Microsoft announced that its latest Windows 11 Canary test build includes a public preview of Windows MIDI Services, which ...

The Windows MIDI Services App SDK, available as a separate, out-of-band release on GitHub, provides developers with the tools ...

Windows MIDI Services includes the updated MIDI stack, not only including MIDI 2.0 but also an update to MIDI 1.0 that allows it to run on Arm64 as well as Windows.

Windows 11's new MIDI stack further enhances performance with improved timing, reduced jitter in data exchange, and a faster MIDI driver that supports both MIDI 1.0 and 2.0 devices.

How to play MIDI files in Windows 11/10. If you want to just play MIDI files on your PC, you can use media player software like VLC. Thankfully, Windows Media Player also supports MIDI as input ...

Windows MIDI Services will also automatically translate between MIDI 1.0 and 2.0, depending on what the API, app and devices require. The apps also have far more metadata at their disposal.

Lime is another software to convert MIDI to MusicXML on Windows 11/10 PC. It is primarily a sheet music software that supports MIDI and MusicXML file formats as input and output, respectively.

Windows 11 is rolling out MIDI 2.0, the biggest update to MIDI since the musical communication format was first released in 1983. MIDI 2.0 support is ready for testing. Skip to main content.