[This is more for a developer audience but it thought it might be of interest to some SONAR users as well]
 
A heads up for anyone attending the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle this year. Cakewalk and Microsoft are doing a tech talk demonstrating how Win32 applications can take advantage of some of the advancements on the Windows 10 platform. This is the only presentation at Build that focuses on media, audio and MIDI. There are two tech talks scheduled, on Thursday 5/11 2:30PM (Tech Talk C room) and Friday 5/12 10:30AM (Tech Talk C room). 
 
In the tech talks we’ll cover topics such as:

• UWP MIDI API with a hands on demo of how to integrate the UWP Win32 wrapper with a Win32 application
• Bluetooth LE MIDI
• Windows 10 WASAPI low latency audio support 
• Multi-Touch and Pen support
• UWP desktop bridge 

At the talks we’ll be doing a live debug session of SONAR showing code integrating UWP MIDI. I may convince Pete Brown from Microsoft to jam on a Bluetooth MIDI controller with SONAR in that session, and we'll trace the life cycle of a MIDI note which should be fun :)
On Friday between 12 and 3pm, we’re also doing a 3 hour “Solutions Spotlight” which will be a more open format permitting discussion with participants about the topics we’re presenting.
If you’re going to be at Build please stop by or if you know someone attending please let them know about these sessions. The full builds session agenda can be found here as well: https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions
 
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T6100-R1, T6100-R2 Cakewalk SONAR: Win32 lighting up on Windows 10 
1. Speaker(s): Noel Borthwick; Pete Brown
2. Session Type: Tech Talk
3. Technology & Topic: Desktop Bridge, Media, Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
4. Abstract: Cakewalk Sonar is a top music creation and production application for Windows. In this session, learn about the audio, bluetooth, MIDI, and other features Cakewalk has used to light up on Windows 10 from their traditional Win32 app.
5. Session Level: 300 - Experienced
 
The full agenda for this conference can be found here.
https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions

hopefully someone from Cakewalk will take some video and post it to you tube.
I would love to see it. However, living in Boston.. Seattle is on the other side of the states and is impossible for me to get to. Possibly Malcom butler can help me (dig..dig) .
 
 

I won't be attending the conference, but if you're going to be in town for a few days I'd love to buy you a Starbucks and shoot the sh*t for a bit. 

Schedule is likely busy most days but I might be somewhat free today (on the way there). PM me and we can try and meet up.

chuckebaby
hopefully someone from Cakewalk will take some video and post it to you tube.
I would love to see it. However, living in Boston.. Seattle is on the other side of the states and is impossible for me to get to. Possibly Malcom butler can help me (dig..dig) .
 

I'm the only one from Cakewalk there :) However Microsoft is likely filming the tech session and it may be posted on their Channel 9 site later.

If it features on Channel 9, I'd be interested in a link. 

I'm based in the UK, so I can't make Build. However I'm a traditional .NET developer, so I do have an interest.

Interesting, thanks. Have a blast, Noel!

Self flagged as inappropriate. Message deleted.

I know there are a few fellow bit-flippers among the forum members here. I suspect it'll only be you guys who can fully appreciate the brave thing that Noel's about to do: single-step SONAR code in front of a live audience of world-class bit jockeys. That takes supreme confidence in your code. And balls.
 
The reason Noel got invited by Microsoft is that SONAR is the only company out there on the bleeding edge of Windows 10's new audio paradigm. We are all trail-blazers and don't even know it, because for all our nit-picky gripes for the most part SONAR just works.
 
Noel thinks Microsoft will likely be taping the presentation, so with any luck we'll all get to see it at some point.

I've been to a few of those Microsoft events before but passed this one up. If I had been going via work then I would be for the wrong reasons, lol.

Good luck Noel! Should be a good day of nerdy-ness