[PLUG] MIDI on Ubuntu 18.04

[Zack Olson]

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 <dick at dicksteffens.com> 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
>
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