[LAU] studioware equivalent for ardour or rosegarden on linux

hi all, i'm wondering if anyone can help me with some software i am looking for. i recall some years back, when i was using cakewalk/sonar in the late 90s/early 00s, a facility called studioware which allowed me to control a hardware synthesiser from within cakewalk. this was driven by files which one could load, which then represented each of the functions of a midi-connected hardware synthesiser/sampler/fx unit by an on-screen button, slider, dial, etc. a large number of the various hardware synthesisers available at the time had a studioware panel defined for them, and there was several repositories of these files, where users shared these files - they were fairly simple to create, some versions of cakewalk/sonar software included a design environment. is there a similar facility, maybe as a plugin, available for any linux DAW software, e.g. rosegarden/ardour? i have a couple of fairly complicated hardware synths i'd like to control, and the tiny screen and two physical knobs they provide are not conducive to in-depth editing. cheers, -- robin http://fu.ac.nz - Auckland's Free University