Hey Vic, A couple of things, the MPU-401 you mention is usually the Midi in/out interface on your sound card, not necessarily a soft synth? I could be wrong in this case as I've not used Rosegarden and I know that sometimes in Windows a soft synth shows up as an emulated MPU-401. I know that with earlier Creative cards, you had to actually load your "sound fonts" in order to play back .midi files Getting started with MIDI on Linux: http://tinyurl.com/2rqwjz More info on Sound Fonts in Linux: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/LA_SoundFonts Sorry I don't have better info for you. I tend to use a Mac for my music stuff because Logic is just so good that I can't ween myself off of it. Micah --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss