On Sunday 12 November 2006 11:19, magicus wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> Once done that, any KDE application will play MIDI files. Don't > >> know if XMMS will do it, but kmid will for sure. > > > > I've done everything I can remember doing in the past, but still I'm not > > hearing any sound from the .mid files. > > I am not in KDE at the moment and bringing up a MIDI file in Kmid (after > loading the soundfont file as described previously) under GNOME I was > able to play it after going into the Settings/Midi Setup and choosing: > > Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 0 - ALSA device > > as the playback device. > By accident, I seem to have come across a clue to what's happening. By trial and error I found that I could play one track, but no others. I thought of putting the one that plays and one other onto a url so that you could see if they played on yours. To my surprise, when I checked the urls in a browser I found that both played, so that sent me back to kmidi. It seems that it depends on a suitable soundfont being loaded. The one I loaded first only played piano tracks. I loaded a synth font, but the orchestral music sounded ghastly on that. Now I'll have to try to find a good general-purpose soundfont. Thanks to all for the help in tracking this down. Anne
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