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 <h2>What Can Ardour Do With MIDI?</h2>
 <p>
-  <dfn><abbr title="Musical Instrument Digital Interface">MIDI</abbr></dfn>
-  is a way to describe music data and to control music hardware and 
-  software. 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.
+  <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>
 
 <h2>MIDI Handling Frameworks</h2>
@@ -18,25 +20,24 @@ title: Setting Up MIDI
   that handles audio input and output. Up to release 3.5, that means
   that all MIDI I/O takes place via JACK. JACK itself uses the 
   native MIDI support of the operating system to receive and send
-  MIDI data. These are:
+  MIDI data. The native MIDI support  provides device drivers for MIDI
+  hardware and libraries needed by software applications that want to
+  work with MIDI.
 </p>
 
-<h3>OS X : CoreMIDI</h3>
-<p>
-  <dfn>CoreMIDI</dfn> is the standard MIDI framework on OSX systems. 
-  It provides drivers for MIDI hardware and libraries needed by MIDI
-  software clients. 
-</p>
-
-<h3>Linux : ALSA MIDI</h3>
-<p>
+<dl>
+<dt>OS X</dt>
+<dd>  <dfn>CoreMIDI</dfn> is the standard MIDI framework on OSX systems. 
+</dd>
+<dt>Linux</dt>
+<dd>
   <dfn><abbr title="Advanced Linux Sound API">ALSA</abbr> MIDI</dfn>
-  is the standard MIDI framework on Linux systems. It provides drivers 
-  for MIDI hardware and libraries needed by MIDI software clients.
-</p>
+  is the standard MIDI framework on Linux systems.
+</dd>
+</dl>
 
 <p class="note">
-  NoteThe <dfn>QJackCtl</dfn> control software displays ALSA MIDI
+  On Linux systems, <dfn>QJackCtl</dfn> control software displays ALSA MIDI
   ports under its "ALSA" tab (it does not currently display CoreMIDI
   ports).  By contrast, JACK MIDI ports show up under
   the <kbd class="menu">MIDI</kbd> tab in QJackCtl.