This is absolutely correct, but under lion, midi playback with qt7 is very, very messed up for some reason; it works like a dream under Snow Leopard, though.
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:44 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: playing midi files According to this thread QuickTime X can't play MIDI files but QT7 can and so folks are encouraged to get that and install it. Actually the poster said QTX prompted him to get QT7 when they tried to play some midi files. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3224133?start=0&tstart=0 CB On 9/18/11 9:31 PM, John Sanfilippo wrote: > Hi Missy, > > Actually, VLC is one of the first things I tried. Then QuickTime 7, Neither > of these is playing anything. I don't think it's the software; my hunch it is something else, but what? For instance, Garage Band plays its files, the very few that I have. > > Thanks for the response. > > js > > > > > On Sep 18, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > > Hi there! I'm sorry to hear you're having midi troubles, but on the > other hand, I'm very happy that there's finally someone other than me > experiencing this problem. So far as I know, this is a lion bug. Please contact Apple and complain about it. > Midi playback actually works the same way it used to, but > unfortunately, the quality is absolutely horrible now, so it would > almost be better if it didn't work at all. Until it gets fixed, your > best bet might be to download something like vlc media player and use > it in conjunction with a sound font. To me, it doesn't sound nearly as good > as midi playback under snow leopard did, which is 1 of the many reasons I haven't fully switched over to Lion yet, but it's a viable short-term solution until apple gets around to fixing whatever they broke. Good luck, and I hope this helps. > Missy > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
