On 08/18/2011 03:57 PM, rosea grammostola wrote: of course you can use qmidictl to control qtractor, ardour or whatever midi controlled program you might think of. by default most controls are plain mmc which qtractor and ardour does respond if configured properly. all qmidictl widgets (buttons, sliders or knobs) are configurable to transmit/recognize any other midi channel event type, besides mmc (cf. Configure...) if not obvious already, you'll need a gateway device on the same machine you run the daw. yours trully qmidinet is a good choice ; it does alsa-midi and/or jack-midi, so that you can connect the provided in/out ports to and from the designated control ports of qtractor, ardour, w/e. cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org