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Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

news.ycombinator.com·news.ycombinator.com·about 1 month ago
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Hi HN, I'm Erwin. I built a small free open-source utility that bridges Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards into the new Windows MIDI Services stack so any DAW or Web MIDI app can use them as if they were wired. I bought a Roland FP-90X piano partly because it had Bluetooth MIDI. On my Windows 11 PC, pairing succeeded, but my DAW couldn't see the keyboard, and notes I sent from the PC never made the piano sing. After a regrettable number of evenings, I'd separated this into three independent bugs stacked on top of each other. The first one is the famous one: Windows only natively exposes BLE-MIDI through the WinRT API, which almost no DAW polls. So even when pairing succeeds, MIDI apps still don't see the device. The usual workaround is MIDIberry + loopMIDI, but I couldn't get that combination to work reliably in my case, and I wanted a single-app solution.…

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