MIDI and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is a hot topics these days and The MIDI Association has put together a number of articles about the subject.
MIDI Association member Roland and Universal Music Group have also started the AIFORMUSIC website.
The Principles for Music Creation with AI establish a guideline for the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in music. By adopting these principles, companies and organizations commit to protecting the vital contributions of human creativity and to the responsible development and application of artificial intelligence for music creation.
The MIDI Association and many of our members are listed as supporters.
Here are the core Principles for Music Creation with AI.
We believe music is central to humanity. Enjoying and creating music is integral to our health, well-being, and happiness. Music provides a human connection to each other and the world around us and is deeply personal.
We believe humanity and music are inseparable, and music with true meaning cannot exist without the direct creative contributions of people.
From acoustic to electronic instruments, we believe that technology has long supported human artistic expression, and applied sustainably, AI will amplify human creativity.
We believe that human-created works must be respected and protected, and they uniquely merit copyright protections. The use of copyrighted works – and use of the music artists’ name/image/likeness/voice by others – must be authorized in advance of the use and music artists should be given recognition for their contribution.
We believe transparency is essential to responsible and trustworthy use of AI. In order to establish and maintain trust across all stakeholders, from fans to artists, AI-powered creative platforms and policies must prioritize record keeping and disclosure while shining a light on those who create.
We believe the perspectives of music artists, songwriters, and other creators must be sought after and respected as AI-powered creative experiences are imagined, strategized, planned, and implemented.
We are proud to help bring music to life. Together, through the musical instruments we produce, the artists and songwriters we represent, and the music education programs we support, we inspire and enable creativity.
MIDI.Org Articles on MIDI and Artificial Intelligence
Jordan Rudess and MIT’s jam_bot: A New Era of Human-AI Musical Collaboration
As We May Think
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Mostafa ‘Neo’ Mohsenvand
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Lemonaide: The World’s First Fairly Trained AI MIDI Plugin
Lemonaide is a state of the art AI Company that creates MIDI and audio plugins that generate inspirational ideas (such as melodies and chord progressions in any key). They are partnered with BeatStars, an online marketplace for electronic music producers and beat makers, where they sell access to their Generative AI MIDI models. In 2024,…
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Ethics of AI MIDI
The ethics of AI music became a heated topic at industry panels in 2024, sparking debates around the notion of “fair use”. AI music tech companies have admitted to training their models on copyright protected music, without a license or consent from rights holders in the RIAA. Over ten thousand major figures from the industry,…
Music Tectonics features MIDI Association companies at Creators Fair
PR firm Rock Paper Scissors, Inc. explores the new terrain at the epicenter of music and technology through their PR and marketing services as well as the Music Tectonics Conference, podcast, online events, and in-person meetups. Everything Music Tectonics does explores the seismic shifts that shake up music and technology the way the earth’s tectonic plates cause quakes…
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The MIDI Forum at Music China 2024
With the help of Geoffery Ge from Medeli and Yitian Zhao from CME Pro, Music China arranged for a MIDI Forum with experts from all over the world. The setup was actually quite amazing. There was a very nice AV setup, but most impressive was the simultaneous translation. When MIDI Association members were speaking English,…
Designing AI VSTs for Generative Audio Workstations
DAW plugins have been approaching a saturation point over the past decade. Reskinned VSTs seem to outnumber innovative music software by a margin of ten to one. How many new delay and reverb effect plugins do we need? Generative AI and machine learning models are bringing a wave of novelty into the music software ecosystem. But there’s a problem; most of these applications lack the plugin UI that we’ve grown accustomed to. These new models are built, summarized…
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Microsoft Adds MIDI 2.0, Researches AI Text-to-MIDI in 2023
The MIDI Association has enjoyed an ongoing partnership with Microsoft, collaborating to ensure that MIDI software and hardware play nicely with the Windows operating system. All of the major operating systems companies are represented equally in the MIDI Association, and participate in standards development, best practices, and more to help ensure the user experience is…
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Turning MIDI Melodies Into Full Songs with Meta’s MusicGen
The popularity of generative AI software has reached an all time high this year, with music lagging behind other mediums like image and text. Nevertheless, two applications dropped in May and June 2023 that marked a major improvement in the technology. It probably comes as no surprise that the companies behind these apps are Google…
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The Evolution of MIDI Software and Hardware in 2023
The MIDI association hosted a live roundtable discussion last week, featuring 2022 MIDI Award winners Krishna Chetan (Pitch Innovations), Henrik Langer (Instrument of Things), Markus Ruh (MusiKraken), and John Dingley (Digigurdy). Amongst the winning products you’ll find the Somi-1 MIDI controller, a motion-sensor wearable that converts users’ body movements into MIDI data. MusiKraken’s MIDI controller…
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MIDI Association Member Newzik Goes Beyond Sheet Music
Newzik is a Paris based MIDI Association member that has a unique approach to notation. They offer a range of notation products that focus on classical orchestral scores and are used by a number of world renown orchestras and ensembles. One of the most interesting parts of Muzik’s technology is their AI driven OMR technology. Newzik’s AI-driven Optical Music…
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AudioCipher V3: The Word-to-MIDI Melody and Chord Progression Generator
MIDI Association partner AudioCipher Technologies has just published Version 3.0 of their melody and chord progression generator plugin. Type in a word or phrase and AudioCipher will automatically generate MIDI files for any virtual instrument in your DAW. AudioCipher helps you overcome creative block with the first ever text-to-MIDI VST for music producers.Chord generator plugins…
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3 Best AI Music Generators for MIDI Creation
A new generation of AI MIDI software has emerged over the past 5 years. Google, OpenAI, and Spotify have each published a free MIDI application powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence.The MIDI Association reported on innovations in this space previously. Google’s AI Duet, their Music Transformer, and Massive Technology’s AR Pianist all rely on MIDI to function…
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MIDI used to complete Beethoven’s 10th symphony
MIDI Association contributor Walter Werzowa was featured on CNN today (Dec 26, 2021) One of the best things about the MIDI Association is the great people we get to meet and associate with. After all they don’t call it an association for nothing. This year during May Is MIDI Month, we were putting together a panel on MIDI and music…
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AR Pianist combines MIDI and AI to create virtual piano performances in your home
Massive Technologies releases major update to AR Pianist with new MIDI and Audio features Massive Technologies (MT) newest AR Pianist update shows the unique power of combining MIDI Data with AI and VR technologies and is an incredibly engaging combination of new technologies. They gave The MIDI Association the inside scoop on their new update to AR Pianist. One of the major new features is the ability to import…
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Google’s Music Transformer- State of the Art in Music AI?
Google has been doing amazing work in music AI and recently they posted demos created by their Music Transformer. The goal was to generate longer pieces of music that had more coherence because the model was using relative attention. We found that by using relative attention, which explicitly modulates attention based on how far apart two…
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Google Magenta-Making Music with MIDI and Machine Learning
In January 2018, we covered Intel’s Keynote pre-show which prominently featured Artificial Intelligence and MIDI. But one of the leaders in the AI and Machine Learning field is Google. Their Magenta project has been doing a lot of research and experimentation in using machine learning for both art and music. The great thing about Google is that they share…
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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 on the web. You can even connect your MIDI keyboard or other controllers to input notes via Web MIDI. When you’re finished you can save your Song Maker groove,…
MIDI and Music AI
Google’s Duet AI (with Web MIDI) Google Creative Lab recently released A.I. Duet, an interactive AI Music experiment that lets you use your laptop keyboard or a MIDI keyboard (using Chrome’s Web MIDI feature) to make music and experiment with artificial intelligence . Duet was built by Yotam Mann and the Magenta and Creative Lab teams at Google using Tensorflow, Tone.js, and open-source…