Using Java for a step sequencer
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:00 am
Hi everybody!
Java is the language used in my IT cursus and this semester, I have to start a project from scratch using it. It does not need to be a big thing as the goal is to show that you can manage a project starting from user needs and finishing it to launch and support. My teacher said that we should enjoy it and go for anything we would like to use or think would be useful.
I'm planning to go for a monophonic step sequencer that would be a mix between the TB 303 sequencer functionalities but would look quite similar to Reason's matrix sequencer.
The target platform is Windows but I would like to be able to release it for Linux too as maybe some of you would be interested (at least I am, I miss such a little thing). I know that Java isn't the greatest language for real-time audio but I think that for sending midi messages it should be fine.
Do any of you have advices on the libraries I should use to get it right from the beginning?
Java is the language used in my IT cursus and this semester, I have to start a project from scratch using it. It does not need to be a big thing as the goal is to show that you can manage a project starting from user needs and finishing it to launch and support. My teacher said that we should enjoy it and go for anything we would like to use or think would be useful.
I'm planning to go for a monophonic step sequencer that would be a mix between the TB 303 sequencer functionalities but would look quite similar to Reason's matrix sequencer.
The target platform is Windows but I would like to be able to release it for Linux too as maybe some of you would be interested (at least I am, I miss such a little thing). I know that Java isn't the greatest language for real-time audio but I think that for sending midi messages it should be fine.
Do any of you have advices on the libraries I should use to get it right from the beginning?