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With the new release of windows 10, midi over bluetooth LE is possible. Is there any thought to enable Band in a Box to be able to recognize these devices.

Is it my understanding that microsoft has made a wrapper available to test for these devices and wrap a midi32 layer in the application. there is more info on the windows developer website.

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Hi Phil .
From all reports on various studio forums and websites that I have read so far (ie; not tried myself) ..., all claim that ...,

Midi over bluetooth introduces too much latency, and also has a tendency to not be as reliable in capturing all the notes compared to using USB or Midi pin cables.

Perhaps others here have tried it ? ..,

I have bluetooth setting turned off on my mac pro , as that in itself is another taxing feature on your CPU .

But if you want to test the latency for yourself .., open a DAW / set the click / then record single midi notes (on the click) as accurately as you can play them / then note how many ticks or milliseconds they got placed away from the gridlines ..,

Then repeat this experiment by first turning off bluetooth , and then connecting the midi cables / then repeat the same experiment as above (but via the cables) .., and note the differences

Note : many users have reported dropped notes also when using the bluetooth method.


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Hi Phil, great suggestion! I don't currently know a lot about MIDI over Bluetooth but on the Windows side, would it not just use a MIDI interface driver that Windows-based software would just see as an IN and OUT?

If that's the case, Band-in-a-Box should already support connection of MIDI devices, it would be the driver's job to wrap the communication over Bluetooth from the In/Out, to the wirelessly connected Bluetooth adapter.


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Hi. I'm following up to see if anyone has first-hand experience with using a Bluetooth MIDI controller with BIAB. I'm interested particularly in the Korg microKey Air and the CME XKey Air. A couple of reviews have claimed that the latency isn't noticeable, and if that's true, I would love to get hold of one of these. But if latency gets in the way, obviously, there'd be no point. Does anyone have any experience and/or other thoughts?

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