MIDI Association Exec Board chair Pete Brown and Gary Daniels (both from MIDI Association member Microsoft) just published an article on the Windows blog about how “Making music with MIDI just got a real boost in Windows 11”.
One of the things that is covered in the article is the new ability to allow multiple apps to use the same MIDI port/device at the same time. So now Windows is multi-client.
The No. 1 request for MIDI in Windows has been to allow multiple apps to use the same MIDI port/device at the same time. We call that “multi-client.”
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The second biggest request for MIDI was to provide better MIDI 1.0 port names. With this release, you have control over the names:
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In-particular, we’d like to call out AMEI (Association of Musical Electronics Industry Japan) for their incredible work in testing, and for their donation of the AmeNote-developed USB MIDI 2.0 driver.