-This is the most complex part of the job, but its still not very hard. You need to connect the control surface to an application that will show you the information that the device sends each time you modify a knob, slider, button etc. There are a variety of such applications (notably <code>gmidimon</code> and <code>kmidimon</code>, but you can actually use Ardour for this if you want. Start Ardour in a terminal window, connect MIDI ports up, and in the Preferences window, enable "Trace Input" on the relevant MIDI port. A full trace of the MIDI data received will show up in the terminal window. (Note: in Ardour3, you get a dedicated, custom dialog for this kind of tracing)
+ This is the most complex part of the job, but its still not very hard.
+ You need to connect the control surface to an application that will show
+ you the information that the device sends each time you modify a knob,
+ slider, button etc. There are a variety of such applications (notably
+ <code>gmidimon</code> and <code>kmidimon</code>, but you can actually use
+ Ardour for this if you want. Start Ardour in a terminal window, connect
+ MIDI ports up, and in the Preferences window, enable "Trace Input" on the
+ relevant MIDI port. A full trace of the MIDI data received will show up in
+ the terminal window. (Note: in Ardour3, you get a dedicated, custom dialog
+ for this kind of tracing.)