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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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.

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.