Cakewalk Releases DirectX Plug-In Development KitNew SDK Provides Enhanced Development Tools for the Coding and Deployment of DXi 2.0 Software Synthesizers, DirectX Automatable Plug- ins and MIDI FX May 30, 2002Cakewalk announced the immediate worldwide availability of the updated DirectX Plug-In Software Developers Kit (SDK), for authoring and delivering DXi software synthesizers, DirectX 8 automatable effects, and real-time MIDI FX plug-ins. The DirectX SDK is available for free from www.thedirectxfiles.com.
"With the new DirectX SDK, Cakewalk is making it easier than ever for professional and amateur developers to create automatable effects and soft synth plug-ins for the Windows platform," commented Ron Kuper, VP of engineering at Cakewalk.
The DirectX SDK includes a complete plug-in development tutorial, sample DX plug-ins, fully-editable source code, sample code for DXi host applications, a DirectX host shell application for plug-in testing, and all-new application wizards. The SDK makes DX plug-in development easier than ever, and significantly reduces production time by automating much of the busy-work associated with creating plug-ins.
New DXi 2.0 Capabilities
Included in the new DX SDK are tools and sample code for creating DXi software synthesizer plug-ins. Created by Cakewalk and based on Microsoft DirectX technology, new DXi is an extensible plug-in standard, supported by the leading third-party soft synth developers, including Alien Connections, Applied Acoustics Systems, Audio Simulation, BitHeads, Cakewalk, Edirol, FXpansion Audio, Image-Line, Live Update, Native Instruments, Ohm Force, OutSim, RBC Audio, rgcAudio, Roland Corp., STL, Sound Quest, SpeedSoft and others.
The DXi 2.0 specification has been extensively enhanced to provide new capabilities to SONAR 2.0 and other host applications, and to simplify the development of DXi software synthesizers. DXi 2.0 capabilities include: multiple audio output streams from a DXi, MIDI output from an MFX or DXi to the host, raw MIDI event processing, flexible, high-resolution time-conversion, per-channel patch, note, RPN and NRPN names, efficient processing of silent audio buffers, pitch marker access and other features.
Availability
Developers can download the free DirectX SDK from www.thedirectxfiles.com. For more information, visit their web site at www.cakewalk.com. |
