Hello,
I came across this post by chance; is it important for us or for our DAWs?
If you have an opinion, I’d be glad to hear it.
Cheers
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Hello.
Very interesting subject indeed.
This is the first part of Microsoft’s global effort to get to a natively usable environment to make music with.
Until now, Windows MIDI native driver was not so good. With the MIDI 2.0 specification being finalized, the MIDI Association worked in partnership with Microsoft to bring us a new driver, with support for MIDI2, huge improvements on reliability, and tooling (you can now have a very good midi console, with MIDI 2 support, all that natively in Windows - good bye my old friend MIDI-OX sorry).
Another very interesting part for tech people is that this driver is open source. It can be forked for your specific needs, or used as-is with any MIDI device. Nice move.
Note that the second part of this very interesting topic can be read here.
I did mention it here quite a long time ago but we’ve never been closer as today.
So after bringing a very good MIDI driver, they will bring us a new Audio (UAC2) driver , with ASIO support. Again, natively in Windows (good bye my old friend Asio4All, sorry).
With the new Windows ARM working great on Surfaces laptot running Snapdragon processors (CPU + GPU + NPU), I feel that Microsoft are trying very hard to get back to Apple music making level for it’s OS. Which is a very good thing for all of us.
Cheers !
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Some of us have been talking about this for quite some time now.
I’ve had some dialogue with one of the beta testers for it, and they were VERY excited about where this is heading and have had very positive experiences so far with this.
I REALLY hope we get something similar, OR BETTER, than Core Audio on The Mac… That would be FANTASTIC and not overdue!
Exciting times for us PC users! 
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Hi all,
It will be great, if development for MIDI 2.0 will accelerate now.
Lower Audio latency will also be great. Especially if an improvement wont put more load on a CPU. We will see.
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