In this podcast you'll learn about a project that brings music composition down to the absolute 'dummy' music programmer. Basically, the project, JFugue Music NotePad, which is open sourced on java.net, provides a visual designer on top of the JFugue API, which is a simplified MIDI API. Come see how simple it can be to compose music and, if you like, join the project and extend the designer.

Geertjan Wielenga presents "Music Programming with Java (for dummies)" at the java.net Community Corner

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Chris Adamson is the former editor of java.net.