[wplug] Speaking of MIDI...SOLVED

[Robert E. Coutch]

Looks like you DO have to have a sound font installed.

I know I used find to search my Windows "crap" a gazillion times but this time 
I found 2 .SF2 files in the system32 directory.

I used sfxload to load in the 4MB samples and POOF - I got MIDI to play via 
the onboard synth.

I hope this helps somebody in the future.

-Bob

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 10:59 pm, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> I have another MIDI situation.
>
> I use an Audigy 2 ZS in my Linux desktop PC (I didn't really need to say
> Linux there, did I?).
>
> The card works great and has for quite some time.
> I usually use the external port for playing back MIDI sequences with no
> problems.
>
> Recently I relocated my PC to a new room where keyboards are no longer
> available.
>
> I need to use the internal MIDI synth on the card.
> I get no sound.
> Everything I find on the net says to load soundfonts and that they came
> with my SoundBlaster software.
> Wrong !  I have 2 or 3 soundfonts with the included software.
> I loaded one of them and it played.  The problem is, I need an entire bank
> of GM soundfonts to work this way. Not just one sound.
>
> What really confuses me is that this card has a PCM synth on it.
> In the past (previous version of SuSE), this worked fine and it works with
> Windows (without soundfonts).
>
> I don't need the fancy oversampled soundfonts, I just want the darn card to
> play sequences on the built-in synth.
>
> Does anyone know what I'm talking about and can give a little guidance?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
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