Audio

The Microsoft SoundLab is a group at Microsoft that supports our needs for sounds and sound effects, mostly for video games. They have handled most of the Microsoft Game Studio sounds, for games like Halo, Fable, and Forza. Mike Caviezel walks us through the SoundLab and talks about what it's…

We've all cringed as a hopelessly out of tune contestant appears on the latest episode of “American Idol.” Occasionally, there's a contestant who manages to be pitch perfect all the way through—right until they flub the final note. And in the cutthroat world of televised auditions, sing one…

Whenever I’m travelling, one of the first things I do when I get into my hotel room is look for an MP3 player dock. Having my own music playing in the room really helps to settle me in, but sadly, not all hotels provide a dock for guest use. I really should pick up some portable speakers, but the…

For the longest time, I've been baffled by the concept of sound in computing. How in the world is sound store? How is it played back? In classic Coding4Fun style, we'll learn by doing in this article—by building a wave oscillator application. Optional Reading I cover the basics of this article in…

This article describes a quick and easy application to play Halloween tricks on the PC. Introduction This article describes “Gremlin”, a quick and easy application that lets you play Halloween tricks. When your victim's computer is idle, Gremlin moves windows around on the screen, changes the…

In this article I demonstrate how to record from the microphone in .NET, with support for setting the recording level, trimming noise from the start and end, visualizing the waveform in WPF and converting to MP3. Audio Recording in .NET The .NET framework does not provide any direct support for…

One of the central engineering and design themes of Windows 7 is efficiency: efficiency in user experience (things work as and when expected, reliably), efficiency in processing, execution, diagnostics, performance, scheduling, window managment, graphics, desktop search, etc. Well, not…

This article will take you through some of the steps to creating the basics for writing games with Silverlight. This is a simple shooter style game that contains some of the building blocks for games that require abilities such as vectors, collision detection, a game loop, movement, and keyboard…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:  - Joel Bennett - Control your PC with your voice and PowerShell, via Alvin Ashcraft - Frank La Vigne - Speech Recognition in WPF - Dan Waters - Great 4-part series on Audio Programming -…

Dan Waters has created a 4 part series on audio programming with .Net.   Some point in the future, he'll be posting a full article with WPF on Coding4Fun as well! How Audio Data is Represented Demystifying the WAV Format Synthesizing Simple Wave Audio using C# Algorithms for Different…