This is to collect information regarding commonly faced MIDI issues, discuss possible approaches and track effort to resolve them. Centralizing them here might be able to provide more insights to the MIDI problem.

Common Issues

1. Missing soundfont
   1.1 fluidsynth might not be able to find the default soundfont even though it's installed (this is probably a packaging issue)
2. Soundset is installed but not selected
3. Confusing ALSA error message even though audio is working? (this is probably ALSA problem too)

Possible Approaches

1. Add warnings for soundfont not found error especially when music is enabled
2. Patch configuration (if not modified) to select the soundset when installing via package manager
3. Maintain a list of common problems and their fixes in documentation/manual