Re: Problems setting up Midish to work with my Midi interface, keyboard and sound module

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 08:41:43PM +0100, John Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alexander and many thanks for your e-mail.  I'm using Midish
> version 1.0.4-1ubuntu1 which I installed from the Ubuntu repository.
> Typing dnew 0 "20:0" rw does, as you suggested allow me to play my
> keyboard and hear the notes I'm playing through my sound module.  I
> am, however, not able to play any files.  I extracted 'sample.sng'
> using Gunzip, but when I loaded it into Midish, I got the error "';'
> or new line expected" and when I hit 'p' to play the song, I did not
> get an error, but heard no sound either.  This also happened when I
> imported Midi files into Midish with the 'Import' command.  Any
> suggestions as to what to try next would be very useful.
> 

hey,

Good that you hear what you're playing on the keyboard, that means
that the device is properly setup. You can put the dnew line in your
~/.midishrc file to avoid typing the dnew command every time.

I guess, you forgot the the pair of quotes around the file name, ex:

	load "/path/to/sample.sng"
	import "/path/to/file.mid"

Quotes are necessary because file names may contain special
characters.

-- Alexandre