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Bitwig was founded by people who were previously working for Ableton. Some longer, some less long.

But they were not the original team that made Live, that is a bit misleading.

"Bitwig ... founded by Claes Johanson, Pablo Sara, Nicholas Allen and Volker Schumacher. Our experience in the computer music software industry includes Ableton, where we were all part of the development team behind the successful music software Live ... "

On Linux it steals/hogs the hardware MIDI, so you can't connect to it with other JACK MIDI apps.

I am also very bothered by this. I developed rtpmidid just to be able to use rtpmidi on bitwig.. and I need to use the virtual midi device hack.

I was just thinking if there is a way to ask for features.. and there is! https://bitwish.top/c/features/5

I will add the request for ALSA sequencer devices, which I think should include Jack ones.. but I will investigate this further, as maybe I'm wrong. There is a bridge for sure.

Anyway just don't hijack the MIDI device and be nicer with the linux MIDI ecosystem is a must.