{"id":519,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=519"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"older-midi-apps-and-beos-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Older MIDI apps and BeOS 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve installed BeOS 5 Personal Edition and found that double-clicking MIDI files doesn&#8217;t work, it&#8217;s because your MIDI player may be looking for the old <code>big_synth.sy<\/code> synthesizer file. In BeOS 5, this file has been replaced by <code>Patches111.hsb<\/code>.<br \/>\nTo fix this, create a link named &#8222;big_synth.sy&#8220; to Patches111.hsb and all of those older midi programs will work. Open a Terminal and type:<\/p>\n<pre>ln -s \/boot\/beos\/etc\/synth\/Patches.hsb\n \/boot\/beos\/etc\/synth\/big_synth.sy<\/pre>\n<p>Of course, you can always copy bigsynth.sy over from an older R4.5 installation, but this method works fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve installed BeOS 5 Personal Edition and found that double-clicking MIDI files doesn&#8217;t work, it&#8217;s because your MIDI player may be looking for the old big_synth.sy synthesizer file. In BeOS 5, this file has been replaced by Patches111.hsb. To fix this, create a link named &#8222;big_synth.sy&#8220; to Patches111.hsb and all of those older midi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-audio-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}