Correct Way to Enable Midi with SB PCI512

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:25:53AM EST, Vic Ayres wrote:
> I'm new to Ubuntu and haven't much experience of Debian. I have a
> SoundBlaster PCI512 soundcard and I need to enable Midi for jedabc to
> work as I am used to.
> 
> I've searched and Googled, read various HOWTO's, but I can't find the
> answer. At present, to be able to play Midi files I have to :-
> sudo /usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices then
> sfxload /usr/share/sounds/sf2/<mybank>.sf2
> 
> I'm sure there must be a really simple way to do this automagically. But

Have you ensured that you have the sequencer and MIDI modules loaded? It 
seems tha tUbuntu doesn't load these by default. The one module I am 
thinking of is snd-seq-midi

Luke