In my search for a Linux MIDI editor I began looking over my Main Menu->Sound and Video->More Sound and Video and discovered an application called KMid. It has an interesting interface, but I can't get any sound. I have a MIDI file that I downloaded a long time ago that I'm using as a test file, and KMidi will play it just fine, but KMid still won't give me any sound. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
Michael:
I ran into the same thing with my new box that I installed FC2 on. On my old FC1 box, I have a SoundBlaster Live sound card, which it seems has MIDI support, but my current setup uses an integrated sound card that does not have MIDI support.
So when I created the score in lilypond, I also created a .midi file that I wanted to check out. Kmid wouldn't play it, but I found that timidity would play it!
Do a "which timidity" at a command prompt. See if you have it in /usr/bin. If you do, then try playing the midi file with this command:
timidity nameofthemidifile.midi
Hope this helps, Clint
