[ardour-users] Control surfaces

Jesse Chappell jesse at essej.net
Mon Jun 7 11:03:56 PDT 2004


Them wrote on Mon, 07-Jun-2004:

 > Jesse Chappell wrote:
 > 
 > > Ardour now supports midi via the alsaseq interface (as well as
 > > rawmidi).  Just go to the Options Editor, MIDI tab, and select
 > > external midi control checkbox. 
 > > 
 > > MMC should just work, while you need to manually bind midi events
 > > to faders, with Ctrl-middle-click on the fader, then wiggle the
 > > midi controller to bind to it.
 > 
 > It seems a lot of the less expensive controllers (like ALL of the 
 > M-Audio ones) are USB only, and will only work under Winders or Mac 
 > since software is used for the USB->MIDI interface.
 
Actually, almost all of the USB->midi hardware is supported in
linux right now.  A few of the other dedicated USB controllers
(such as the contour shuttlepro) can be supported via a user-level
driver that maps to alsaseq MMC, etc.

What hardware do you have in mind?

jlc



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