From 42787ab7b9e6648ed08e8e8e803fc9a218c2db60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Davis Philosophy
controlling Ardour. There may be very legitimate reasons for different
users to prefer quite different mappings.
-Window > MIDI Connections opens the -MIDI Connection Manager to help routing MIDI in and out. -Along with that, on every platform that Ardour runs on, there are excellent -free-of-charge tools for making connections between MIDI hardware and -"virtual" MIDI ports like the ones that Ardour creates and -uses. Rather than waste precious developer time replicating these -connection/patch managers, we prefer to leverage their existence by -having users rely on them to actually connect Ardour to other MIDI -devices and software. On OS X, we recommend Pete Yandell's MIDI -Patchbay. On Linux, a wide variety of tools are available including -QJackCtl, aconnect, Patchage, and more. -
+There's a complication to this story, however. You cannot use MIDI +learn with the GUI provided by the plugin. This is true no matter what +the plugin format or platform is. When we refer to "whatever on-screen +fader ..." above, we are referring to an “Ardour-owned” control of +some sort. You can get access to that in one of 3 ways: + +