-<p> CoreMIDI is the standard MIDI framework to comunicate with MIDI
-hardware on OSX systems. It provides drivers and libraries needed by
-MIDI clients. These ports do not show up in qjackctl</p>
-
-<h4>ALSA MIDI</h4>
+<h2>What Can Ardour Do With MIDI?</h2>
+<p>
+ <dfn><abbr title="Musical Instrument Digital
+ Interface">MIDI</abbr></dfn> is a way to describe musical
+ performances and to control music hardware and software.
+</p>
+<p>Ardour can import and record MIDI data, and perform a variety of
+ editing operations on it. Furthermore, MIDI can be used to control
+ various functions of Ardour.
+</p>