javax.microedition.amms
Interface EffectModule

All Superinterfaces:

javax.microedition.media.Controllable, Module

public interface EffectModule

extends Module

EffectModule is a logical group of Players and/or MIDI channels to which a common sequence of effects can be applied. This may allow the implementation to make optimizations in the audio processing. For example, an implementation might mix all of the inputs together before applying the effects. The term effect is used here to cover both effects extending EffectControl and effect-like Controls extending Control like VolumeControl of MMAPI.

The GlobalManager is used to retrieve EffectModules.

Effects in Modules and Players

Typically, the set of effects provided by an EffectModule is a set of effects which all the Players connected to the EffectModule can support. However, this is not always the case and the exact set of Controls provided by the EffectModule is implementation specific. For instance, the types of the connected Players and the available media resources can affect the set of Controls provided by the EffectModule.

An EffectModule, that has no Players attached to it, does not provide any Controls. At least one Player can always be added to an EffectModule, but adding a MIDI channel or a second Player is not guaranteed to work. For instance, if the second Player is of a type that would make some Control already retrieved from the EffectModule become obsolete, then adding the second Player is not allowed and a MediaException is thrown.

In all essential parts in the guidelines above, the Player can instead be a MIDI channel, when the device supports access to individual MIDI channels.

See Also:

SoundSource3D

Methods inherited from interface javax.microedition.amms.Module

addMIDIChannel, addPlayer, removeMIDIChannel, removePlayer

Methods inherited from interface javax.microedition.media.Controllable

getControl, getControls