title: MIDI Learn
---
-<h3>Philosophy<h3>
+<h2>Philosophy</h2>
<p>
There are no "best" ways to map an arbitrary MIDI controller for
controlling Ardour. There may be very legitimate reasons for different
QJackctl, aconnect, Patchage, and more.
</p>
-<h3>Basics<h3>
+<h2>Basics</h2>
<ol>
<li> Enable Generic MIDI control: Options -> Control Surfaces -> Generic MIDI</li>
<li>The binding is complete. Moving the hardware should control the Ardour fader etc. </li>
</ol>
-<h3>Avoiding work in the future<h3>
+<h2>Avoiding work in the future</h2>
<p>
If you want the bindings you set up to be used automatically in every