The USB MIDI 1.0 specification was released in the late 90s around the same time that PCs were starting to move from rectangular beige boxes to things like fake-silvered bulbous plastic shapes. At this point, some of the code in Windows to support USB MIDI 1.0 has become intergenerational – it's certainly older than my teenagers here at home. There...

If you are on Windows 11 (or Windows 10 for the UAD issue) and recently had either of these two issues, please read on: Universal Audio Console problem Recently, Universal Audio released a version of their Console app which broke MIDI on Windows. If you use a UAD audio interface and found your MIDI devices unavailable in your DAW, or saw an ...

Today, we're releasing the latest version of Windows MIDI Services to the Windows Insider Canary Channel, fully enabled for anyone to evaluate. We recommend this for technical users (as with any Canary release) and not for production use because we will have bugs. You can learn more about the Insider release here. The Windows Insider blog post det...

The Windows music creation community today is centered around Intel/AMD x64 (x86-64) because that is what most Windows PCs run for some time now. The introduction of Arm64 Copilot+ PCs has provided new opportunities with efficient and powerful devices with great battery life and NPUs. But because we continue to support both the AMD/Intel x86-64 (x6...

It's been a little while since I last posted an update about Windows MIDI Services outside of our Discord Server, but we've been busy! With all the announcements today at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit, I thought I'd dive in a bit on where we are with our new MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 stack on Windows. For more information on what we announced for mu...

This week has been amazing, with our musician work really coming together at Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2024! There's only so much time available in a keynote, so I thought I'd expand a bit more on the music-related announcements, especially for the new in-box features. Music is all around us. We purposefully listen to music in our cars and homes ...

The updated MIDI 2.0 specifications have been released, so we're opening the repo to the public.

The Importance of iSerialNumber in your USB MIDI Devices, especially in the new Windows MIDI Services

Spring 2023 Update on the new Windows MIDI Services and MIDI 2.0.

The ways to control updates and upgrades on Windows 11 (and Windows 10)