I'm putting together a C# .Net forms project on win2k. The application
requires some sort of horn sound. I've never implemented any audio in .Net,
so I'm not sure how best to accomplish this.
It's an application that works with a wireless barcode scanner, in a
warehouse environment. The user could be potentially 20 or 30 ft. from the
PC. If the user scans something improperly, the app should sound a 'horn' to
notify the user. I'm trying to accomplish this with the standard sound card
and speakers supplied with the PC.
The optimal solution would be to play my horn sound at a volume level
totally (or at least mostly) independent of any other sounds being played
through the sound card and speakers. But I don't think this can be done -
all wave files, for example, play at the same mixer level in windows. Any
ideas?
AFAIK, I could:
1) use the PlaySound() api to play a .wav file. The downside of this is that
the volume of all windows sounds will be approximately the same as the horn
sound.
2) Use waveOutSetVolum e() in combination with PlaySound() to raise and lower
the wave volume before and after playing the horn sound. The downside is
that the app is increasing the volume of all wave audio while the horn sound
is being played.
3) Create a horn sound that is a MIDI sound and use the MCI APIs to play the
sound. Then the windows mixer can be used to adjust levels between the MIDI
and wave channels.
4) Use a second sound card, and use PlaySound() with this device.
I'm curious:
1) Is there a way to control the relative level of individual wave sounds,
such that I can play a specific wave file something like 10 times louder
than the rest of the windows sounds?
2) Is it possible to create my own mixing device, such that I can play a
wave sound without regard to the rest of the volumes already defined by the
windows mixer?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
_______________ ___________
Rob Gravereaux
Principal Developer
Glen Road Systems, Inc. http://www.grsinc.com 4  3469 
Robert,
There are ways to control the volume in code, you could increase the
volume to max, play your horn.wav, then return the volume to what it was
before. I don't know what's available in the framework, but look at the
waveoutSetVolum e Win32 API.
--
Floyd Burger
"Robert Gravereaux" <Ro************ ********@grsinc .com> wrote in message
news:ul******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl... I'm putting together a C# .Net forms project on win2k. The application
requires some sort of horn sound. I've never implemented any audio in
..Net, so I'm not sure how best to accomplish this.
It's an application that works with a wireless barcode scanner, in a
warehouse environment. The user could be potentially 20 or 30 ft. from the
PC. If the user scans something improperly, the app should sound a 'horn'
to notify the user. I'm trying to accomplish this with the standard sound
card and speakers supplied with the PC.
The optimal solution would be to play my horn sound at a volume level
totally (or at least mostly) independent of any other sounds being played
through the sound card and speakers. But I don't think this can be done -
all wave files, for example, play at the same mixer level in windows. Any
ideas?
AFAIK, I could:
1) use the PlaySound() api to play a .wav file. The downside of this is
that the volume of all windows sounds will be approximately the same as the
horn sound.
2) Use waveOutSetVolum e() in combination with PlaySound() to raise and
lower the wave volume before and after playing the horn sound. The downside is
that the app is increasing the volume of all wave audio while the horn
sound is being played.
3) Create a horn sound that is a MIDI sound and use the MCI APIs to play
the sound. Then the windows mixer can be used to adjust levels between the
MIDI and wave channels.
4) Use a second sound card, and use PlaySound() with this device.
I'm curious:
1) Is there a way to control the relative level of individual wave sounds,
such that I can play a specific wave file something like 10 times louder
than the rest of the windows sounds?
2) Is it possible to create my own mixing device, such that I can play a
wave sound without regard to the rest of the volumes already defined by
the windows mixer?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
_______________ ___________
Rob Gravereaux
Principal Developer
Glen Road Systems, Inc.
http://www.grsinc.com
That's certainly an option. The downside is that the volume for all wave
sounds gets modified, including all windows sounds.
I'd rather have a solution that allows me to play a sound at a level totally
independent of the level of any other audio.
"Floyd Burger" <fl***@adelphia .not> wrote in message
news:eQ******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P09.phx.gbl... Robert,
There are ways to control the volume in code, you could increase the
volume to max, play your horn.wav, then return the volume to what it was
before. I don't know what's available in the framework, but look at the
waveoutSetVolum e Win32 API.
--
Floyd Burger
"Robert Gravereaux" <Ro************ ********@grsinc .com> wrote in message
news:ul******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl... I'm putting together a C# .Net forms project on win2k. The application
requires some sort of horn sound. I've never implemented any audio in .Net, so I'm not sure how best to accomplish this.
It's an application that works with a wireless barcode scanner, in a
warehouse environment. The user could be potentially 20 or 30 ft. from
the PC. If the user scans something improperly, the app should sound a
'horn' to notify the user. I'm trying to accomplish this with the standard sound
card and speakers supplied with the PC.
The optimal solution would be to play my horn sound at a volume level
totally (or at least mostly) independent of any other sounds being
played through the sound card and speakers. But I don't think this can be
done - all wave files, for example, play at the same mixer level in windows.
Any ideas?
AFAIK, I could:
1) use the PlaySound() api to play a .wav file. The downside of this is
that the volume of all windows sounds will be approximately the same as the
horn sound.
2) Use waveOutSetVolum e() in combination with PlaySound() to raise and
lower the wave volume before and after playing the horn sound. The downside is
that the app is increasing the volume of all wave audio while the horn
sound is being played.
3) Create a horn sound that is a MIDI sound and use the MCI APIs to play
the sound. Then the windows mixer can be used to adjust levels between the
MIDI and wave channels.
4) Use a second sound card, and use PlaySound() with this device.
I'm curious:
1) Is there a way to control the relative level of individual wave
sounds, such that I can play a specific wave file something like 10 times louder
than the rest of the windows sounds?
2) Is it possible to create my own mixing device, such that I can play a
wave sound without regard to the rest of the volumes already defined by
the windows mixer?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
_______________ ___________
Rob Gravereaux
Principal Developer
Glen Road Systems, Inc.
http://www.grsinc.com
Robert,
I haven't played with this before, but it looks like DirectSound can give
you volume control for a specific buffer (your wav file). http://tinyurl.com/3xsv5 MSDN says there is a managed DirectX9 available.
It won't help much if the operator has turned the system volume down though.
Have you thought about making a secondary horn that's independent of the
system audio system? You could use the serial port to drive it, raise DTR,
which causes the DTR pin to be energized with 5v (.5amp). Using a relay or
transistor you could rig up a car horn or something of that ilk. I use
something similar here, but it drives a electric motor instead of sounding a
horn when DTR is energized.
--
Floyd Burger
"Robert Gravereaux" <Ro************ ********@grsinc .com> wrote in message
news:u3******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... That's certainly an option. The downside is that the volume for all wave
sounds gets modified, including all windows sounds.
I'd rather have a solution that allows me to play a sound at a level
totally independent of the level of any other audio.
"Floyd Burger" <fl***@adelphia .not> wrote in message
news:eQ******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P09.phx.gbl... Robert,
There are ways to control the volume in code, you could increase the
volume to max, play your horn.wav, then return the volume to what it was
before. I don't know what's available in the framework, but look at the
waveoutSetVolum e Win32 API.
--
Floyd Burger
"Robert Gravereaux" <Ro************ ********@grsinc .com> wrote in message
news:ul******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl... I'm putting together a C# .Net forms project on win2k. The application
requires some sort of horn sound. I've never implemented any audio in .Net, so I'm not sure how best to accomplish this.
It's an application that works with a wireless barcode scanner, in a
warehouse environment. The user could be potentially 20 or 30 ft. from
the PC. If the user scans something improperly, the app should sound a 'horn' to notify the user. I'm trying to accomplish this with the standard sound
card and speakers supplied with the PC.
The optimal solution would be to play my horn sound at a volume level
totally (or at least mostly) independent of any other sounds being played through the sound card and speakers. But I don't think this can be done - all wave files, for example, play at the same mixer level in windows. Any ideas?
AFAIK, I could:
1) use the PlaySound() api to play a .wav file. The downside of this
is that the volume of all windows sounds will be approximately the same as the
horn sound.
2) Use waveOutSetVolum e() in combination with PlaySound() to raise and
lower the wave volume before and after playing the horn sound. The downside
is that the app is increasing the volume of all wave audio while the horn
sound is being played.
3) Create a horn sound that is a MIDI sound and use the MCI APIs to
play the sound. Then the windows mixer can be used to adjust levels between the
MIDI and wave channels.
4) Use a second sound card, and use PlaySound() with this device.
I'm curious:
1) Is there a way to control the relative level of individual wave sounds, such that I can play a specific wave file something like 10 times
louder than the rest of the windows sounds?
2) Is it possible to create my own mixing device, such that I can play
a wave sound without regard to the rest of the volumes already defined
by the windows mixer?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
_______________ ___________
Rob Gravereaux
Principal Developer
Glen Road Systems, Inc.
http://www.grsinc.com
I've looked into DirectSound with the managed classes. The volume control is
an attenuation. So a sound can only be made quieter than the associated
mixer levels, not louder.
We've done things in the past using the serial port to drive external
devices. In this case we're trying to do something as simple as possible.
We've got a PC with a sound card & speakers - we figured we could get it to
play a horn type sound without much trouble. We've also got a PLC connected
to the system to control some conveyor, so worst case we'll have the PLC
sound a buzzer. But again that's additional hardware and programming on the
PLC side of things.
"Floyd Burger" <fl***@adelphia .not> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP10.phx.gbl. .. Robert,
I haven't played with this before, but it looks like DirectSound can
give you volume control for a specific buffer (your wav file).
http://tinyurl.com/3xsv5 MSDN says there is a managed DirectX9 available.
It won't help much if the operator has turned the system volume down
though. Have you thought about making a secondary horn that's independent of the
system audio system? You could use the serial port to drive it, raise
DTR, which causes the DTR pin to be energized with 5v (.5amp). Using a relay or
transistor you could rig up a car horn or something of that ilk. I use
something similar here, but it drives a electric motor instead of sounding
a horn when DTR is energized.
--
Floyd Burger
"Robert Gravereaux" <Ro************ ********@grsinc .com> wrote in message
news:u3******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... That's certainly an option. The downside is that the volume for all wave
sounds gets modified, including all windows sounds.
I'd rather have a solution that allows me to play a sound at a level totally independent of the level of any other audio.
"Floyd Burger" <fl***@adelphia .not> wrote in message
news:eQ******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P09.phx.gbl... Robert,
There are ways to control the volume in code, you could increase the
volume to max, play your horn.wav, then return the volume to what it
was before. I don't know what's available in the framework, but look at
the waveoutSetVolum e Win32 API.
--
Floyd Burger
"Robert Gravereaux" <Ro************ ********@grsinc .com> wrote in
message news:ul******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...
> I'm putting together a C# .Net forms project on win2k. The
application > requires some sort of horn sound. I've never implemented any audio
in .Net,
> so I'm not sure how best to accomplish this.
>
> It's an application that works with a wireless barcode scanner, in a
> warehouse environment. The user could be potentially 20 or 30 ft.
from the > PC. If the user scans something improperly, the app should sound a 'horn' to
> notify the user. I'm trying to accomplish this with the standard
sound card
> and speakers supplied with the PC.
>
> The optimal solution would be to play my horn sound at a volume
level > totally (or at least mostly) independent of any other sounds being
played > through the sound card and speakers. But I don't think this can be
done - > all wave files, for example, play at the same mixer level in
windows. Any > ideas?
>
> AFAIK, I could:
> 1) use the PlaySound() api to play a .wav file. The downside of this
is that
> the volume of all windows sounds will be approximately the same as
the horn
> sound.
> 2) Use waveOutSetVolum e() in combination with PlaySound() to raise
and lower
> the wave volume before and after playing the horn sound. The
downside is > that the app is increasing the volume of all wave audio while the
horn sound
> is being played.
> 3) Create a horn sound that is a MIDI sound and use the MCI APIs to play the
> sound. Then the windows mixer can be used to adjust levels between
the MIDI
> and wave channels.
> 4) Use a second sound card, and use PlaySound() with this device.
>
> I'm curious:
> 1) Is there a way to control the relative level of individual wave
sounds, > such that I can play a specific wave file something like 10 times louder > than the rest of the windows sounds?
> 2) Is it possible to create my own mixing device, such that I can
play a > wave sound without regard to the rest of the volumes already defined by the
> windows mixer?
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> _______________ ___________
> Rob Gravereaux
> Principal Developer
> Glen Road Systems, Inc.
> http://www.grsinc.com
>
>
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