Mid 2025 for customer previews (for technical customers) is the first time folks will be able to try it out with general USB Audio Class 2 devices.
Pete
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Thanks Pete. A bit disappointing as I’m using my laptop all the time now, but I hope compatibility with everything like Apple Silicon (Arm) will be available eventually.
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The main thing for me now is Ilok, I have quite a few plug-ins that use it.
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So, are there laptops or devices, now from non-traditional manufacturers?
Agreed iLok is an important step – hopefully Pete can work some magic with them and get them to pay more attention! 
I thought I’d do an update to my Samsung X elite laptop.
I managed to get Asio4all to work at 128 samples, or three msec of latency. Albeit, there’s no input only output, which is fine for me, cause I’m mostly mixing at the moment. With the Dom Sigalas test I can run 220 tracks at 3msec latency with Cubas 14, I can still get low latency input and output via my Steinberg IXO 22.
I’ve managed to get other plug-ins from GForce and Plugin Alliance to work. Haven’t had any crashes, so far and even at flat out usage, fan is pretty quiet.
RME just released a Windows Arm driver.
I just tried my Fireface 802 with my Samsung X Elite laptop and managed 220 tracks wit Dom Sigalas’s Cubase test at 128 samples, pretty damn impressive! Thank you RME!
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Hi Pete
I programmed my audio and light shows right from the era of the Korg SQD and Atari 1040ST. As soon as I went to Windows, MIDI timing always felt “drunk” and unsteady compared to the ancient Atari computers running at 8MHz. Probably because of Assembler language accessing the hardware without extra layers of code.
All my reverbs for the Sound Canvas SC55 and later SC8850 were modified via SysEx, including the display of song titles right on the SC8850 sound module.
I was also programming MIDI daily when Roland released their MIDI GS Standard, which allowed 128 sounds, each sound having 128 variants. This was great to browse through Bass guitars or different strings, or Drum kits, depending on the song.
I was, and still am a full timer live performer, and migrated to mp3s, but to still have my light show, I have a software that I co-designed, that launches both the MIDI file and mp3 at the same time. This allows my light show to follow the audio.
Just curious what you think, in implementing Audio, MIDI, and SysEx, without making the user go into painful hexadecimal programming of SysEx.
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Sorry, just noticed this question.
But I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking. SysEx can be different for each device, so you end up with editors specific to the device. Sometimes those are available. But most everything else is handled for you with tools like Cubase and various plugins. Most musicians never write any SysEx messages manually.
Maybe you can elaborate a bit on what you are asking or what you’re trying to do?
Pete
Microsoft
Nice to see continued progress:
Why wont MS open up this for other manufacturers? Qualcomm is pretty overpriced compared to Mediatek, and they’re not lagging that much behind in performance…
Ok, I’ve had this laptop (Samsung Galaxy Snapdragon Elite)for over a year and it looks like it will be another year before all of my apps catch up, by then it will be obsolete!
Bummer…
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