deltamatrix

I am a third year Computer Engineering student writing an audio analysis program.

I would like to be able to read PCM data from the microphone and buffer it for analysis (NOT save it to a WAV file)

Unfortunately the only service available to achieve this in Windows seems to be the MCI service. But I can't make heads of tails of it.

Could anyone recommend any documentation that may help me solve this problem?

EDIT: This is not a do-my-homework question. I'm only asking for possible documentation or reference, not source code.

Animatronic

FMOD is really easy to get into, try that.