[linux-audio-user] midi won't play although sound works

Brendon Oliver brendon.oliver at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 17:37:35 EST 2007


On Tuesday 20 February 2007 09:11, Carlyle Sutphen wrote:
> I am sure I am just missing something very elementary but I have turned up
> all controls in kmixer and gone through all how-tos and searched in google.
>
> What I really want is to be able to compose and play with something like
> MusicEdit. But I don't get anywhere close. Even the simple command:
>
> pmidi -p 16:0 derdurst.mid
>
> plays silently for several minutes. Tell me I am an idiot but tell me what
> I am overlooking.

> snd_emu10k1_synth 12544 0 - Live 0xf933a000

Did you load a soundfont into your Soundblaster card first? 

(e.g. asfxload /path/to/soundfont.sf)

cheers,

- b.

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