I assume you want to record what’s played on the AKAI keyboard into the MIDI-1 track in Ardour. So connect the MIDI 1 port of the AKAI with the MIDI-1 track in Ardour. No other connection needed. Then record-enable the MIDI-1 track in Ardour and record.
acidblue: i do not understand where your confusion is coming from. There are two ports corresponding to your MPK, one for capture (incoming) and one for playback (outgoing). There is are two ports for your MIDI track, one for input and one for output. What is it about this setup that is confusing to you? I am genuinely interested because if you’re confused, somebody else probably is too …
I'm not a2jmidid is, I disconnect those and connect the others, just didn't do it when I made the screen shot, my bad.
acidblue: i do not understand where your confusion is coming from. There are two ports corresponding to your MPK, one for capture (incoming) and one for playback (outgoing). There is are two ports for your MIDI track, one for input and one for output. What is it about this setup that is confusing to you
Whats confusing is I’m not getting Ardour to respond to my akai mini, even thought everything seems to be connected.
acidblue: yep, that is what you should expect. but you’re not getting that, for some reason that could be really incredibly simple or very complicated. I don’t like trying to debug/support such things via forums. Visit us on IRC for realtime assistance. See the support page for details. Or maybe other folks here will continue to try to provide you with some clues.