Saturday, May 21 MIDI In Music Education webinar with Craig Anderton  Anaheim, CA - May 18, 2022... The MIDI Association has been working furiously behind the scenes over the past year, and we're ready to showcase the results, kicking off a series of events leading to the NAMM Show in June. It all begins Saturday, May 21, celebrating&nbs...

Join the inaugural webinar of the MIDI Association's MIDI in Music Education (MiME) working group.  To celebrate "May is MIDI Month," we welcome Craig Anderton - who's played Carnegie Hall, written 45 books on music technology, and lectured around the world for over four decades.His talk on "Music, MIDI, and the Art of Inspired Instruction" wi...

Los Angeles CA, May 1, 2022 – The MIDI Association announces the release of an update (v1.1) to the MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) (v1.0, January 2018) specification. In March of 2021, the MIDI Association's MPE Working Group reconvened to evaluate the current MPE specification and create an editorial revision. The working group has gone over the...

On May 28 at 10 am Pacific, 1 PM Eastern and 6 PM in the UK, LJ Rich will host the 2022 MIDI Innovation Awards This year we are incredibly lucky to have LJ Rich hosting the MIDI Innovation Awards (MIA) show which will feature the 15 finalists from the 5 categories interacting with our international panel of judges. World-renowned per...

Check out over 100 entrants and then vote for your favorites There are five distinct categories (listed below) for the 2022 MIDI Innovation Awards. From May 1 to May 14, you will be able to select three entrants from each category to be the finalists who will participate in the May 28 MIDI Innovation Awards show on MIDI.org. When voting, you d...

From the fountains at the Bellagio to Beethoven's 10th Symphony, MIDI has been powering live music and immersive experiences for nearly 40 years. In this week's episode, Tristra Newyear Yeager sits down with Athan Billias and Brett Porter from the MIDI association to explore the latest innovations in MIDI 2.0.  Learn more about the MIDI A...

The TMA (The MIDI Association) announces TMA (Two Major Announcements) Introducing MOM (MIDI Over Morse Code)   We are excited to announce that we have abandoned all future development on MIDI 2.0 and will focus instead on MIDI over Morse code (MOM) on HAM radio.  If you have any questions about this new specification, please send this me...

March is MPE month at KVR  To celebrate MPE Month, KVR has partnered with top brands including ROLI (MIDI Association Member), UVI, Arturia, Bitwig (MIDI Association Member), Expressive E (MIDI Association Member), Newfangled Audio and Swar VST to provide a handful of lucky winners with some of the best MPE enabled tools availab...

 Our friends over at Rock, Paper, Scissors who run the Music Tectonic events have a live webinar tomorrow featuring MIDI Member Artiphon. WEDNESDAY: Music Tech Tools for Making Music March 9, 2022 10 AM PT | 1 PM ET | 6 PM UK This week's Seismic Activity is a hot one: two pocket-sized music-making tools that pack in a ton of features! Mee...

THE MIDI INNOVATION AWARDS  The MIDI Innovation awards give a platform to MIDI innovation. This enables winners to accelerate their product ideas through connections to the industry, as well as increase their visibility among musicians and the NAMM community of trade professionals. The MIDI Innovation Awards rewards products, prototypes, insta...

MIDI 2.0 — What's New and How it Will Affect the Way We Work  Join Jennifer Hruska as she moderates a discussion with leading experts about this major update to the MIDI specification. The original specification was released in 1983 and for 35 years remained at version 1.0. It has literally revolutionised the way in which electronic instrument...

The MIDI Association, Music China and the Chinese Musical Instrument Association cooperate together to promote MIDI in China In the past year, with the help of MIDI Association Exec Board member Yitian Zhao, CEO of CME and Technical Standards Board member Joe Zhang of Medeli, the MIDI Association has greatly expanded our promotion of MIDI in China....

The MIDI in Music Education (MiME) Special Interest Group has a goal to define a MIDI Certification Program During 2021, Athan Billias (MIDI Association President), Denis Labrecque (former MIDI Association Exec Board member) , and Lee Whitmore (MIDI Association Board Member and Treasurer)  initiated biweekly meetings of the MIDI...

MIDI Association member Roland announced the latest addition to their growing family of MIDI capable digital wind instruments at CES 2022. Aerophone AE-20 provides a wide range of stunningly authentic acoustic instrument sounds at the touch of a button. Soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxes are on hand, plus clarinet, flute, trumpet, and mo...

The source of CME's WIDI Wireless MIDI technology available for MIDI developers WIDI Core is your smart (BLE) breakout board that implements premium MIDI over Bluetooth Low Energy functionality as designed & developed by CME.  What can you do with WIDI Core (X)?  The breakout board can be built into any existing piece of MIDI equipmen...

MIDI Association contributor Walter Werzowa was featured on CNN today (Dec 26, 2021) One of the best things about the MIDI Association is the great people we get to meet and associate with. After all they don't call it an association for nothing.  This year during May Is MIDI Month, we were putting together a panel on ...

The Santasizer - MIDI Controlled Santa madness Sam Battle (LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER) released a new MIDI creation just in time for Christmas- "The Santasizer." It's a choir of toy Santas that can be played from a MIDI keyboard.  Add some MIDI and modular synths for the sound track and you have everything you need to have a very MIDI Chri...

Dezeen names top rebrands of 2021 and lists Facebook's Meta, Volvo and the Whitehouse along with MIDI 2.0 Dezeen is the world's most popular and influential architecture, interiors and design magazine, with over three million monthly readers and six million social media followers. Pentagram makes this list again with its brand identity for Mus...

 MIDI Association Member Udo Audio adds Super 6 Desktop to their lineup Offering the flexible and immediate control, gorgeous analog sound and unrivalled build quality of the Super 6, but in a more compact package. The Super 6 Desktop is a fully-featured Super 6 analog-hybrid 12 voice synthesizer, housed in a newly designed all-metal chassis. ...

MIDI Association member Moog Music release announced Animoog Z is available as a free download. A decade after its release as Moog Music's first professional synthesizer for iOS devices, the award-winning Animoog Anisotropic Synth Engine (ASE) app sees a complete transformation, reborn as Animoog Z. The evolved iteration of the app, now a...

MIDI Association member DoreMIDI announced the MPC10 Pedal convertor MIDI Pedal Converter (MPC-10) is a converter designed by DOREMiDi that can automatically detect multiple types of instrument pedals and convert the signals from the pedals into MIDI Messages.  This product is compatible with positive polarity expression pedal, reverse po...

MIDI Association member Moforte announced Geoswam II created in collaboration with MIDI Association member Audio Modeling GeoSWAM II, beautifully inspired physically modeled instruments including GeoTrumpet, GeoBassTrombone, GeoBassFlute, GeoViola and GeoPizzBass, all powered by Audio Modeling's SWAM technology. The GeoSWAM II instruments are aweso...

MIDI Association member Bome Software announced their MIDI networking and routing tool is now available in the Apple App Store. Connect your iPad or iPhone to the BomeBox' built-in WiFi: now all MIDI gear plugged into the BomeBox can be used with and from your mobile device.Or access the BomeBox(es) via an existing WiFi hub using WiFi or ...

MIDI Association member Media Overkill announced Miniraze and a special Bob Moog Foundation 15th Anniversary Miniraze Sound Bank   Miniraze is a powerful yet approachable wave-slicing virtual synth that offers you sounds for the future, inspired by the past. Featuring MOK's patented wave-slicing engine, Miniraze gives you the ab...