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Bluetooth MIDI keyboards in Ableton on Windows: free open-source bridge, no MIDIberry needed

Reddit r/ableton·u/mayerwin·about 1 month ago
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Bluetooth MIDI keyboards in Ableton on Windows: free open-source bridge, no MIDIberry needed Hi r/ableton. Sharing a small free open-source Windows utility I built. Solves a fairly painful gap between Ableton and Bluetooth MIDI keyboards on Windows. The problem: pair a BLE-MIDI keyboard with Windows and Ableton just doesn't see it in MIDI preferences. Cause is that Windows only natively exposes BLE-MIDI through the WinRT API, which Ableton doesn't poll. The classic answer is MIDIberry + loopMIDI, which works but is fragile (the 20-second-disconnect bug bites a lot of people). The app does the BLE side directly and routes the keyboard through the new Windows MIDI Services loopback so Ableton just sees a normal MIDI input.…

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