Sergey,

You can get the DLS1 spec from the MMA.  The URL is http:\\www.midi.org.  At
the end of the month, they will vote upon (and presumably approve) DLS Level
2.

DirectX 6.1 just shipped today (finally), and it contains DirectMusic -- a
set of Windows APIs to handle DLS and MIDI.  There is a DLS software synth
included (in fact, I believe we will give away the source as a reference
design).  The URL is http://www.microsoft.com/directx, but they haven't
updated the site in a few weeks.

Your Yamaha card (contains a DS1 chip right?) is one of the ones I'm working
with for the next release of DirectMusic, which will use  hardware synth
cards.  Last I heard, this will ship later this year (a beta DS1 driver and
an updated DirectMusic will be included in beta3 of Windows 2000, which will
come out in a month or two).

Martin Puryear
Kernel Audio Development
Windows 98 / "Windows 1900"

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sergey Batov [SMTP:batov@glasnet.ru]
> Sent:	Monday, January 11, 1999 5:36 PM
> To:	csound@maths.ex.ac.uk
> Subject:	DLS Level 1 (on PC)
> 
> Dear Csounders!
> 
> Not long ago I've bought PCI soudcard on YAMAHA YMF724A chip set.
> (Look at http://www.atrend.com.tw). The manufacturer promises
> "Downloadable Sounds (DLS) Level 1 support." There was not any soft for
> it,
> so
> I tried to find something in WWW. And I found Miles Sound Tools on
> .  This is a soft synthesizer and  it
> can use DLS Level 1 for playing MIDI-files on ANY soundcard
> with CODEC. DLS Level 1files can be made from .wav  or .aif by Awave
> (http://hem.passagen.se/fmj/fmjsoft.html).
> The questions are:
> 1) Can anybody recommend  another programs like Miles Sound Tools (I'm
> afraid  the results of  Miles Sound Tools are not the best)?
> 2) Is anywhere full description of DLS Level 1 format?
> 3) May be someone has soundcard like this? What about hardware support of
> DLS?
> 
> P.S. DLS Level 1 format allows to use soundcard as a sampler. Of course,
> Csound
> can do it much better!  Well, I just want to work out own opinion about
> DLS
> Level 1 and
> (may be) then to forget about it  for a long time.
> 
> Thank you,