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The latest MIDI news, product releases and event annoucements. 

Music Tectonics Features Music Tech Tools from Artiphon

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 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...

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PTZOptics Brings MIDI Control to PTZ Cameras

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New firmware update allows users to control a PTZ camera with any MIDI device  Downingtown, PA - May 26, 2022. PTZOptics, leading manufacturers of affordable broadcast-quality robotic cameras, and the MIDI Association, the international stewards of MIDI technology, today announce a new frontier for MIDI control. In a joint project, rapidl...

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Sequential Circuits Founder Dave Smith has passed away

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It's with great sadness that we announce that Dave Smith has passed away The MIDI Association wouldn't exist without Dave's contributions to MIDI, but having known Dave for over 30 years and worked closely with him at Korg (and also in getting the Sequential name back when I was a Yamaha), he was also not actually a big fan of being called the "Fat...

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The MIDI Association Announces MIDI 2.0 Over A2B™

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Los Angeles, CA - June 1, 2022.The MIDI Association announced today the addition of MIDI 2.0 capabilities to the Automotive Audio Bus (A2B®) from Analog Devices, Inc. The technology was showcased at the MIDI Association booth #10300 at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California on June 3-5, 2022.  A2B® is a high bandwidth, bidirectional, digital aud...

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Playful Products with MIDI at NAMM 2022

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Join MIDI Association President Athan Billias, Big Ear Games Aviv Ben-Yahuda , Playtronics' Sacha Pas and Playtime Engineering's Troy Sheets for a discussion of playful products that use MIDI from the June 2022 NAMM show.  Sorry, it took awhile to get this interview up. But it was an entertaining conversation. Just remembering how great i...

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More Playful Products with MIDI at NAMM 2022

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Join MIDI Association President Athan Billias, artiphon's Emma Supica and Oddball's Pasquale Totaro for a discussion of playful (and round) products that use MIDI from the June 2022 NAMM show  Follow the bouncing ball as it sends out MIDI messages and learn how music teachers in Anaheim are getting kids to express thei...

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The MIDI Association at Synthplex 2022

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Live events are starting to happen again after a long layoff and the MIDI Association is excited to be participating in Synthplex. October 27-October 30, 2022Los Angeles Burbank Airport Convention Center2500 North Hollywood Way Burbank, California 91505 We will be at Booth 58 and we will be joined by MIDI Association companies who have their own bo...

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The MIDI Association Announces the v1.1 Update to the MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) Specification

The MIDI Association Announces the v1.1 Update to the MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) Specification

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...

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MIDI Association hosts multiple events and makes multiple announcements at June NAMM 2022

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Behind the scenes at the NAMM Show 2022 The first day of set up for a trade show is always interesting because you get to see all the behind the scenes action.  Like most trade shows in the US, Freeman is the company that provides all the  infrastructure for the NAMM show from carpet to drapes to the AV gear ...

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The June NAMM MIDI Zone Virtual Tour

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NAMM puts MIDI on the map at the June NAMM show  We covered all the MIDI Association booths (10300, The MIDI Zone Lounge and Studio 108) in our last article and now it is time to dive into the booths of MIDI Association and AMEI members at the June NAMM show.   With NAMM's cooperation, we were able to put together a solid b...

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