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There are no "best" ways to map an arbitrary MIDI controller for controlling Ardour. There may be very legitimate reasons for different -users to prefer quite different mappings. So, Ardour does not come -with any pre-defined mapping - we believe that users know what is best -for them. +users to prefer quite different mappings.
-On every platform that Ardour runs on, there are excellent free-of-charge tools for making connections between MIDI hardware and "virtual" MIDI ports like the ones that Ardour creates and uses. Rather than waste precious developer time replicating these connection/patch managers, we prefer to leverage their existence by having users rely on them to actually connect Ardour to other MIDI devices and software. On OS X, we recommend Pete Yandell's MIDI Patchbay. On Linux, a wide variety of tools are available including QJackctl, aconnect, Patchage, and more. So, you will not find a MIDI connection dialog in Ardour 2.X. +On every platform that Ardour runs on, there are excellent +free-of-charge tools for making connections between MIDI hardware and +"virtual" MIDI ports like the ones that Ardour creates and +uses. Rather than waste precious developer time replicating these +connection/patch managers, we prefer to leverage their existence by +having users rely on them to actually connect Ardour to other MIDI +devices and software. On OS X, we recommend Pete Yandell's MIDI +Patchbay. On Linux, a wide variety of tools are available including +QJackctl, aconnect, Patchage, and more.
-If you want the bindings you set up to be used automatically in every -session, the simplest thing to do is to use Session -> Save -Template. Then, when creating new sessions, select that template and +session, the simplest thing to do is to use Session > Save +Template. Then, when creating new sessions, select that template and all the bindings will be automatically set up for you. You can also save a specific track/bus configuration as a template, and use that when adding new tracks or busses. Click on the track name at the top -of a mixer strip and select "Save as Template". +of a mixer strip and select Save as Template.