Pete Brown

Principal Software Engineer, Windows Developer Platform

Pete is a Principal Software Engineer in the Windows Developer Platform team Windows at Microsoft. He focuses on client-side dev on Windows, apps and technology for musicians, music app developers, and music hardware developers, and the Windows developer community. Pete is also the current chair of the Executive Board of the MIDI Association. He first got into programming and electronic music by working with sprites and the SID chip using BASIC on the Commodore 64 in 6th and 7th grade, and hasn't stopped since. For fun, Pete loves to mess around with synthesizers, embedded devices, CNC machines, and astrophotography. Pete is also a weekend woodworker/carpenter, which means his house is always about half finished inside. :)

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Hello MIDI 2.0 – We’re opening the repo!

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

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

The new Windows MIDI Services – Spring 2023 Update

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

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Unofficial Windows 10 and 11 Audio Workstation build and tweak guide – Part 3

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Part 3 of 3. Tweaks and optimizations for getting the most out of your Windows 10 or 11 workstation, when using with a DAW.

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Podcast interview with DAW software developer Noel Borthwick of Cakewalk by Bandlab

Quickly switching your Power Plan on Windows 10

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You want to save power, but when using your DAW, you want to kick into high-performance mode. This is how.

Unofficial Windows 10 Audio Workstation build and tweak guide – Part 2

February 22nd, 2021
Part 2 of 3. Tweaks and optimizations for getting the most out of your Windows 10 workstation, when using with a DAW.