[PLUG] MIDI on Ubuntu 18.04

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Sat Oct 13 22:36:31 UTC 2018


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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