I have an AMD 2.7Ghz with 1Ghz RAM, running WIN XP Home and a SBLive! soundcard.
I used to play midi files quite a lot but haven't done so for a few months. Now I find there is no sound, but only from the Midi. Every other format works fine. I have checked the mixer settings; midi is available and the slider set to max with the mute unchecked. Have tried different midi engines all with the same result. Everything goes through the motions but nothing from the speakers. I tried restoring everything to default. I also tried A creative Diagnostics reset. Nothing seems to cure it.
in control Pannel in the sound's Audio Device's You have a playback option (Click Audio) There Be 3 option's
Of Defalt device's
Output
Recording
MIDI PLAYBACK -Ensure this is the same as the Top (output)Default Device
Ive got one of these Card's Good Value For money
tecport
January 2008
ok with the sblive you have 3 sets of soundfont banks either 2gm 4gm or 8gm make sure one of these are loaded in your soundbank manager in the audio hq they load direct from the driver cd hope this helps i use midi all the time as i compose had this problem with the sb live before