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...
MIDI Association member Bitwig announced Studio 4.1 with an emphasis on new ways to create and process notes What if notes did more than trigger your sounds? As musical signals that dance and curve, notes just do more in Bitwig Studio, both on the timeline and in performance. Version 4.1 is here, adding eight new note effects. So with 20+ FX ...
MIDI Association corporate member Spectrasonics has introduced a new brand and new experiences for Omnisphere. Omnisphere has been a huge part of many producer's and musician's sonic arsenal for years since it was introduced in 2009. Now Spectrasonics has developed a brand new way of interfacing with Omnisphere call Sonic...
MIDI 2.0 Universal MIDI Packet (UMP) The Universal MIDI Packet (UMP) is a fundamental aspect of MIDI 2.0, which allows programs to negotiate and communicate with MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 products. Florian Bomers joins us again to lead 3 workshops across November and December to explore this in detail. Florian runs his own company...
MIDI Association Member Nektar Releases IMPACT LX MINI Nektar has introduced the Impact LX Mini, a new mobile USB MIDI Controller Keyboard that offers 2 independent Arpeggiator/Repeat engines, LED drum pads, a joystick, foot-switch socket and a 25-note mini-keyboard with velocity. Impact LX Mini makes the power of Nektar's Impact LX range...
MIDI Association Member Apple Releases Logic Pro 10.7 Apple released Logic Pro 10.7 with spatial audio as the star, but there are also a lot of other new features. New in Logic Pro 10.7 New features and enhancements Mixer now supports spatial audio tools for Dolby Atmos:Expanded pan controls.13 plug-ins expanded for 7.1.2 chan...
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...
MIDI Association Member Antares Audio Technology releases vocoder modeling technology Antares new release integrates the sound of vintage vocoders with their renown Autotune technology. Of course, MIDI control is integral using a vocoder. This advanced vocoder plug-in includes models of all the classic vocoders you know...
