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Nov 7, 2025
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Windows MIDI Services and the 10-MIDI driver limit

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...

MIDIHardware
Nov 6, 2025
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Troubleshooting recent MIDI issues in Windows 11 (and Windows 10)

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 ...

MIDIDAWHardware
Feb 5, 2025
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Announcing: Windows MIDI Services Customer Preview 1!

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...

MIDIDAWArm64
Nov 8, 2024
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Which compilation target should I pick for my Arm64 music apps, ASIO components, and plugins?

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...

Arm64DAW
Oct 21, 2024
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Windows MIDI Services October 2024 Update

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...

MIDI
Oct 21, 2024
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Make Great Music with Windows on Arm

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 ...

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