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bicyclingrevolution

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Registered: 2010-10-18

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[Solved] Guitar Pro 6 (Linux) - No midi output

I have successfully installed the .deb version of Guitar Pro 6 on my 64 bit system. I have pulseaudio working, and when I open Guitar Pro it plays the jingle, but it is completely silent when I play notation.
In what is probably a separate problem, Guitar Pro shows the sound banks when the Realistic Sound Engine is off, but they disappear when I enable it, and a message pops up before playing that says "Some tracks do not have associated soundbanks. Please download them via the Updater menu." At first Tuxguitar wouldn't play either, but I fixed that by installing Timidity++. Guitar Pro allows me to choose midi ports Midi Through:0 and Timidity:1 to 3, none of them work.
Guitar Pro doesn't show any errors at first when launching from a terminal, but then it always shows this kind of error when opening a file (even sample files)

element XProperties: Schemas validity error: Element 'XProperties': This element is not expected.
element XProperties: Schemas validity error : Element 'XProperties': This element is not expected.
element XProperties: Schemas validity error : Element 'XProperties': This element is not expected.
cannot validate XML...
5 ms
0 ms
[RENDERER] UpdateAll : 59ms
[RENDERER] UpdateAll : 4ms
[RENDERER] UpdateAll : 4ms

This doesn't seem to relate to the problem though.

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So after messing around with it a while, I managed to install the soundbanks by dragging the Soundbanks.gpbank file into Guitar Pro. This never worked before, so I don't know what changed. Sound banks are now properly displayed with Realistic Sound Engine, and they play wonderfully. I still don't get sound with RSE disabled, but RSE isn't slow at all so I'm happy. I declare it a success.

Last edited by bicyclingrevolution (2012-06-20 02:33:19)