Patch.java

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package javax.sound.midi;

/**
 * A {@code Patch} object represents a location, on a MIDI synthesizer, into
 * which a single instrument is stored (loaded). Every {@code Instrument} object
 * has its own {@code Patch} object that specifies the memory location into
 * which that instrument should be loaded. The location is specified abstractly
 * by a bank index and a program number (not by any scheme that directly refers
 * to a specific address or offset in RAM). This is a hierarchical indexing
 * scheme: MIDI provides for up to 16384 banks, each of which contains up to 128
 * program locations. For example, a minimal sort of synthesizer might have only
 * one bank of instruments, and only 32 instruments (programs) in that bank.
 * <p>
 * To select what instrument should play the notes on a particular MIDI channel,
 * two kinds of MIDI message are used that specify a patch location: a
 * bank-select command, and a program-change channel command. The Java Sound
 * equivalent is the
 * {@link MidiChannel#programChange(int, int) programChange(int, int)} method of
 * {@code MidiChannel}.
 *
 * @author Kara Kytle
 * @see Instrument
 * @see Instrument#getPatch()
 * @see MidiChannel#programChange(int, int)
 * @see Synthesizer#loadInstruments(Soundbank, Patch[])
 * @see Soundbank
 * @see Sequence#getPatchList()
 */
public class Patch {

    /**
     * Bank index.
     */
    private final int bank;

    /**
     * Program change number.
     */
    private final int program;

    /**
     * Constructs a new patch object from the specified bank and program
     * numbers.
     *
     * @param  bank the bank index (in the range from 0 to 16383)
     * @param  program the program index (in the range from 0 to 127)
     */
    public Patch(int bank, int program) {
        this.bank = bank;
        this.program = program;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the number of the bank that contains the instrument whose
     * location this {@code Patch} specifies.
     *
     * @return the bank number, whose range is from 0 to 16383
     * @see MidiChannel#programChange(int, int)
     */
    public int getBank() {
        return bank;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the index, within a bank, of the instrument whose location this
     * {@code Patch} specifies.
     *
     * @return the instrument's program number, whose range is from 0 to 127
     * @see MidiChannel#getProgram
     * @see MidiChannel#programChange(int)
     * @see MidiChannel#programChange(int, int)
     */
    public int getProgram() {
        return program;
    }
}