<Sound Dev> MIDI to audio files

[Alan Snyder]

It is probably not a performance issue, but what is the point of concealing that obvious functionality?

  Alan


> On Jan 7, 2019, at 12:55 PM, Sergey Bylokhov <Sergey.Bylokhov at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 07/01/2019 12:29, Alan Snyder wrote:
>> Your suggestion works and requires less code, but it is not the best fit for my use case.
> 
> Yes, in this case you will need to write data to something like ByteArrayOutputStream, and read it back by AudioSystem.
> The code will be small comparing to AudioSynthesizer, is the coping of data is a really a big problem and does it play a role in slowness the program?
> 
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>> In my case, I have already constructed a Sequence. To use your suggestion, I must convert the sequence to MIDI data so that I can provide it as an InputStream to AudioSystem, where the first thing that happens is that the data is parsed back into a Sequence.
>> I see no public way to get a Sequence directly to SoftMidiAudioFileReader.
>>   Alan
>>> On Jan 7, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Sergey Bylokhov <Sergey.Bylokhov at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, Alan.
>>> 
>>> I guess it should work using AudioSystem, which for midi files
>>> should work on top of com.sun.media.sound.SoftMidiAudioFileReader
>>> 
>>> On 06/01/2019 18:19, Alan Snyder wrote:
>>>> As far as I can tell, the ability to synthesize audio into files from MIDI was lost during the great Java modularization due to the failure to export the AudioSynthesizer interface.
>>>> Is there some reason this has not been fixed?
>>>> See JDK-8170518 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170518>, which I filed in 2016.
>>>>   Alan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Best regards, Sergey.
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> Best regards, Sergey.
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