Windows 11 Finally Hits Right Note: MIDI 2.0 Support Arrives

Windows 11 finally hits right note: MIDI 2.0 support arrives

: Musical instrument digital interface protocol leaves preview for bright lights of General Availability

Windows 11’s new MIDI framework delivers MIDI 2.0 – OSnews

It’s been well over a year since Microsoft unveiled it was working on bringing MIDI 2.0 to Windows, and now it’s actually here available for everyone. We’ve been working on MIDI over the past several years, completely rewriting decades of MIDI 1.0 code on Windows to both support MIDI 2.0 and make MIDI 1.0 amazing. This new combined stack is called “Windows MIDI Services.” The Windows MIDI Services core components are built into Windows 11, roll…

MIDI 2.0 support finally lands in Windows 11

Windows is not generally a platform that is associated with making music – it is something that tends to be the domain of Mac devices. But with the arrival of MIDI 2.0 support in Windows 11, Microsoft will be hoping that this could soon change. The MIDI specification is vital to so much of the music making process, that it is hard to imagine where we would be without it. While Windows has included support for MIDI 1.0 for many, many years, addin…