banks
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- On-the-fly MP3 decompression with seamless looping capability and
Thomson-licensed patent rights
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- Interactive sound support with callbacks, tempo control, branching and more
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- New! On-the-fly Ogg Vorbis decompression!
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- Red book CD audio control
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- Over one dozen DSP audio filters, independently stackable up to eight deep
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- Digital audio recording support.
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- Software reverb with high-quality EAX emulation
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- Three Internet voice chat codecs
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3D digital audio positioning integrated seamlessly with our world-famous 2D API -- even when using
DirectSound3D and hardware EAX
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- High and low-level streaming support - stream from a disk in as few as 3 calls!
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