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Re: Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

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All of my synths are hooked up via USB or Focusrite interface (wired MIDI) because that makes sense for my setup, but this could be cool for more portable setups. The big question is what does your average latency look like?

I haven't measured it as my use cases were not sensitive to latency, but it felt pretty instant. Results will probably vary depending on the Bluetooth adapter, so best is to just test and see!

Re: Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

#42

> 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…

Yes! I was surprised myself it was so complicated, especially as BLE MIDI is not something particularly new (Apple has nailed the implementation much better, luckily Pete at Microsoft is now doing his best to provide a comparable experience). When I played with USB MIDI 25 years ago it felt so much simpler.

Re: Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

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Wow. 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 cab…

Yes, Claude was very helpful to make this project work too (it would have taken me months otherwise to dig into how BLE works, and I'd probably have missed a lot of edge cases)!
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