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The latest MIDI news, product releases and event annoucements with sub-categories for The MIDI Innovation Awards and our three special interest groups- Interactive Audio focused in the Game Audio Community, MIDI In Music Education and the newest Music Accessibility. 

The Korg SQ64 Polyphonic Sequencer- Step up your Connectivity and Control

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Just like MIDI itself, the Korg SQ64 hardware sequencer focuses on connectivity and control  The SQ-64 is unique in its ability to drive MIDI and modular synths letting you create music with all your synth gear without the need for a computer, tablet or cellphone. It features four hardware based sequencer tra...

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MIDI Association Member Muse Group Acquires Audacity

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Within days of announcing their new group brand name, Muse Group (a music company focused on open source software) acquired Audacity.  Audacity will add to Muse Group's other brands that are all base open source standards.  Martin Keary who previously worked at MIDI Association member Microsoft talks about joining Audacity....

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The Healing Power of Music Webinar -MIMM 2021 Week 1

Saturday May 8, 2021, May Is MIDI Month 2021 Webinar The Healing Power of Music The webinar kicked off with Michael Boddicker who has played synthesizer, vocoder, accordion and keyboards on albums by many notables such as Quincy Jones, Randy Newman, The Manhattan Transfer and The Bee Gees and worked on many soundtracks including...

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Steinberg Updates Cubasis 3 with tons of new MIDI features

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 Steinberg released the latest update (3.3) to Cubasis, their music production app available for both iOS and Android devices.  Make use of extended MIDI routing options to create inspiring tracks in a snap. Explore even more creative possibilities via advanced MIDI track-to-track routing options. Extended MIDI Routing ...

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Audio Modeling Pushes the Future of Digital Music Making with Physical Modeling

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Why Physical Modeling Instruments are so expressive  With computers becoming more powerful everyday, digital musicians want more expressiveness, more realism, more flexibility in their virtual instruments. In fact, increased expressiveness and realism is a big part of what MIDI 2.0 is all about. MIDI Association member Audio Modeling...

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Roland SPD-SX MIDI Controller Applications

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Look at many modern drum setups, and you'll find an SPD-SX—but it can do a lot more than you might expect.  There's a reason why so many drum setups use Roland's SPD-SX. By combining a drum controller with sampling, the SPD-DX has allowed drummers to augment their performances with electronic production. The SPD-SX has transformed electronic d...

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MIDI Innovation Webinar May 29, 2021

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Innovation: AI, AR and Gamification in Music Apps   We hosted our final May Is MIDI Month 2021 webinar on May 29 with a focus on Innovation.   There were four presenters covering different aspects of innovation around Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Machine Learning and Gamification A3E Deep Dive™: AI ...

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KnittedKeyboard: A multi-modal, textile-based soft MIDI controller

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KnittedKeyboard is a recent project coming out from the Responsive Environments Group at the MIT Media Lab. This instrument provides new interactions and tactile experiences for musical expressions, and it can be easily worn, folded, rolled up, and packed in our luggage like a pair of socks or a scarf. The project was initi...

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Music China 2021 and the Chinese Musical Instrument Association launch new MIDI Initiatives

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This is a translation of an article on the Chinese Musical Instrument Association's website.  The original article is linked below. Music China is now scheduled for  January 14-17, 2022  Creating an interconnected space for music technology and leading the cross-border integration of the musical instrument industry  Under t...

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Expressive E Releases Imagine Synthesis Plugin

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MIDI Association Member Expressive E Releases Imagine-multidimensional acoustic tones Expressive E has taken a different approach to synthesis in their newest plugin-imagine.  Imagine offers hundreds of instrument layers, meticulously modeled to bring their very own character. Each preset combines two of these instrument layers to of...

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