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How do i play MIDI sequence files?

Do they play with nothing coming out of the speakers or do you get an immediate error?

You may have a bad midi mapping set to a synth that is not existent or set to hardware with no voice samples loaded.

We do this on the cafe computers so people visiting websites with embedded midi's (ugh x 10) don't play and disturb others.
 
Originally posted by: MartyMcFly3
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
winamp can handle MIDI sequences..
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So should windows media player..
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I did find it kinda odd that he said that it couldn't handle it... but I shrugged it off as Microsoft needlessly crippling something else...
 
Originally posted by: C6FT7
Do they play with nothing coming out of the speakers or do you get an immediate error?

You may have a bad midi mapping set to a synth that is not existent or set to hardware with no voice samples loaded.

We do this on the cafe computers so people visiting websites with embedded midi's (ugh x 10) don't play and disturb others.
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It opens up in any application, (WMP, Winamp, Realplayer, VLC) but there is no sound... I find it odd that the songs are only like 50KB each...im pretty sure they are not streaming though.
 
Originally posted by: mariok2006
Originally posted by: C6FT7
Do they play with nothing coming out of the speakers or do you get an immediate error?

You may have a bad midi mapping set to a synth that is not existent or set to hardware with no voice samples loaded.

We do this on the cafe computers so people visiting websites with embedded midi's (ugh x 10) don't play and disturb others.
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It opens up in any application, (WMP, Winamp, Realplayer, VLC) but there is no sound... I find it odd that the songs are only like 50KB each...im pretty sure they are not streaming though.
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I took a look at them and they play fine. I could convert each one to a mp3...but that would increase the size a lot. Go into control panel and to "Sounds and Audio devices" - >"audio" tab -> And make sure something is selected for midi playback. If something is, see if there are other device options available and try those. Also make sure all the volumes in your sound mixer are turned up including "SW synth" such. This is most likely the problem.
 
Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Originally posted by: mariok2006
Originally posted by: C6FT7
Do they play with nothing coming out of the speakers or do you get an immediate error?

You may have a bad midi mapping set to a synth that is not existent or set to hardware with no voice samples loaded.

We do this on the cafe computers so people visiting websites with embedded midi's (ugh x 10) don't play and disturb others.
Click to expand...

It opens up in any application, (WMP, Winamp, Realplayer, VLC) but there is no sound... I find it odd that the songs are only like 50KB each...im pretty sure they are not streaming though.
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I took a look at them and they play fine. I could convert each one to a mp3...but that would increase the size a lot. Go into control panel and to "Sounds and Audio devices" - >"audio" tab -> And make sure something is selected for midi playback. If something is, see if there are other device options available and try those. Also make sure all the volumes in your sound mixer are turned up including "SW synth" such. This is most likely the problem.
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Thanks a million! My SW synth was muted for some reason.
 
MIDI is not data it's an instruction set to tell your hardware what instrument to play from a table of sample wave files. This is why they are so small. It's like getting the instructions to build something rather than the finished package.

The quality of your playback hardware and its sample set determines what the output music will sound like. There is no direct cut conversion from GM to MP3, for example.
 
Originally posted by: mariok2006
Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Originally posted by: mariok2006
Originally posted by: C6FT7
Do they play with nothing coming out of the speakers or do you get an immediate error?

You may have a bad midi mapping set to a synth that is not existent or set to hardware with no voice samples loaded.

We do this on the cafe computers so people visiting websites with embedded midi's (ugh x 10) don't play and disturb others.
Click to expand...

It opens up in any application, (WMP, Winamp, Realplayer, VLC) but there is no sound... I find it odd that the songs are only like 50KB each...im pretty sure they are not streaming though.
Click to expand...



I took a look at them and they play fine. I could convert each one to a mp3...but that would increase the size a lot. Go into control panel and to "Sounds and Audio devices" - >"audio" tab -> And make sure something is selected for midi playback. If something is, see if there are other device options available and try those. Also make sure all the volumes in your sound mixer are turned up including "SW synth" such. This is most likely the problem.
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Thanks a million! My SW synth was muted for some reason.
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No problem glad it works now! 🙂
 
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