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

[David Baron]

On Saturday 23 April 2005 12:16, linux-audio-user-request at music.columbia.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?
>
> Cause damn.  I didn't write this stuff!

This is a common problem. Midi exported from a program either lacks and 
"program" (patches) commands or the importing program ignores them. In 
Rosegarten, go to each track and reselect the instrument, bank, etc. Then it 
should play.