On Tuesday 20 February 2007 09:11, Carlyle Sutphen wrote: > I am sure I am just missing something very elementary but I have turned up > all controls in kmixer and gone through all how-tos and searched in google. > > What I really want is to be able to compose and play with something like > MusicEdit. But I don't get anywhere close. Even the simple command: > > pmidi -p 16:0 derdurst.mid > > plays silently for several minutes. Tell me I am an idiot but tell me what > I am overlooking. > snd_emu10k1_synth 12544 0 - Live 0xf933a000 Did you load a soundfont into your Soundblaster card first? (e.g. asfxload /path/to/soundfont.sf) cheers, - b. -- "It takes all sorts of in & out-door schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling" - R. Frost 09:35:57 up 61 days, 19:02, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.17, 0.16