Re: Solution "Midi Through Port-0"?

[Federico Bruni]

Sorry, I hit reply before finishing...


On Wed, Jan 27 2021 at 11:33:58 PM +0100, Federico Bruni 
<fede@inventati.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27 2021 at 08:24:50 PM +0100, Silvain Dupertuis 
> <silvain-dupertuis@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> > I am on Ubuntu (18.04 on my main machine) and use Frescobaldi
> >  Midi output works fine for me.
> > I did not play with settings so far...
> > For midi ports, I have
> > Output reader = TiMidity port 0
> > Entry port = Midi Through Port-0
>
> You did not have to play with the settings probably because you 
> already had timidity installed and running as a service in background.
>
> More information on MIDI playback is in the wiki:
https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/wiki/MIDI-playback-on-Linux

> > The only thing : If I just press the  button
> >  (whatever it is called in English, in French, it says "graver")
> >  it does not save ouput. I have to save the Lilypond file also to 
> > get PDF and midi output.

This is a common misunderstanding.
There's an option in the Preferences to autosave the file when you 
click on Engrave button.

Perhaps the default should be the opposite of what it is now.
I think I made this suggestion on some Github issue.