quicktime.app.audio
Interface MusicPart

All Superinterfaces:
AudioSpec, ExtendedAudioSpec
All Known Implementing Classes:
NoteChannelControl, MusicPartControl

public interface MusicPart
extends ExtendedAudioSpec

MusicParts extend the capability of audio control objects as they provide an instrument that will play or render the control information (ie. notes, etc) of that particular part. The analogy is an instrument in an orchestra that plays a particular part in a score.

The NoteChannel is responsible for producing the sound.

In its completeness a MusicPart has a sense of it volume, its balance location in a left-right stereo field and an instrument that is the sound it produces.

See Also:
NoteChannel

Method Summary
 java.lang.String getInstrumentName()
          Returns the name of the current instrument for this part.
 NoteChannel getNoteChannel()
          This method gets the NoteChannel being controlled by this object.
 void selectInstrument(java.lang.String prompt)
          This method allows for the class to allow some selection process whereby the user would choose a particular instrument that will be consequently used by a MusicPart to produce the sounds that it plays.
 
Methods inherited from interface quicktime.app.audio.ExtendedAudioSpec
getBalance, setBalance
 
Methods inherited from interface quicktime.app.audio.AudioSpec
getVolume, isMuted, setMuted, setVolume
 

Method Detail

getInstrumentName

public java.lang.String getInstrumentName()
                                   throws QTException
Returns the name of the current instrument for this part.
Returns:
name of the current instrument for this part

selectInstrument

public void selectInstrument(java.lang.String prompt)
                      throws QTException
This method allows for the class to allow some selection process whereby the user would choose a particular instrument that will be consequently used by a MusicPart to produce the sounds that it plays.
Parameters:
prompt - - any information that the program wants to display to the user to aid in the selection process.

getNoteChannel

public NoteChannel getNoteChannel()
                           throws QTException
This method gets the NoteChannel being controlled by this object.
Returns:
the NoteChannel