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A DAW's MIDI Plug-Ins Can Provide Solutions to Common Problems In a world obsessed with audio plug-ins, MIDI plug-ins may not seem sexy—but with MIDI's continued vitality, they remain very useful problem solvers. For an introduction to MIDI plug-ins, please check out the article Why MIDI Effects Are Totally Cool: The Basics. Although processing MID...

Available in  tabletop and keyboard versions, IK's follow up to the original UNO adds a lot of new capabilities The new IK Multimedia Uno Pro lineup has two versions- the Synth Pro features a 37-note Fatar keyboard and pitch/mod wheels while the Synth Pro Desktop version has capacitance-sensing keys and pitch/mod touchstrips.  B...

To celebrate the last day of May is MIDI Month, we are happy to announce 3 major product updates. Florian Bomers (Founder of Bome Software) New BomeBox Firmware 1.5 As of today, Bome Software has released version 1.5 of the BomeBox firmware. It is a free download for BomeBox owners and adds a number of new features: new MIDI processi...

This just came in at the last minute tonight and we thought we would get it out to everyone.  You will see some really cool Augmented Reality and AI from another company that will be an exclusive here later in the month, but we thought this announcement from Artiphon was worth a quick post.  "We've been designing AR Music techno...

Ableton 11 adds MPE support  The MPE specification was adopted by The MIDI Association at the 2018 Winter NAMM show.   MPE is designed for MIDI Devices that allow the performer to vary the pitch and timbre of individual notes while playing polyphonically. In many of these MIDI Devices, pitch is expressed by l...