Hi Aaron,
Thank you for the fast reply, and for your advice. Indeed, I use P.C. A lot of my company customers (music production industry) use Mac computers. But most of the engineering software I use for design requires a P.C.). Mac has a lot of music support. The PC has more science and engineering software.
I will take a second look. So far, when I switch the Windows 10 computer “MIDI ON” it offers 2 options. If I choose “Bluetooth Audio” and enter “0000” for the code, it works. When I choose “Bluetooth Midi” it informs me that it is missing some software. I will try to get to the bottom of it, but it is not urgent.
From the Roland website: “And with Bluetooth MIDI, you’re able to connect with fun music composition apps like Roland’s Zenbeats or Apple’s GarageBand”.
The “Piano designer” and “Piano Everyday” are also “Bluetooth Midi”. but I did not find anything else.
Why did the choose not do everything with “Bluetooth Midi”? It works for receiving lessons, and for playing files from a device. But for using the piano as a midi controller, I would need to use a Midi Cable. I don’t think Roland missed it. It is probably because Bluetooth is known for it’s latency, a problem for playing along or over-dubbing tracks.
@dan5 see if either of these links offer any clues that could be useful. The first one is an answers.microsoft.com forum one where the support answer is not very useful, but there are some other good pointers there. The second link is pointed to in that thread and seems to have some potentially useful info in there:
Hi Dan,
I’m not sure why the bluetooth midi is more complicated than the bluetooth audio but that seems to be the case. Bluetooth audio is instantly recognized by all of my Mac OS devices. Bluetooth midi took some trouble shooting and having to set up my Macbook OS audio/midi ap but once I was able to do that I am now able to see the FP-90x in all of my software aps. There is a bit of latency but as I am using it to practice and explore different sample libraries I own it does not bother me. If I was going to the next step to actually record I think I would need to go the midi cable route to get as little latency as possible.
Hi soloist,
Thanks for the pointers. I think that the Yamaha adaptor is only for Mac. And the number of issues in the thread seems un inviting. The second thread is about Windows 11 Bluetooth is broken for that device.