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It's no surprise that Arm64 PCs hit a sweet spot for music creation and live performance. They are thin and light, have excellent battery life (I used a Surface Laptop 7 at the entire NAMM show and never had to charge it despite giving presentations and demos), great screens, USB-4 ports that support Thunderbolt 3, and are super quiet. They continu...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.