I always solved this installing Timidity. It worked as a plugin in Audacious. Now I've got that working with Jack, combined with XSynth for emulating orchestral sounds.
-- 紳癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna) Lubuntu Artwork Team 2013/8/25 Lars Noodén <lars.noo...@gmail.com> > On 18.08.2013 23:01, Aere Greenway wrote: > > On 08/18/2013 06:28 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: > >> Should Audacious be able to play MIDI files out of the box or is a > >> little user-supplied configuration considered necessary? When I try to > >> load a MIDI file into Audacious, I get the following complaint when it > >> tries to actually play the file: > >> > >> You have not selected any sequencer ports for MIDI > >> playback. You can do so in the MIDI plugin preferences. > >> > >> Regards, > >> /Lars > >> > > Lars: > > > > I haven't used Audacious for playing MIDI, having run into the same > > thing, and not knowing what to configure, or how to configure it. > > > > However, VLC has a Fluidsynth plugin. Its package name is > > "vlc-plugin-fluidsynth". Here is the description from its package: > > > > FluidSynth plugin for VLC > > > > This plugin adds support for playing MIDI file via the FluidSynth > > software > > synthesizer to the VLC media player. > > > > Since I have that plug-in, I tried playing one of my MIDI files using > > VLC, and it worked perfectly, with no additional configuration needed. > > > > By the way, in my opinion, Fluidsynth (or its Qsynth GUI wrapper) is one > > of the very best software synthesizers around, and its default soundfont > > (FluidR3_GM) is also one of the best. > > > > So with VLC, using this plug-in, you don't need a sound-card having > > hardware synthesizers (such as Soundblaster Live!, or Audigy 2). It > > uses the Fluidsynth software synthesizer, which (when configured > > properly) will work even on a 450 megahertz machine. I know this > > capability, because I test it regularly. > > Thanks for that. The Fluidsynth plugin for VLC worked on the first try. > Audacious, or something it depends on, seems to be lacking in some way. > > Regards, > /Lars > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >
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