What
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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 and the Visual Stage: The State of MIDI Control of Video and Graphics
MIDI was designed to contol notes between synthesziers in 1983. Four decades on, a sizeable slice of what it actually controls is light — video clips, camera feeds, shaders, LED strips, DMX fixtures, 3D worlds. We went back through every MIDI Innovation Award entry ever submitted, from the first year through the 2026 cycle, and […]
Jordan Rudess + jam_bot at MIT October 3
On Saturday, October 3, 2026, Jordan Rudess brings a project that MIDI.org readers have been following for two years to its biggest stage yet. At MIT’s Thomas Tull Concert Hall, Rudess will improvise live with jam_bot — an AI model trained on his own playing — alongside the MIT Chamber Chorus and guest student performers, […]
Music Accessibility SIG holds Assistive Text Session
MIDI has always been about connection. For more than four decades it has been the shared language that lets instruments, computers, controllers, and creative software understand one another. The MIDI Association’s Music Accessibility Standard Special Interest Group (MASSIG) is now asking whether that same language can do something new: let a musical instrument describe itself […]
MIDI Association and AMEI Release the Piano Profile and Implementation Guide
The MIDI Association and the Association of Musical Electronics Industry (AMEI) have released the MIDI-CI Profile for Piano (Document M2-126-UM, Version 1.0), together with its companion Implementation Guide (M2-126-IG). For the first time, the industry has a shared, formally specified agreement on how a piano performance should travel from one instrument to another — and arrive with its musical […]
