Re: No MIDI sound - can anyone help? - problem solved!

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Posted by Andrew Sheard on October 31, 2002 at 16:40:44:

In Reply to: No MIDI sound - can anyone help? posted by Andrew Sheard on October 29, 2002 at 15:01:44:


After further investigation, it seems that the problem was a corrupt file: gm.dls in windows\system32\drivers, which contains the MIDI sounds for the synthesiser to use. I downloaded a fresh one from www.driverguide.com (useful site, this), and MIDI now plays, both from files and an external keyboard. Microsoft admit this to be an occasional problem with Win98, and it seems that XP uses the same file.

Many thanks to all who gave some thought to my problem, especially Jeremy D.

Andrew Sheard

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