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
-ALSA MIDI is the standard MIDI framework to comunicate with MIDI hardware on Linux systems. It provides drivers and libraries needed by MIDI clients. These ports show up under the "MIDI" tab in qjackctl
-JACK MIDI is a framework used to comunicate between JACK MIDI software clients. On OSX JACK MIDI provides 0 jitter and a fixed latency of 1 period MIDI routing. On Linux JACK MIDI provides zero latency, except when there is a midi loop where the latency would fixed at 1 perioud, and zero jitter MIDI routing. These ports show up under the "JACK MIDI" tab in qjackctl
- + ++ MIDI is a way to describe musical + performances 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. +
+ ++ MIDI input and output for Ardour are handled by the same "engine" + that handles audio input and output. +
+ ++ On Linux systems, QJackCtl 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 MIDI tab in QJackCtl. +
+ ++By default, JACK will not automatically detect and use existing MIDI +ports on your system. You must choose one of several ways +of bridging between the native MIDI frameworks +(e.g. CoreMIDI or ALSA) and JACK MIDI, as described in the sections +below. +
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