Re: Changing and playing a different instrument in MIDI

[Vaughan McAlley]

On 22 July 2016 at 16:51, Mojca Miklavec <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't have much experience with MIDI. I just tried all the media
> players on OS X and realized than only QuickTime Player 7 had some
> very very basic support for playing MIDI files (I cannot even make it
> play loud enough, let alone do anything else with it). None of the
> others I have installed worked (VLC, MPlayerX, QuickTime Player,
> RealPlayer, ...)
>
> So I went on and made a package for TiMidity++ and freepats.
>

I very highly recommend MidiPipe:
http://www.subtlesoft.square7.net/MidiPipe.html

For playing MIDI files, connect a DLS synth module to an SMF player
module. But it is very versatile, and I use it pretty much any time I
do anything with MIDI. For example it connects nicely with
Frescobaldi.

Vaughan