From 9ff353e60c8cb470d899fe9b23a32e44e4a613e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Davis
-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. So, you will not find a MIDI connection dialog in Ardour 2.X. +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.