Pete Brown

Principal Software Engineer, Windows + Devices (APS)

Pete is a Principal Software Engineer in the APS (formerly PAX) team in Panos Panay's Windows and Devices organization 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. 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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Take Control of Windows Updates on your Windows 11 DAW PC

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

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The 40th anniversary of MIDI. Why MIDI is important to me. Brief introduction to the new Windows MIDI Services.

Load x64 Plug-ins (like VSTs) from your Arm Code using Arm64EC

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VSTs are mostly 64 bit Intel code. This post shows how to compile the VST host in your Arm DAW to use them.

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.

Interview with a DAW Developer: Noel Borthwick from Cakewalk

March 9th, 2021
Podcast interview with DAW software developer Noel Borthwick of Cakewalk by Bandlab
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Quickly switching your Power Plan on Windows 10

March 8th, 2021
You want to save power, but when using your DAW, you want to kick into high-performance mode. This is how.
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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.

Unofficial Windows 10 Audio Workstation build and tweak guide – Part 1

February 18th, 2021
Part 1 of 3. Tweaks and optimizations for getting the most out of your Windows 10 workstation, when using with a DAW.

Load more VSTs : Effectively removing the FLS Slot allocation limit in Windows 10

October 14th, 2020
FLS slots are a limited resource in Windows. This blog post talks about the importance of the slots, and what we did to change the limit.
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How to report BLE MIDI connection or communication issues in Windows 10

September 17th, 2020
Bluetooth Low Energy MIDI (BLE MIDI) devices are all a little different. If you run into problems connecting to the device, or sending or receiving MIDI data, we'll need a diagnostic trace to be able to understand what happened. This blog post explains how to capture and report any BLE MIDI issue you find.

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