Tried with the Yamaha Seqtrak on Windows 10, didn't work.
Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
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#12This is really interesting. Windows device handling can be tricky sometimes, especially when things work at one layer but fail silently at another. The channel detection approach is clever.
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#13For what it is worth, Microsoft is in the process of rolling out Windows Midi Services for Windows 11. https://microsoft.github.io/MIDI/
A few more years and we might be able to approach Atari ST levels of MIDI performance…
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#14> Windows only natively exposes BLE-MIDI through the WinRT API, which almost no DAW polls. I haven’t used Windows for ages. Does this mean that almost every Windows user with any Bluetooth MIDI keyboard is unable to use it out of the box with their DAW without installing additional third-party software? Does it apply even to latest version of the very widely used DAWs like Ableton, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Reason, and R…
If you use a Mac, you'd be amazed at how many things can't be done on Windows without 3rd-party software. Do you know how to spot a Windows user ? They print-and-scan to merge their PDFs.
This is a weird comment because I feel the same about getting macOS to a useable place.
I probably have 5 or 6 things installed on my Mac like Scroll Reverse and Rectangle, just trying to beat the window manager into something that resembles useable.
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#15Wow. That looks really painful. I have multiple pianos, always used cable because I wanted it to work without problems in Linux and Mac. Also I can't stand delays.
I have created 20 utils or so with the help of Claude, in order to practice multiple things like reading sheet music, or rhythms, or different scales. I never expected it to be that useful as my new Yamaha was bought before Claude existed, and having a cable that just works is so great.
I have spent way less effort doing all my utils than this man into just connecting its machine.
Before using it with Claude I used them a lot with Synthesia and GarageBand, but with Claude is like having a personal trainer.
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#16For what it is worth, Microsoft is in the process of rolling out Windows Midi Services for Windows 11. https://microsoft.github.io/MIDI/
Why on earth is the "Windows MIDI Services is Here" thing a slider/carousel with one element in it? Why are the buttons completely misplaced with no margin between them? Has a human seen and tried this before they just deployed everything and went live?
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#17For what it is worth, Microsoft is in the process of rolling out Windows Midi Services for Windows 11. https://microsoft.github.io/MIDI/
A few more years and we might be able to approach Atari ST levels of MIDI performance…
Never gonna happen. The architecture of modern hardware and operating systems won't allow for that kind of low latency and jitter.
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#18For what it is worth, Microsoft is in the process of rolling out Windows Midi Services for Windows 11. https://microsoft.github.io/MIDI/
Why on earth is the "Windows MIDI Services is Here" thing a slider/carousel with one element in it? Why are the buttons completely misplaced with no margin between them? Has a human seen and tried this before they just deployed everything and went live?
Because slopsoft.
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#19For what it is worth, Microsoft is in the process of rolling out Windows Midi Services for Windows 11. https://microsoft.github.io/MIDI/
Why on earth is the "Windows MIDI Services is Here" thing a slider/carousel with one element in it? Why are the buttons completely misplaced with no margin between them? Has a human seen and tried this before they just deployed everything and went live?
Valid questions even if all of them are rhetorical.
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