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Play sound through a sound card
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Title: play sound through a sound card?
uses
MMSystem;
type
TVolumeLevel = 0..127;
procedure MakeSound(Frequency{Hz}, Duration{mSec}: Integer; Volume: TVolumeLevel);
{writes tone to memory and plays it}
var
WaveFormatEx: TWaveFormatEx;
MS: TMemoryStream;
i, TempInt, DataCount, RiffCount: integer;
SoundValue: byte;
w: double; // omega ( 2 * pi * frequency)
const
Mono: Word = $0001;
SampleRate: Integer = 11025; // 8000, 11025, 22050, or 44100
RiffId: string = 'RIFF';
WaveId: string = 'WAVE';
FmtId: string = 'fmt ';
DataId: string = 'data';
begin
if Frequency (0.6 * SampleRate) then
begin
ShowMessage(Format('Sample rate of %d is too Low to play a tone of %dHz',
[SampleRate, Frequency]));
Exit;
end;
with WaveFormatEx do
begin
wFormatTag := WAVE_FORMAT_PCM;
nChannels := Mono;
nSamplesPerSec := SampleRate;
wBitsPerSample := $0008;
nBlockAlign := (nChannels * wBitsPerSample) div 8;
nAvgBytesPerSec := nSamplesPerSec * nBlockAlign;
cbSize := 0;
end;
MS := TMemoryStream.Create;
with MS do
begin
{Calculate length of sound data and of file data}
DataCount := (Duration * SampleRate) div 1000; // sound data
RiffCount := Length(WaveId) + Length(FmtId) + SizeOf(DWORD) +
SizeOf(TWaveFormatEx) + Length(DataId) + SizeOf(DWORD) + DataCount; // file data
{write out the wave header}
Write(RiffId[1], 4); // 'RIFF'
Write(RiffCount, SizeOf(DWORD)); // file data size
Write(WaveId[1], Length(WaveId)); // 'WAVE'
Write(FmtId[1], Length(FmtId)); // 'fmt '
TempInt := SizeOf(TWaveFormatEx);
Write(TempInt, SizeOf(DWORD)); // TWaveFormat data size
Write(WaveFormatEx, SizeOf(TWaveFormatEx)); // WaveFormatEx record
Write(DataId[1], Length(DataId)); // 'data'
Write(DataCount, SizeOf(DWORD)); // sound data size
{calculate and write out the tone signal} // now the data values
w := 2 * Pi * Frequency; // omega
for i := 0 to DataCount - 1 do
begin
SoundValue := 127 + trunc(Volume * sin(i * w / SampleRate)); // wt = w * i / SampleRate
Write(SoundValue, SizeOf(Byte));
end;
{now play the sound}
sndPlaySound(MS.Memory, SND_MEMORY or SND_SYNC);
MS.Free;
end;
end;
// How to call the function:
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
MakeSound(1200, 1000, 60);
end;
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