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From: "Alex Herbert" <alex@herbs.dabsol.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound
Subject: Re: Loading Sounds
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:47:33 +0100
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Omar Metwally <Metwally7@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way I can load a .VAG file directly to my program to be
> played?   If so, please give me code examples or other people's code
> which I can look at.  And if I can't load .VAG files directly, what
> sound files should I convert my original .WAV to so I can load music
> directly into my game (and what tools are needed)?
> Thank you.
>

You can't use VAGs directly.  VAGs contain the raw sample data.  You need to
package your VAGs together into a VAB which holds keyboard mapping data.
The PSX sound system is very music orientated and more like a synth or
pro-sampler in it's configuration.  (See my reply to your following post -
"Mkvab".)


Herbs