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We’ll be traveling the globe in the next few months promoting MIDI 2.0

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Network MIDI 2.0 (UDP) Overview

User Datagram Protocol for Universal MIDI Packets (aka Network MIDI 2.0) defines a standard way to connect MIDI devices (MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 protocol) via Ethernet and wireless LAN. […]

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Tadao Kikumoto (菊本忠男) and Happy Accidents

Before we go into the details of Kikumoto-san’s career and his personal description of how both the TR-808 (the drum machine that has defined the sound of HipHop) and MIDI […]

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CES 2025 Booth 8578 LVCC, North Hall

We have received our CES Allied Association Booth for 2025 and want to invite everyone to come see us at Booth 8578 of Las Vegas Convention Center in the North […]

Digital Pianos, MIDI 2.0 Resources for Developers, MIDI Association Event List, MIDI News, NAMM, The MIDI Association Special Interest Groups

The MIDI Association At NAMM 2025

MIDI Association NAMM Booth Events Thursday, January 23 MIDI Association Lifetime Achievement Awards 2025 Thursday, January 23 11:00 AM-11:45 AM 45 minutes (America/Los_Angeles) MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A) In-Person […]

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Audio Developers Conference 2024

Tickets to ADC24 Tickets to ADC24 are available for both in person and virtual attendance and range in price with discounts for Academics and Students. Click the button below to […]

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Tokyo Gakki Expo 2024

We said we would be traveling the globe and promoting MIDI 2.0 around the world. Our friends from the Japan Programmers Association and Association of Musical Electronics Industry (AMEI) recently […]

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We inspire innovation

What

WE Do

We are an all-volunteer, nonprofit trade association whose mission is to make it easier for everyone to create music and art digitally. We nurture a global community of creative people who share a passion for music, art and innovation.

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MIDI Stories

Interactive Audio for Games

The Interactive Audio SIG

Composer Steven Horowitz is the chair of the Interactive Audio (Game Audio) Special Interest Group of The MIDI Association and the executive director of Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) program at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Horowitz comes to SFCM after 23 years as Audio Director at Nickelodeon.

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Creating a free MIDI Curriculum

MIDI IN Music Education

Lee Whitmore, Focusrite’s VP of Education has been passionate about music education his whole life. From his tenure at Berklee to his leadership at the Grammy Music Education Coalition and now chairing our Music Education Special Interest group working with SAE Latin America to create a Creative Commons curriculum for MIDI.

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