Junglevision Software announces the release of Sound Drive, a programmer's library which provides a simple interface to sound cards for music and digitized effects. Junglevision Software Sound Drive for the PC DOS environment are to be released August 1, 1994. Demonstration disks will be available July 1, 1994. Sound Drive FEATURES: SOUND CARDS: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE32 Mediavision Pro Audio Studio 16 Gravis Ultrasound MPU-401 General MIDI (music only) Windows Sound System GENERAL: Simultaneous music and digitized sounds. Play multiple '.mid' files simultaneously if the '.mid' files have the same tempo. Digitized drum samples with FM music. Pause, continue, and looping for music and sound. FM music using OPL2 or OPL3 chipset. Patches assigned according to General MIDI standard. 16 MIDI channels. 32 bit native code - DOS4GW extender with Watcom C. FM MUSIC: FM voices assigned dynamically to either 2 or 4 operator patches. OPL2 mono mode and OPL3 stereo mode. Pitchwheel range defaults to General MIDI. Programmable pitchwheel range. Midi expression / panpot / volume / velocity control changes. MIDI: Plays standard type 0 and type 1 “.mid” files. Ticks per beat in midfile supported. System exclusive supported with MPU-401. DIGITIZED SOUND: Assign digitized effects to midi patches. WAV file sizes up to the available physical ram. 8 bit stereo multi-channel digital sound mixing with all sound cards. (MPU-401 excluded) Stereo position control for mono '.wav' files. Volume control for mono and stereo '.wav' files. Sound Blaster AWE32 supports simultaneous EMU sound effects and Sound Blaster 16 sound effects. HARDWARE: All IRQ, DMA, and I/O Options are available on supported sound cards. Auto detection of IRQ and DMA for Pro Audio Studio 16 via mvsound.sys. Supports BLASTER and ULTRASND environment variables. Gravis Ultrasound support via ultramid.exe. VDS (virtual DMA support) for sound in a Microsoft Windows DOS box. Digital mixing in hardware with Ultrasound and Sound Blaster AWE32. System timers are updated accurately PROGRAMMER INTERFACE: Callback trigger for midi. Ability to specify sequential WAV files. Unified programming interface for all sound cards. PUBLISHER PACKAGE: License for a single title or all titles released with a year. DEVELOPER PACKAGES: A. Library package Documentation Library and include files Player program Digitzed drum patches Example source code Patch editor for OPL2 / OPL3 B. Source package Same as library package. Source code MUSICIAN PACKAGE: Hear the final result and compose with your current sequencer. (requires additional PC with sound card and MPU-401 interface) Can use FAT Man patches for OPL2 / OPL3. Player program. Patch editor for OPL2 / OPL3.