Thanks for the tip, I will do that. Have a great day, Alex New email address: mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: Andreas Stefik To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 11:27 Subject: Re: midi and java? Alex, Look up something called "JavaSound." This is how you send signals to the sound card, either through MIDI, or just raw signals in general. There's a bit of a learning curve, but it's a pretty decent design once you get the hang of it. Andreas Stefik, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Southern Illinois University Edwardsville On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi all, As I understand it, most every sound card has a set of midi sounds, 128 of them I think, hard-coded onto it which programs can play. Is this possible in Java? I do not want to play .mid files; rather, I want access to the midi sounds my sound card has. If I am misunderstanding something, let me know. Thanks! Have a great day, Alex New email address: mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind