BeatBox
Create Music on Go
A music beat box to play music by selecting the beats of corresponding instruments.
Video Demo: http://youtu.be/lTfO8-perP8
Audio Demo: https://soundcloud.com/abhisekp/beatbox-demo
Features
- Play & Stop music or Reset player to default
- Change Playback speed
- Many types of Drum Kit instruments
Concepts Used
- Package [com.abhisekp]
- Class [encapsulation of methods(behaviour) and fields(variables or state)]
- Class member access specifier [public, private]
- Swing GUI API [JFrame, JPanel, BoxLayout, GridLayout, JButton, JCheckbox]
- Event Listeners [addActionListener()]
- Inner class or Anonymous class [used to add event listeners]
- Sound API [Sequencer, Sequence, Track, MidiEvent]
Building
BeatBox.java - main class
Pre-requisites
- Java SE 7+ SDK (Reason: Using Override & Anonymous class)
- Java IDE (e.g. IntelliJ IDEA, Netbeans, Eclipse, etc) (optional)
Compiling from Source (manually)
All sources in com.abhisekp package
In Windows
cd src\ && mkdir ..\out\
javac -d ..\out\ com\abhisekp\BeatBox.java
In Linux
cd src/ && mkdir ../out/
javac -d ../out/ com/abhisekp/BeatBox.java
Running Manually Built
In Windows
cd ..\out\
java com.abhisekp.BeatBox
In Linux
cd ../out/
java com.abhisekp.BeatBox
Get Packaged jar
Download BeaBox App v0.1
Running Packaged jar
java -jar "BeatBox-v01.jar"
Import in Eclipse (Windows, OSX, Linux, Automatic)
How to import BeatBox sources in Eclipse see here
Future (TODOs)
- Save & Load Midi files from FileSystem (.wav or .midi)
- Send Midi using Network
- Chat server & client to transmit music between peers
- Upload Midi music to Online Sound Storage services (e.g. SoundCloud)