Re: midi ok in windows but only drums in linux

[vector457]

ahh thanks David.. seems it works fine under timidity but not under 
movie player.. strange as I just went thru  a stack of mid files on my 
pc(source unknown) and sure enough some dont work in movie player but 
are fine under timidity..go figure

On 12/06/2012 08:02 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> vector457 <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I have the same script extracted from the manuals which was written
> > and working on a windows box.
> > I got it home and put it on the ubuntu machine and only the drums
> > sound. I have lost the "flute" notes? (when played with movie player)
> > Have I not assigned the midi properly? or is it something weird on
> > this ubuntu machine.
> >
> >
> > \version "2.12.3"
> > \score {
> >    \new Staff <<
> >      \new Voice \relative c''' {
> >        \set midiInstrument = #"flute"
> The Midi support changed shortly before 2.14, so this could be due to
> different versions.
>
> Or it could be due to the limited number of instruments supported by
> free samples on Ubuntu.
>
> If you try
>
> timidity whatever.midi
>
> you should likely get a warning on the terminal if the file contains
> unsupported instruments.