public class Patch extends Object
Patch object represents a location, on a MIDI
 synthesizer, into which a single instrument is stored (loaded).
 Every Instrument object has its own Patch
 object that specifies the memory location
 into which that instrument should be loaded. The
 location is specified abstractly by a bank index and a program number (not by
 any scheme that directly refers to a specific address or offset in RAM).
 This is a hierarchical indexing scheme: MIDI provides for up to 16384 banks,
 each of which contains up to 128 program locations.  For example, a
 minimal sort of synthesizer might have only one bank of instruments, and
 only 32 instruments (programs) in that bank.
 
 To select what instrument should play the notes on a particular MIDI
 channel, two kinds of MIDI message are used that specify a patch location:
 a bank-select command, and a program-change channel command.  The Java Sound
 equivalent is the
 programChange(int, int)
 method of MidiChannel.
| Constructor and Description | 
|---|
| Patch(int bank,
     int program)Constructs a new patch object from the specified bank and program
 numbers. | 
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description | 
|---|---|
| int | getBank()Returns the number of the bank that contains the instrument
 whose location this  Patchspecifies. | 
| int | getProgram()Returns the index, within
 a bank, of the instrument whose location this  Patchspecifies. | 
public Patch(int bank,
             int program)
bank - the bank index (in the range from 0 to 16383)program - the program index (in the range from 0 to 127)public int getBank()
Patch specifies.MidiChannel.programChange(int, int)public int getProgram()
Patch specifies.MidiChannel.getProgram(), 
MidiChannel.programChange(int), 
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