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@ -5,19 +5,6 @@ There are no "best" ways to map an arbitrary MIDI controller for
controlling Ardour. There may be very legitimate reasons for different
users to prefer quite different mappings.
</p>
<p>
<kbd class="menu">Window &gt; MIDI Connections</kbd> 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.
</p>
<h2>Basics</h2>
@ -33,6 +20,26 @@ QJackCtl, aconnect, Patchage, and more.
<li>The binding is complete. Moving the hardware should control the Ardour fader etc. </li>
</ol>
<p>
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:
<ul>
<li>right click on the processor element in the mixer strip, and choose “Edit with Generic GUI”</li>
<li>right click on the processor element in the mixer strip, and from “Controls”, make the desired parameter visible inline in the mixer strip</li>
<li>in the editor, click on the “A” (automation) button for the
track, find the desired parameter. This will make the automation
lane for that parameter visible, and it comes with a fader you can
use for MIDI learn.</li>
</ul>
You can’t just “click the GUI” because the plugin owns the GUI, and
cannot (and should not) be a part of the MIDI learn process.
</p>
<h2>Cancelling a Learned MIDI Binding</h2>
<p>