Cant play midi files with full General Midi
I am using MuseScore 0.9.5 in Linux under the PCLinuxOS distro (Mandriva derivative) I have three different soundfonts (*.sf2 files) on this machine. I can >Preferences>IO>and select any of them, and I still have only the piano sounds on all instruments. Yes I have restarted MuseScore, I have even rebooted, and disabled timidity which was set to start on boot. At one time I had rosegarden using these soundfonts, then something broke. Rosegarden seems to work now, just won't play sounds.
Have I missed something obvious?
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Do you hear different instrument sounds if you create a new score (such as horn, flute, etc.)?
If you open the Change and adjust sounds , do you see different instruments listed under Sound for each staff or do they all say piano?
In reply to Do you hear different by David Bolton
When I open the mixer, it see the names of the instruments supposed to be playing, but it's all piano. Changing one to another instrument does nothing -- it's still piano. I haven't tried creating a new file yet. I'll try that tomorrow. But I have a boatload of midi files already, they play just fine under timidity, and rosegarden(before it broke) .
In reply to Do you hear different by David Bolton
Could you include screenshots of your mixer, preference>I/O tab, and attach a sample MIDI file you are working from?
In reply to Could you include screenshots by David Bolton
Attached are screenshots and midifile used.
Just tried this again, after the machine was shut down for a couple of days. I'm now hearing different instruments, albeit somewhat out of tune with the Unison sound font. I think I had this problem once before under windows a long time ago.
Stand by while I look further into this. It may have been a combination of things--improper setup, bad soundfont, bad midi file, or maybe just my head in a dark place.
In reply to Just tried this again, after by wayne1932
The cello in the Unison SoundFont sounds out of tune in version 0.9.5. This is a known problem that is fixed for the upcoming 0.9.6. In the mean time try another SoundFont such as MagicSF_ver2.sf2 or FluidR3_GM.sf2.