Hi Carlyle! I don't know if this helps but... Did you connect an external midi-device to your computer? Because midi-port 16 and 20 seem to refer to your read hardware midi-jacks. You might try the following: Either take port 17 for playback, if tour audigy is thus supported, it should play from its internal mini-synth or soundfonts, I don't know. Or try TiMidity (there's a website at sourceforge.net. TiMidity is a software Synthesizer. It loads midi-files and plays them using sounds from you computer. Third thing you might try: Start up fluidsynth with some Gm-soundfont and then do an aconnect -ol to find fluidsynth's port and then give pmidi or aplaymidi this port. If it all doesn't work, I don't know... HTH. Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de