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What Can Ardour Do With MIDI?

- MIDI - 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. + MIDI is a way to describe musical + performances and to control music hardware and software. +

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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 Handling Frameworks

MIDI input and output for Ardour are handled by the same "engine" - 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: + that handles audio input and output.

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OS X : CoreMIDI

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- CoreMIDI is the standard MIDI framework on OSX systems. - It provides drivers for MIDI hardware and libraries needed by MIDI - software clients. -

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Linux : ALSA MIDI

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OS X
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CoreMIDI is the standard MIDI framework on OSX systems. +
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Linux
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ALSA MIDI - is the standard MIDI framework on Linux systems. It provides drivers - for MIDI hardware and libraries needed by MIDI software clients. -

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+ There is no single standard MIDI framework on Windows, + but Ardour can work with ASIO and others. +
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- NoteThe QJackCtl control software displays ALSA MIDI + 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.