# Experimental support for the Windows Runtime MIDI API

**URL:** <https://forum.juce.com/t/experimental-support-for-the-windows-runtime-midi-api/21049>\
**Category:** Windows\
**Created:** [February 20, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/experimental-support-for-the-windows-runtime-midi-api/21049 "2017-02-20T18:10:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/experimental-support-for-the-windows-runtime-midi-api/21049/35 "2018-11-02T15:24:56Z")

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As of the very latest version of Windows 10 (1809, October 2018 Update), which contains the BLE fixes, JUCE support for the WinRT MIDI API is no longer “experimental”:

> [@Support for the Windows 10 WinRT MIDI API](https://forum.juce.com/t/support-for-the-windows-10-winrt-midi-api/30146):
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> Hi all. Following some recent fixes in the latest version of Windows 10 (1809, October 2018 Update) JUCE is now compatible with the WinRT MIDI API. From this commit [https://github.com/WeAreROLI/JUCE/commit/d83360a7714700ddc7aa145eb55746d205ca88e2](https://github.com/WeAreROLI/JUCE/commit/d83360a7714700ddc7aa145eb55746d205ca88e2) selecting the JUCE\_USE\_WINRT\_MIDI option in the juce\_audio\_devices module will mean that when running on the latest version of Windows and beyond your JUCE apps will use the new MIDI API. On Windows versions before this your code will automatically f…

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