I'm using a music notation editing program called Frescobaldi to write
Lilypond files which "compile" to .pdf and .midi files. The .pdf part
works. The .midi part looks like it works, but I can't hear anything.
I've tied adding various MIDI stuff, following instructions on various
websites, but still no go. Here's the error message I get with VLC media
player:
Codec not supported:
VLC could not decode the format "MIDI" (MIDI Audio)
I added FluidSynth plugin for VLC, but that had no effect. I still get
the same error message.
I tried timidity:
$ timidity 1.midi Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192 ALSA
pcm 'default' set buffer size 32768, period size 8192 bytes Playing
1.midi MIDI file: 1.midi Format: 1 Tracks: 3 Divisions: 384 Sequence:
control track Text: creator: Text: GNU LilyPond 2.18.2 Track name:
:soprano Instrument: choir aahs Track name: :tenor Instrument: choir
aahs No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 52 - this instrument
will not be heard No pre-resampling cache hit Last 3 MIDI events are
ignored Playing time: ~31 seconds Notes cut: 0 Notes lost totally: 0
This leads me to believe that there's more to configure somewhere in
order to get the "Instrument: choir aahs" but I don't know where to do
that.
Are there any musicians with Ubuntu 18 MIDI experience who can point me
to the right documentation?
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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