In the Windows Insider Preview, Microsoft is now providing Windows MIDI Services, a new MIDI stack with MIDI 2.0 support. In the announcement of the Windows preview, Microsoft discusses Windows MIDI ...

Many applications rely on MIDI for music synthesis, but much of the MIDI support in Windows has been unchanged for decades.

For those unfamiliar, MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) was first introduced in 1983 as a standard for synchronising synthesisers and drum machines in electronic music. It enables users to ...

In a nutshell: The MIDI 2.0 standard was introduced in 2020, nearly 40 years after the original version. MIDI remains a crucial technology for musicians and music producers, and its utility on PCs is ...