Windows 11 is rolling out the biggest update to MIDI since the musical communication format was first released in 1983. Microsoft announced that its latest Windows 11 Canary test build includes a public preview of Windows MIDI Services, which supports MIDI 2.0 and updates allowing MIDI 1.0 to run on Windows on Arm.

Microsoft released today the first public preview of Windows MIDI Services, which adds support for the MIDI 2.0 protocol on Windows 11 and more.

For many, MIDI means SoundBlaster cards, chiptunes, and WAD files played to the sound of a killer synth score. But Microsoft Windows has begun previewing MIDI 2.0, the first update to the MIDI protocol since 1983.

Preview arrives in Canary Channel, release planned for Windows 10 and 11 Microsoft has released its first in-box public preview of Windows MIDI Services with full support for the MIDI 2.0 standard.… The preview is part of build 27788 of the Windows 11 Insider Preview Canary Channel,