Re: help with playing a midi file

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Mark L. Kahnt wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:18, Paul Scott wrote:
>  
>
> > My sound card works.  I am using KDE on the 2.4.20-k6 kernel.  I have a 
> > number of midi players installed - kmid, rosegarden.  They all look like 
> > they are playing midi files but I get no sound.
> >
> > Any ideas for diagnosis?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Paul Scott
> >    
>
> And what, pray tell, is the make/model of your sound card? Simple audio,
> and the reproduction of sound shapes (what MIDI does) are two different
> functions of the same card, and the latter isn't always implemented at
> the time the first part is available.
>  
Understood.  It's an SB AWE-64.  The KMid web site says this card should 
be supported.  I have read the Sound and MIDI HOWTO's and other docs to 
try to understand this.

Thanks,

Paul