Soundbank A Soundbank contains a set of Instruments that can be loaded into a Synthesizer . Note that a Java Sound Soundbank is different from a MIDI bank. Thus, a Soundbank can be thought of as a collection of MIDI banks. Soundbank includes methods that return String objects containing the sound bank's name, manufacturer, version number, and description. The precise content and format of these strings is left to the implementor.
Different synthesizers use a variety of synthesis techniques.
A common one is wavetable synthesis, in which a segment of recorded sound is played back, often with looping and pitch change. Obtains a textual description of the sound bank, suitable for display. Obtains a list of instruments contained in this sound bank. Extracts a list of non-Instrument resources contained in the sound bank. Obtains the version string for the sound bank.