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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
We had a great NAMM show in 2016. The MMA booth was really busy with constant demos by Quicco, Bome and Kagura from Shikumi Designs. All of the Tec Track panels we hosted were well attended. The Executive Roundtable: Keyboards and Virtual Instruments — with Craig Anderton, Jordan Rudess, Mi...
If you had a minute to tell us what MIDI means to you, what would you say? At the Winter NAMM show 2016, we wanted to capture what people felt about MIDI. Thanks to Lawrence and Mick Levine we were able to capture people's instant reaction to the question- What does MIDI mean to you? It is amazing how articulate and passionate...
