The audio and MIDI APIs for Windows 10 will be unified, midiapi

The audio and MIDI APIs for Windows 10 will be unified, midiapi
Microsoft integrated Windows 10 audio and MIDI APIs

Microsoft gave a keynote speech at the A3E Conference on NAMM in the summer. They made new plans for audio and MIDI APIs for Windows 10, applications developed by developers for Windows 10 can also run on mobile phones, tablets, desktops, and Raspberry Pi 2.

 

Microsoft has been very low-profile in terms of audio, or has never been concerned about audio developers. This time, Windows 10 suddenly became high-profile and there were many improvements in audio and MIDI in Windows 10:

• Midi api: All Windows 10 devices are supported. The new API allows multiple programs to access the same MIDI device without the jitter operation, and fixes some previous bugs.
• Audio Stack optimization: lower latency and lower power consumption. Allows developers to define the minimum buffer delay time. on mobile phones, they have reduced the latency of more than 100 milliseconds to more than 10 milliseconds.
• Audio Core optimization: You can define and separate all Core Audio processing to a single CPU Core for computing without being interrupted by other operations.
• AudioGraph API: Based on WASAPI, developers can easily write audio programs in any supported language. It has many built-in modules, such as sampling, reading, and playing.
• Native support for FLAC and ALAC encoding and decoding
• The new Edge browser supports Web Audio
• Http://www.cnblogs.com/jihua/

Then Microsoft also said that there are more in its plan:

• Support for Bluetooth MIDI
• Lower latency
• Supports MIDI Jumpers
• Supports audio jumper and heap 11
• Support USB 3/3. 1
• Support for lightning 3
• Support USB-C Interface
• USB Audio 2 classic drive
• And so on.

At the conference, Microsoft also showed akai mpc embedded in Windows 10 (isn't it a blue screen ?). Propellerhead shows the touch-supported Figure (not released) running on Windows 10. FL Studio demonstrates the touch-supported FL Studio Mobile 3 (not released) developed for Windows 10 ), bitWig also displays the touch BitWig Studio (not released ).

It seems that we can expect Windows 10 to have a bright future in the professional audio field?