When I play a Mozart tune, I hear nothing. Whats wrong?
There are number of possibilities. Important background: Mozartuses MIDI synthesis for playback. This is quite different from audio playback of CDs and various kinds of sound file. MIDI comprises a set of instructions to a synthesiser which creates the sound. There is no “recording” as such. Computers can be properly configured for audio but not for MIDI. MIDI is not used by your computer in the normal run of events, and so it is quite possible that you wouldn’t know if this were the case. 0) A new possible cause in 2007, especially if playback has suddenly stopped working, is simply that the latest version of Windows Media Player sets the MIDI volume to zero when you use it for anything. (Our current view is that this new behaviour is a bug in the Media Player.) The solution is to reset the volume. See para (3) below. It may also be worth creating a shortcut to the volume control and keeping it on your desktop. The remainder of this topic addresses configuring your computer for MIDI.
