Windows MIDI Services

This project is the next-generation MIDI API for Windows, including MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 (MIDI CI, and MIDI 2.0 UMP). It includes enhancements, a new USB class driver, new transports, and essential tools. The project adds many enhancements and bug fixes to our MIDI 1.0 support, and importantly adds support for the latest revisions to MIDI 2.0 as approved by The MIDI Association.

The open source USB MIDI 2.0 driver has been generously donated by AMEI, the Association of Musical Electronics Industry, and developed by AmeNote ™️ in partnership with Microsoft. Please see the file headers for any additional copyright notices. A huge thank you to AMEI and its member companies for making this happen: AlphaTheta Corporation, INTERNET Co., Ltd., Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd., CRYPTON FUTURE MEDIA, INC., CRIMSON TECHNOLOGY, Inc., KORG INC., Educational Corporation Shobi Gakuen, SyncPower Corporation, ZOOM CORPORATION, SUZUKI MUSICAL INST.MFG.CO.,LTD., TEAC CORPORATION, Yamaha Corporation, Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., Roland Corporation, Analog Devices, K.K.

This is an official Microsoft project. Although Microsoft is an active member of the MIDI Association, and Pete is the chair of the MIDI Association Executive Board, and other contributors are on standards boards, this project is not affiliated with the MIDI Association other than as a consumer of and contributor to the standards. Affiliation with AMEI is disclosed above.

Key documentation

All documentation has been moved to our documentation pages https://aka.ms/midi

Join the Discussion!

Our official community server for this project is on Discord here: https://aka.ms/MidiDiscord

Please keep bug and feature requests in the issues here, but other discussion, live streams, Q&A, and more can happen on Discord. Additionally, we know that not everyone who uses MIDI has access to GitHub, so we welcome additional suggestions, reports, etc. there for those members of the community.

Releases

Please see the releases page

License

• See LICENSE
• For a statement of intent and some other FAQs about forking and more, see FAQ-License-and-Intent.md

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

Security

See SECURITY.md

Trademarks

This project may contain trademarks or logos for projects, products, or services. Authorized use of Microsoft trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines. Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship. Any use of third-party trademarks or logos (AMEI, The MIDI Association, AmeNote, etc.) are subject to those third-party's policies.

Learn more about MIDI 2.0

This project supports both MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 through an updated modern API. MIDI 1.0 has been around since 1983, but MIDI 2.0 is new. You can learn more about it through the links below.

Older videos:

• Windows MIDI and Music Dev Blog
• MIDI is about collaboration, not competition
• MIDI @ 40 and the new Windows MIDI Services
• Join the MIDI Association