Hello,
(This concerne Windows users)
I’ve just asked a question in the general topic Windows 10 and Midi API (Multiple apps with 1 Midi device) - #3 by tepa - Cubase - Steinberg Forums :
“What is common behavior on Windows is that two applications can’t use the same MIDI ports at once, and what’s also common behavior is that a DAW will lock up all of the MIDI ports making it impossible for another application to do anything with MIDI.”
Iam on Windows 8.1 and since now i have mostly been able to get around this problem with Midi-Ox and LoopBe30, but sometimes i still get conflict with midi communication hardware.
Yesterday i read that Windows 10 have a new internal system operation for midi :
“MIDI API - also available across all Windows 10 devices - this new API allows multi-client access to single MIDI hardware, new jitter-free operation, plus other bug fixes - we hope they embrace the RTP MIDI (over the network too)” .
On my side with a couple of hardware i wish Windows could be more effective with midi port, and now with Windows 10 it’s seems that the door is open for developper to make it available for DAW
I would very wellcome a multi-applications midi access to single MIDI hardware, that would make midi port communication/management so much easer
And with midi tools like Lemur and midi Soft like some Editor for hardware, in some situation used at the same time with Cubase, this fonction is really a must have, at least for my need, but i guess for many using those hardware tools and midi soft
I wish to be able to use Cubase and Soft Editor hardware at the same time in a more easy way with no turn around solution like now.