alt Hacker News> Windows only natively exposes BLE-MIDI through the WinRT API, which almost no DAW polls.
I haven’t used Windows for ages. Does this mean that almost every Windows user with any Bluetooth MIDI keyboard is unable to use it out of the box with their DAW without installing additional third-party software?
Does it apply even to latest version of the very widely used DAWs like Ableton, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Reason, and Reaper?
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harrouet • today at 11:57 AM
If you use a Mac, you'd be amazed at how many things can't be done on Windows without 3rd-party software.
Do you know how to spot a Windows user ? They print-and-scan to merge their PDFs.
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That wouldn't surprise me.
Surprisingly Windows audio stack is a mess. I have a mini keyboard with Bluetooth and it was an adventure to get it working in Windows. In Linux it was pretty much plug and play.
Low latency audio drviers are also messy in Windows when not using an audio interface with well written ASIO drivers. Pipewire in Linux is much easier to configure. Looks like MacOS also does not have this driver problem.
It is surprising. Because most audio plugins and DAWs support only Windows and MacOS.