Mike Gorman

The Java Sound API, first introduced in J2SE 1.3, includes the package javax.sound.midi, which contains everything you need to be able to send and receive messages to and from any MIDI device visible to your operating system. The Java Sound Programmer Guide and the Java Sound Demo, both available for download from Sun, are excellent references that illustrate all the "nuts and bolts" of sending and receiving messages. This article provides a brief overview of working with the MIDI and sampled audio primitives of the Java Sound API, and then explores using those primitives to construct a basic multi-track MIDI/audio sequencer in Java. Programming with MIDI Basically, every message you send to or receive from a MIDI device is one or more bytes. The first byte is referred ... (more)