[linux-audio-user] MIDI exported from Cakewalk sounds horrible!

[Brett McCoy]

ross at jose.lug.udel.edu wrote:

> I used to use Cakewalk on a small Windows partition for composing
> work.  Now, I'm trying to take the midi files I'd exported from
> Cakewalk and play them using rosegarden/fluidsynth/pmidi.
> 
> My songs sounds like a cacophony.  Things are so wrong - it sounds
> truely horrible.
> 
> I downloaded some MIDI files from around the internet and they all
> play normally.  Is is possible Cakewalk has some SysEx events in there
> that pmidi/rosegarden are interpreting as notes?

I had similar problems with Cakewalk generated MIDI.  In fact, Cakewalk 
incorrectly played back MIDI files from the Internet that played 
correctly with timidity or Rosegarden.  I HATED Cakewalk's MIDI and 
music notation support.  I was only too happy to abandon it and wipe out 
my Windows partition. :-)

-- Brett