Since the older examples you write of were installed, Rosegarden has made some changes to the way channels are setup.
"Beginning with version 10.02, Rosegarden no longer provides controls for changing the channel associated with each MIDI instrument Instead each instrument uses the same channel as its instruemnt number." The first thing to get some sound going, is to go to the Studio->Manage MIDI devices menu and make sure you have output sent to fluidsynth. (Some of these examples were written to run through a soundblaster 128 rather than fluidsynth, so when they don't find the soundblaster they just give up and send midi output to [No Port]). Here's what I see when I open this window after opening Bogus Surf Jam: MIDI Outputs: [129:0] Synth Input Port [14:0] Midi Through Port [No Port] X I get no sound because I have [No Port] selected. Clicking on [129:0] Synth Input Port and closing the window will be enough to give me some sort of sound. However, Rosegarden doesn't do a perfect job of assigning sf2 patches to the channels in these cases. The most noticable problem for me, is that channel 9 which is supposed to be the drum kit comes up as choir vocals which won't be in the right key or anything.(C major rather than G minor). To fix this, select track 9 in that middle area listing all the different tracks and then edit the track parameters at the bottom left corner.. First check the check boxes for bank and program. From the drop down menu for banks select bank 1:0 to get the bank with all the drum kits in it. Then from the Program drop down menu select what ever drum set you want. For me this put everything to rights. But you might want to play around with the Program assignment for the other tracks as well. Except of course that for melodic instrument you'll want to be using bank 0:0 rather than bank 1:0. This change from Rosegarden 10.02 has been fairly unkind to the examples I've contributed since I invariable write the drums on two different tracks one of which always comes up as a random out of tune racket. I do this because all the cymbals and hi-hat positions can be written out without accidentals in the key of B Major, while kick snare and toms are all available without accidentals in the key of C. Also I find it easier to work out as two tracks. The three examples in question are Bogus Surf Jam, D'jer Fire and Stormy Riders. Perhaps I should fix these up and resubmit them. It is a bit of a pain to get them going. Hope this helps.
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