Comments on: Help! I’m Trapped in an Acid-Colored Wash of a Thousand General MIDI Pianos! http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/11/14/help-im-trapped-in-an-acid-colored-wash-of-a-thousand-general-midi-pianos/ The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:31:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: mo-seph http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/11/14/help-im-trapped-in-an-acid-colored-wash-of-a-thousand-general-midi-pianos/comment-page-1/#comment-695939 mo-seph Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:05:01 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/11/14/help-im-trapped-in-an-acid-colored-wash-of-a-thousand-general-midi-pianos/#comment-695939 I had good success using the javax.midi Sequencer classes for timing - you can add a callback listener which will respond to meta events so you can schedule actions. It should also be (relatively) easy to then slave it to another program, but I wouldn't bet much on it without testing. If you want to also use it to play midi notes, you can shove them into the buffer, but you do have to work a little ahead of realtime, which may or may not work for your app... I had good success using the javax.midi Sequencer classes for timing – you can add a callback listener which will respond to meta events so you can schedule actions. It should also be (relatively) easy to then slave it to another program, but I wouldn’t bet much on it without testing.

If you want to also use it to play midi notes, you can shove them into the buffer, but you do have to work a little ahead of realtime, which may or may not work for your app…

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