In order to play the tones you must connect it to a hardware or software synthesizer like Timidity or FluidSynth. ~~~~ timidity -A300 -iA -B4,4 ~~~~ Then start the midimory game and connect the game to the synthesizer: ~~~~ midimory --connect-to TiMidity ~~~~ or alternatively: ~~~~ midimory & aconnect Midimory TiMidity ~~~~