MIDI
Connections
MIDI started out on a 5 PIN DIN plug, but is now available on many different transports including USB, BLE, Ethernet, and Web MIDI. There are many different types of MIDI conenctions and these articles explain and explore them all.
Building a USB MIDI 2.0 Device – Part 3
This is the third part in this series on how developers go about building a USB MIDI 2.0 Device. Please read Part 1 and Part 2 before reading Part 3. […]
CME introduces hybrid MIDI Thru box with built-in Bluetooth MIDI
CME Pro, the small-scale innovator and contributing board member of the MIDI Association, is pleased to announce the world’s first hybrid MIDI-thru-box with premium Bluetooth MIDI. Following the successful launch […]
LASER Mammoth puts SysEx storage in your browser
They thought it was abandoned long ago and never would return. They were wrong. The ancient knowledge of the MIDI elders silently faded away and left them clueless and unprepared. […]
Zenbeats Free Offer for iOS & Android and 1.2 Update
In early April, Roland began offering the full unlocked version of Zenbeats for iOS and Android for free for the time being through the #rolandathome initiative. The giveaway garnered attention […]
LEARN THE PIANO WITH YAMAHA AND FLOWKEY
The best new way to learn piano. Learning with flowkey is easy and fun. Practice notes and chords interactively and receive instant feedback. The idea behind flowkey is simple: “learn […]
Jammy EVO, a next-gen stringed MIDI controller, on Kickstarter now
On its mission of creating the right MIDI device for those who feel more comfortable with 6 strings than with 25 keys, Jammy Instruments is launching a compact stringed MIDI […]
CME Introduces WIDI: New milestone in Bluetooth MIDI
Introducing WIDI MasterCME has been the wireless MIDI expert since 2005. Our WIDI (Wireless MIDI) technology already serves thousands of professional musicians worldwide. After CME launched the Xkey Air (2015) and […]
Reclouder-Hardware, Mobile App and Cloud Service
Reclouder- personal hybrid recorder MMA member CME based in Singapore was at Music China in October, 2019 and their new concept called Reclouder received an award as “Most Innovative Newcomer”. Reclouder is a […]
PlantWave uses wireless Bluetooth MIDI to let plants sing
Data Garden, the people behind MIDISprout release new kickstarter campaign Data Garden was started by Joe Patitucci and Alex Tyson in 2011 to explore the connection between plants, music and technology. In 2012, Data Garden was […]
GenkI Instruments Wave Ring is Now Shipping
Genki Instruments announced that they were shipping Wave, the ring that lets you control sound with motion. With three easy-to-use buttons, Wave allows musicians to easily change sounds, parameters and effects using gestures. Since being funded on […]
The Cloud Piano by David Bowen
What does the weather sound like? David Bowen is an artist who uses data. He has used data to point an installation of 50 twigs in unison towards the largest piece of space […]
ROLI BLOCKS-Modular Wireless MIDI Touch System
BLOCKS is a modular music making system made up of 5 components Seaboard Block Super Powered Keyboard Multi-award-winning Seaboard interface 5D Touch technology 24 keywave, two-octave playing surface Hundreds of free sounds […]
IK Multimedia iRig Keys I/O
MIDI Controller/Audio Interface for mobile musician The iRIg Keys I/O comes in two version a a 25-key MIDI controller version and a 49-key MIDI controller version. Both feature built-in audio interfaces with 24-bit/96kHz sound quality, […]
IK Multimedia iRig BlueBoard
Bluetooth LE MIDI Pedalboard for controlling iOS and Mac apps The IK Multimedia Blue Board uses the new BTLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) MIDI specification so you can control your music apps […]
Roland Brings Wireless MIDI to Digital Wind Instruments!
As one of the inventors the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, Roland has continued to push the boundaries of the now 36-year old protocol(!) by continuously developing MIDI-based applications which bring […]
Yamaha Soundmondo-Social Sound Sharing using Web MIDI
What is Social Sound Sharing? Yamaha originally launched the Soundmondo website and mobile app in 2015 for the reface line of keyboards. It was one of the first major website to utilize Web […]
MIDIWrist turns your Apple Watch (and soon Siri) into a MIDI Controller
Geert Bevins’ watch app lets you wear your MIDI controller on your wrist Geert Bevin (who was one of the main people who developed MIDI Polyphonic Expression) recently released MIDIWrist. MIDIWrist […]
Telemidi – Creating music over The Internet in real-time
What is Telemidi? A system of connecting two DAW environments over the internet, to achieve real-time musical `jamming’.The product of Masters research by Matt Bray. “…a musician’s behaviour at one location will […]
Google Releases Song Maker with Web MIDI
Google Creative Lab, Use All Five, and Yotam Mann launched a new browser-based music sequencer called Song Maker. It’s a classic grid style sequencer and allows anyone to easily create simple grooves […]
Creating a MIDI Collaboration App using Express.js & Socket.io
Want to make music with your friends on Internet. This tutorial from Andrew Bales will show you how to build an app that allows you to collaborate with friends to make music in real-time! […]
Bluetooth MIDI is here to stay
This is an article that was originally posted on the Cakewalk blog and they kindly gave us permission to excerpt it here on MIDI.org and link to the full article. […]
A Web Developer’s Tale of the Octapad Revival
Two months ago, I was tasked with presenting a talk on the Web MIDI API to an amazing crowd of music-loving web developers. Obviously, I wanted the presentation to be exciting, […]
[Updated] How to Make Your Own 3.5mm mini stereo TRS-to-MIDI 5 pin DIN cables
Editors note: This article was written before the MMA published an official standard for using TRS adapters with MIDI devices, and simply describes the TRS connectors that exist in the market. Future […]
Keith McMillen combines Leap Motion and Web MIDI
Keith McMillen Instruments shared this short demo of gestural mixing, using their K-Mix programmable mixer, a Leap Motion controller and Web MIDI. MIDI Gestural control really seems to be taking off […]
Serial, Parallel, and Joystick Ports
Serial, Parallel, and Joystick Ports Before USB and FireWire, personal computers were all generally equipped with serial, parallel, and (possibly) joystick ports, all of which have been used for connecting […]
Basics of USB-MIDI
USB MIDI 2.0 ADOPTED MIDI 2.0 Progress Continues with Updated USB Specification – As computers have become central components in many MIDI systems, USB has become the most widely […]
RTP-MIDI or MIDI over Networks
RTP-MIDI (IETF RFC 6295) is a specification for sending/receiving standard “MIDI 1.0” messages using standard networking protocols (“Real Time Protocol” and “Internet Protocol”). RTP-MIDI includes a data recovery mechanism (MIDI […]
About Web MIDI
The Web MIDI API connects your MIDI gear directly to your browser. Your browser connects you to the rest of the world. MIDI hardware support has been available for a long […]
Google Web Audio/MIDI Hackathon at Music China 2015
A special Web Audio/MIDI Hackathon was organized for web developers by Google at the Google Shanghai office. More than 70 developers from across China, from as far as Beijing and […]