Re: MIDI novice; cannot get Reference examples to play

[Federico Bruni]

Il 06/11/2011 20:16, address@hidden ha scritto:
> I am _absolutely new to MIDI.  I am however
> able to get some random MIDI files I found on the
> web to play through my Alesis synthesizer with
> the command:
>
>      aplaymidi --port 16:0  file_i_found.mid
>
> (I am working under Linux, CentOS 5.6).
>
> However, I cannot get any Lilypond created midi
> files to play with the above syntax.  The command
> will execute, but_no_  sound is produced by my
> synthesizer.

did you install timidity?

try a timidity port, see the output of:

aplaymidi -l


The Midi Through port doesn't work for me.

Or just use timidity:

timidity file.mid


KMid is a nice GUI.
BTW, does anybody know a Gtk equivalent?