Hi Julien, On Monday 19 February 2007 23:33, Julien Claassen wrote: > 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. They are in both input and output. Why do you say they are on the "read" jacks? > 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 Tried 17 before. Also no go. I would like to avoid the card's synth because I read that the software synth's are worlds better. > 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. Timidity plays midi for me! So I suppose what I am missing is a synthesizer. I guess it's back to the how-tos! Or can somebody recommend something that will "just work" when I start it in the background? > 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. I guess I'll try this.But fluidsynth is not installed. Maybe something else I could use is? Carlyle