What soft synth are you using? You won't hear anything from a midi file, it doesn't create audio. It just tells a synth what to play like the scroll on a player piano. Does that help or did I misunderstand you and just explain something you already knew?
I would load a soft synth into an instrument track in Ardour and place the midi file in that track. On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 3:36 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
