[LAU] Reverse-engineering MIDI software

Hi. I don't know if this is really the best place for this type of question, but I don't know where else to ask, so here is my question: I recently acquired an Arturia MiniLab MkII MIDI controller, and would like to use it with Linux applications (e.g. Ardour). The basic functions - i.e. playing notes with the keyboard and performance pads - work out of the box, but there are also some advanced functions that might be useful, which need to be enabled or configured through software. Arturia provides a "MIDI Control Center" for this controller, but of course it only runs on Windows and MacOS. I would like to be able to replicate the functionality of this software in Linux. It seems to me that it should be possible to run the MIDI Control Center in a Windows VM (I use VirtualBox for this), and use some sort of listener in Linux to display the MIDI messages that the Control Center is sending to the device. But I am not aware of any specific tools I could use for this purpose. Any recommendations?