RFE: add loop() method(s) to Sequencer

Subject: [javasound] MIDI sequencing
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 19:11:04 -0000
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Hi,

I've been playing around with javasound and have managed to write a little keyboard app (just like the ToySynth example really), but now that I have come to try something a bit more adventurous, I've come up against a bit of a brick wall. Has anyone managed to sequence MIDI data using javasound yet?? I want to play a looping bar with given MIDI messages on given beats of the bar. I presume that you would use the Sequencer interface, but I've checked all through the API and I can't find any way to start a sequence or to put given messages at a certain point in a sequence...
If someone's figured this out already, I would be really greatful if you could let me know how its done,

Thanks,

Kelvin.

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:19:54 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)


Subject: [javasound] The TimeMBT class
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Hi,
Sorry to mail pretty much the same question again, but no-one got back
to me last time, and I'm sure someone out there must know! 

I'm trying to use the TimeMBT class from JavaSound so that I can play
looped MIDI data. I create a new TimeMBT object with the following code
:

TimeMBT timeMBT = new TimeMBT(16, 100, 1);

As I understand it from the API, this should create a new timing object
(in this 
case one which runs for 16 ticks at 100BPM with 1 tick per beat).
Then by calling the getBeatsMBT() method on this object, you should be
able to retrieve the number of beats that have passed (????).
But when I try this, i.e. by looping and printing timeMBT.getBeatsMBT()
to the screen, the return value of getBeatsMBT() seems to remain at 0
and never increment.
What am I doing wrong?? Do I need to start my new TimeMBT object
somehow?? Please, if anyone has figured this out, let me know,

Thanx in advance,

Kelvin.

N/A

Positioning is available in Java Sound in J2SE 1.3.  Looping can be done in the Midi file itself by specifying META events (markers) called "loopstart" and "loopend".  (This is a feature of the Beatnik engine underneath.)

I am recategorizing and keeping this bug open because the option to set loop points on a Sequencer (on the Sequence?) is a valid, and useful request.

Perhaps Sequencer.setLoopPoints( long loopBegin, long loopEnd ) where
loopBegin and loopEnd are in Ticks?

 xxxxx@xxxxx  2000-02-09

 xxxxx@xxxxx  2003-01-30
	Changed synopsis (was: "Request Sequencer looping and positioning at specific measures / beats").