You need to look into SOUNDBANKS I am unsure of their availability these days but a decent Sound card like the Creat¡ve sound cards came with SOUNDFONTS aka SOUNDBANKS that you could possibly manipulate from an application however they. Also had their own playback tool...
These may be depricated these days as they were designed for older sound systems and I suppose most games switched to digital sound files over machine dependency as the sound outputs varied machine to machine...
I could be wrong here but either way I hope that helped...