Windows MIDI Services

Windows MIDI Services is the new MIDI API, Service, Tools, and SDK rolling out to retail Microsoft Windows throughout the next month. Pete Brown and Gary Daniels from Microsoft will show off Windows MIDI Services top features for musicians and developers, explain some of what is going on under the hood, and then answer your questions.

Windows MIDI Services is a modern, rebuilt system for handling Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) on Windows, offering full support for both legacy MIDI 1.0 and the new MIDI 2.0 standard with Universal MIDI Packets (UMP), enabling faster, more reliable communication, simultaneous multi-client access to devices, automatic translation between versions, and new tools like the MIDI Services Console for management and diagnostics, all built on an open-source foundation for future expansion.