On Saturday 23 April 2005 12:16, linux-audio-user-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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.