public interface Soundbank
Soundbank
contains a set of Instruments
that can be loaded into a Synthesizer
.
Note that a Java Sound Soundbank
is different from a MIDI bank.
MIDI permits up to 16383 banks, each containing up to 128 instruments
(also sometimes called programs, patches, or timbres).
However, a Soundbank
can contain 16383 times 128 instruments,
because the instruments within a Soundbank
are indexed by both
a MIDI program number and a MIDI bank number (via a Patch
object). Thus, a Soundbank
can be thought of as a collection
of MIDI banks.
Soundbank
includes methods that return String
objects containing the sound bank's name, manufacturer, version number, and
description. The precise content and format of these strings is left
to the implementor.
Different synthesizers use a variety of synthesis techniques. A common
one is wavetable synthesis, in which a segment of recorded sound is
played back, often with looping and pitch change. The Downloadable Sound
(DLS) format uses segments of recorded sound, as does the Headspace Engine.
Soundbanks
and Instruments
that are based on
wavetable synthesis (or other uses of stored sound recordings) should
typically implement the getResources()
method to provide access to these recorded segments. This is optional,
however; the method can return an zero-length array if the synthesis technique
doesn't use sampled sound (FM synthesis and physical modeling are examples
of such techniques), or if it does but the implementor chooses not to make the
samples accessible.
Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
---|---|
String |
getDescription()
Obtains a textual description of the sound bank, suitable for display.
|
Instrument |
getInstrument(Patch patch)
Obtains an
Instrument from the given Patch . |
Instrument[] |
getInstruments()
Obtains a list of instruments contained in this sound bank.
|
String |
getName()
Obtains the name of the sound bank.
|
SoundbankResource[] |
getResources()
Extracts a list of non-Instrument resources contained in the sound bank.
|
String |
getVendor()
Obtains a
string naming the company that provides the
sound bank |
String |
getVersion()
Obtains the version string for the sound bank.
|
String getName()
String
naming the sound bankString getVersion()
String
that indicates the sound bank's versionString getVendor()
string
naming the company that provides the
sound bankString getDescription()
String
that describes the sound bankSoundbankResource[] getResources()
Instrument[] getInstruments()
Instruments
in this
SoundBank
If the sound bank contains no instruments, returns an array of length 0.Synthesizer.getLoadedInstruments()
,
getInstrument(Patch)
Instrument getInstrument(Patch patch)
Instrument
from the given Patch
.patch
- a Patch
object specifying the bank index
and program change numbernull
if the
sound bank doesn't contain that instrumentgetInstruments()
,
Synthesizer.loadInstruments(Soundbank, Patch[])
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