Fantastic! Finally a game that uses a synth.

Really cool Good job!

Fun game! For me it was more like "guess where the ball is heading next" until I'd played enough to have an idea of the tune. Are we supposed to know the tune beforehand?

Also, it's probably just be my crappy pulseaudio setup, but a couple of times I heard what sounded like over/underflow or clipping.

Now to try hard level 

Edit: Hehe. I'm an idiot. Just worked out what the rain is for. 

@pjt33 Thought I had it compiled for 1.5 but I'll double check tonight.

@Jono It's not pulseaudio it is the crappy default Sun Audio Mixer. You can change it by editing a properties file for the JVM. I can also get it to work by searching through all mixers on the system and picking the first one that is not the Sun Mixer that supports the AudioFormat I am using but it uses up quite a few bytes.

Yeah, I think I must have compiled for 1.6 (lost track in all the optimization steps). I'll recompile for 1.5 tonight.

Edit: Ok, should now be 1.4+ friendly for those of us still in the Cretaceous period.

Really cool. Unfortunately, I found it really hard to correspond my fingers with the music, unlike I have done with Flash Flash Revolution. Do you think you have enough bytes left to change them from small droplets to arrows? Having that extra visual association always really helped me. I'm much worse at Guitar Hero because I basically start to lose track of where my fingers are relatively. If the keys are up/down/left/right then you always know which one you'r pressing. If they're in a row, however, you can't be sure if you're pressing 2 or 3.

Does that make sense?

hmm, not sure the enabling/disabling of the channel(s) with the notes in is working properly for me.
Sometimes I get the blue pulse indicating I hit the note, but hear either nothing, or the tail end of the note.

I don't think that bouncing ball thing helps at all 

p.s.

The tune & timing doesn't seem completely right to me either, some notes appear to be missing & the pace seems a little too slow too.

p.p.s

Also, after 2 or 3 runs I start getting pops in the audio =/
Java Sound isn't realy selling itself to me 

How are you meant to play? Is it like DDR where you have to hit the key at a certain point or like Guitar Hero where the key has to be down at a certain point?

Very neat!

I'm not sure all the sounds play properly though... it feels as though it misses a note here and there, much like Abuse said. I had much the same problem when I tried to use a synthesizer though... I'm guessing it's the java synth that isn't all that great. :/