I read:
Do i really have to use a virmidi soundcard to get those midi signals into pd? this would be a bit odd, since it involves yet another "man in the middle" ...
basically either that (relax it's a pretty fast middleman - way faster than you can ever move your faders ;) or use the alsa midi patch for pd (should be in cvs, it's also in pd-0.39-1test1, probably earlier)
HTH
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