can't hook up midi keyboard

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Hi all, I have an issue that's got me pretty stumped.

I've been trying to set up a midi keyboard to use with lmms, version 1.2.2 on pop!_os 21.04 (linux). When I first booted it up, I could select one of the tracks in the song editor, and it would list a couple of midi inputs and I could select my keyboard.

Then I wanted to see if I could find a soundfont to get a more piano-like sound, among others. I downloaded GeneralUser GS, and copied "GeneralUser GS v1.471.sf2" into 'Documents/lmms/samples/soundfonts'.

Now though, when I click on that midi input button, it does not give me a list of midi inputs, rather two checkboxes labeled input and output. Clicking on them just toggles the checked state.

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Can anyone tell me how to link up the Sf2 player with my midi keyboard?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT re-installed with apt-get, verified that MIDI settings were set to ALSA-Sequencer and 'default', restarted, and now it works. Not sure if that's what fixed it, but something did.
kalyxa wrote:
Fri Jul 16, 2021 7:36 pm
EDIT re-installed with apt-get, verified that MIDI settings were set to ALSA-Sequencer and 'default', restarted, and now it works. Not sure if that's what fixed it, but something did.
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