001/* Soundbank.java -- Container of Instruments to be loaded into a Synthesizer 002 Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package javax.sound.midi; 040 041/** 042 * A Soundbank is a container for instruments which may be loaded into 043 * a Synthesizer. 044 * 045 * @author Anthony Green (green@redhat.com) 046 * @since 1.3 047 * 048 */ 049public interface Soundbank 050{ 051 /** 052 * Get the sound bank name. 053 * 054 * @return the sound bank name 055 */ 056 String getName(); 057 058 /** 059 * Get the sound bank version. 060 * 061 * @return the sound bank version 062 */ 063 String getVersion(); 064 065 /** 066 * Get the sound bank vendor. 067 * 068 * @return the sound bank vendor 069 */ 070 String getVendor(); 071 072 073 /** 074 * Get the sound bank description. 075 * 076 * @return the sound bank description 077 */ 078 String getDescription(); 079 080 /** 081 * Get an array of non-Instrument resources in this sound bank. 082 * 083 * @return an array of non-instrument resources in this sound bank 084 */ 085 SoundbankResource[] getResources(); 086 087 /** 088 * Get an array of Instruments in this sound bank. 089 * 090 * @return an array of instruments in this sound bank 091 */ 092 Instrument[] getInstruments(); 093 094 /** 095 * Get the Instrument for the given Patch. 096 * 097 * @param patch the Patch to search for 098 * @return the Instrument corresponding to patch 099 */ 100 Instrument getInstrument(Patch patch); 101}