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# 1.2 What is MIDAS?

What is MIDAS Sound System anyway?

MIDAS is a multichannel digital music and sound engine. It provides you with an unlimited number of channels of digital audio that you can use to play music, sound effects, speech or sound streams. MIDAS is portable across a wide range of operating systems, and provides an identical API in all supported environments, making it ideal for cross-platform software development.

MIDAS is free for noncommercial usage, read the file `license.txt` included in the MIDAS distribution for a detailed license. Commercial licenses are also available.