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Built a free open-source BLE-MIDI bridge for Windows - Roland, Yamaha, etc.

Reddit r/synthesizers·u/mayerwin·about 1 month ago
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Built a free open-source BLE-MIDI bridge for Windows - Roland, Yamaha, etc. Just open-sourced something I built to scratch a personal itch. Bluetooth MIDI on Windows is a minefield: paired keyboards aren't visible to most DAWs, some devices need a fully encrypted link before they accept MIDI, a few only respond to WriteWithResponse, and at least one major piano line (Roland FP-X) silently receives on a different MIDI channel than the panel says. The app handles each of those explicitly and routes the keyboard through the new Windows MIDI Services loopback so any DAW or Chrome Web MIDI site sees a normal MIDI port. There's a Detect button that fires test notes on each channel until you hear the burst, then saves the right channel per BLE MAC, so you only do it once per device.…

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