On Sat, 25 May 2019, Seth Kenlon wrote:
For a MIDI file to produce sound out of Rosegarden (and probably most DAWs) you do have to assign the MIDI file an instrument.
If the MIDI file is composed for General MIDI, you have to assign General MIDI to the track containing the MIDI file you are trying to play. I haven't used Timidity++ directly in a long while, but if I remember correctly, General MIDI is the default for it (although you can swap out instrument sets in timidiity.cfg). So in other words, while it *is* the default behaviour of Timidity to use General MIDI mappings in order to produce sound from a MIDI file, that is *not* the default for Rosegarden (et. al) because a DAW sort of expects you to assign your own instruments.
If you are assigning an instrument (in Track Parameters) to the track in Rosegarden, then I'd look at your sound output settings. I imagine Rosegarden is sending sound output to something other than the speakers or headphones you expect to hear output from. The way I check for that is from the outside in: check all my physical cable connections, then my sound settings in pavuctl (Sound Settings in Gnome), then check JACK sound mappings, and then finally check Rosegarden sound mapping.
Thank you for this.
I now can plug in a USB MIDI hardward controller (Akai LPK25) and open Rosengarden, and get sound output. I also can load a MIDI file (found on some MIDI archive) into Rosengarden, and it plays.
Not all Fedora-installed MIDI-related is functioning for me.
But combined that's a start and gets me to the next set of obstacles.
The critical set of instructions and web source that got me through this is Ted's Linux MIDI Guide http://tedfelix.com/linux/linux-midi.html
There's some explanation; critically Pulseaudio impedes MIDI functionality and needs to be shutdown at the user level. The webpage provides a bash init.d-style StartStopStatus script. It needs a bit of modification for things such as the location the recommended soundfont.
The webpage also provides examples of commands to use for diagnostic purposes.
fyi,
MP
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 9:43 AM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 5/24/19 6:32 AM, Max Pyziur wrote:
I then began working through your Rosengarden item. I connected my USB MIDI controller ((Akai LPK25).
Started jackd, then qjacktl, and then Rosengarden.
I loaded a MIDI file, pushed "play," and I get no sound. That's where I get stuck.
As I mentioned, I can work w MuseScore, Transcribe!, Audacity, strip audio from videos using ffmpeg, etc.
So, it seems that there are some services that need to be enabled/started or disabled/stopped to move further here.
Try installing qsynth (gui for fluidsynth). Connect it to the midi port.
I helped my son setup rosegarden to play around with some composing, so I know it works. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
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