In the Windows Insider Preview, Microsoft is now providing Windows MIDI Services, a new MIDI stack with MIDI 2.0 support. In the announcement of the Windows preview, Microsoft discusses Windows MIDI ...

For those unfamiliar, MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) was first introduced in 1983 as a standard for synchronising synthesisers and drum machines in electronic music. It enables users to ...

Many applications rely on MIDI for music synthesis, but much of the MIDI support in Windows has been unchanged for decades.

Windows 3.0 arrived in 1990, offering a much refined interface making use of 16 colors, better resource management, and improved usability. It was an impressive improvement on Windows 2.0/2.1, ...