Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI exported from Cakewalk sounds         horrible!

From: David Baron <d_baron@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Apr 24 2005 - 22:25:21 EEST

On Saturday 23 April 2005 12:16, linux-audio-user-request@email-addr-hidden
wrote:
> I used to use Cakewalk on a small Windows partition for composing
> work.  Now, I'm trying to take the midi files I'd exported from
> Cakewalk and play them using rosegarden/fluidsynth/pmidi.
>
> My songs sounds like a cacophony.  Things are so wrong - it sounds
> truely horrible.
>
> I downloaded some MIDI files from around the internet and they all
> play normally.  Is is possible Cakewalk has some SysEx events in there
> that pmidi/rosegarden are interpreting as notes?
>
> Cause damn.  I didn't write this stuff!

This is a common problem. Midi exported from a program either lacks and
"program" (patches) commands or the importing program ignores them. In
Rosegarten, go to each track and reselect the instrument, bank, etc. Then it
should play.
Received on Mon Apr 25 00:15:11 2005

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