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 ...

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

For many, MIDI means SoundBlaster cards, chiptunes, and WAD files played to the sound of a killer synth score. But Microsoft Windows has begun previewing MIDI 2.0, the first update to the MIDI ...