MIDI play-back misses the first note and/or always sounds like a piano?
This problem does not occur in versions Mozart 7 or later. If you are using Mozart 6, then installing the latest Mozart 6 service pack will fix it. It may be a problem in Mozart 5 specifically. When Windows XP came out, there were some subtle differences (from earlier versions of Windows) in the way that some sound card drivers interpreted MIDI instructions. This is the underlying cause of this problem. Mozart 5 predated Windows XP and could not anticipate it. (Earlier versions of Mozart didn’t have the cursor which follows play-back and, because of that, don’t encounter this problem.) All subsequent versions of Mozart have been redesigned to overcome this problem. The problem can sometimes be avoided, partially at least, by inserting a bar’s rest at the start of the piece (thus separating the first note from the initialisation events), or of course by taking advantage of the upgrade offer! [Mozart is programmed very “conservatively” and because of this there have been very few instanc
