CyberSound

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CyberSound is a line of products created by InVision Interactive in May 1995, acting together as a comprehensive set of tools to enable sound on varying types of computer hardware.

CyberSound was designed to produce "high quality" audio with minimal processing costs, which was achieved by creating a software-based MIDI-esque waveform (or "instrument") table. The idea was that complex pieces of music could be constructed by saving sequences of individual notes, and then applying a specific insturment to each note to generate sound, as opposed to streaming an already constructed piece of audio from a CD-ROM.

This method leads to greater efficiency and lower memory and storage requirements.

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was a combination MIDI instrument set and software driver used by many Saturn games such as NiGHTS into Dreams, Dragon Force, and Sakura Taisen. It was also used on other platforms such as the PC and Macintosh. Since the samples are contained within the software itself for subsequent digital playback, you could also liken the mechanics to that of a Amiga music module or a software-driven wavetable like those currently being offered by Yamaha. The company that developed Cybersound, ,is now out of business, and searching newsgroups will reveal a number of people wondering what to do with a product that is no longer supported.