What
WE Do
We are an all-volunteer, nonprofit trade association whose mission is to make it easier for everyone to create music and art digitally. We nurture a global community of creative people who share a passion for music, art and innovation.
MIDI 2.0 Inspires
Innovation
The State of MIDI 2.0: High-Resolution Performance and the Rise of Profiles- Update Feb, 2026
MIDI 2.0 is explicitly designed as an extension of MIDI 1.0: it preserves the core musical semantics (channels, notes, controllers, program changes, etc.) while modernizing how messages are packaged, negotiated, […]
Microsoft Blog Explains What’s New for MIDI In Windows 11
MIDI Association Exec Board chair Pete Brown and Gary Daniels (both from MIDI Association member Microsoft) just published an article on the Windows blog about how “Making music with MIDI […]
The Piano Profile at NAMM 2026
One of the most important things that The MIDI Association showed off at NAMM 2026 was The Piano Profile. The Piano Profile standardizes the velocity and pedal curves and the […]
SMF2 Container Format For Data Exchange
Update at NAMM 2026 At the 2026 NAMM show, Ben Israel from Yamaha’s Content and Research Development Center explained The MIDI Project Container File format. The SMF 2 container format […]
