2026 MIDI Innovation Awards Commercial Software
This category is for commercially available software that had over $250,000 in sales in the last fiscal year.
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MidiStickers Pro
MidiStickers simplifies learning classical and jazz theory through real-time interactive exercises and modular widget-based MIDI visualization and analysis tools designed for music educators and students.
DrumBot AI
DrumBot AI turns prompts, reference tracks, or vocal rhythms into editable MIDI drum parts, helping musicians create customizable grooves faster while preserving human creative flow.
Connect Through MIDI M4L Version
With ConnectThroughMIDI, anyone can make music together. Every note stays in key on any MIDI controller — ideal for classrooms, therapy and community music.
Musicalysis
Musicalysis transforms MIDI performance into real-time music theory, remote collaborative playing, music notation, and visual analysis, helping musicians understand, learn, compose, and analyze music together.
Synchrony Performance Encoder
Synchrony brings the power of MIDI alignment to your DAW for the first time, accelerating tempo mapping and enabling performance-to-performance encoding of dynamics and CCs.
MIDISplitter 1.5
MIDISplitter 1.5 helps musicians safely open, audition, split, merge, and export MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 files with transparent compatibility reporting and proof inside macOS.
Scale Navigator Dashboard
A new interface for harmony. Explore a network of connected scales and chords, capture what you find, and everything follows: plugins, instruments, performers.
ACE Studio 2
AI music studio includes expressive, human-like singing voices from MIDI and lyrics, AI instruments generate realistic singing vocals/instruments from MIDI, lyrics, word descriptions.
Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer
What if you could build instruments out of simulated physical masses and springs in 3D space, connect them, manipulate them, and just… hear what happens?
Eldoraudio Piano Audio to MIDI Converter
Piano audio to MIDI conversion done right. Upload an audio file, and we’ll transcribe the piano part into accurate, editable MIDI.
Eldoraudio Guitar Audio to MIDI Converter
Guitar audio to MIDI conversion done right. Upload an audio file, and we’ll transcribe the guitar part into accurate, editable MIDI.
MIDI Xplorer
MIDI Xplorer helps musicians discover, preview, analyze, transform, and perform MIDI ideas instantly, turning existing MIDI libraries into playable, scale-aware creative instruments.
Musirion
Musirion uses in-house AI to turn solo-piano audio and video into editable sheet music, MIDI, and MusicXML for musicians, teachers, arrangers, producers, and creators worldwide.
Masterpiece generator
Masterpiece Generator creates editable electronic grooves from deterministic seeds and drives instruments through MIDI notes, clock, probabilistic triggers, expressive CC automation on every step.
Vibe
An AI MIDI mapping assistant that lets musicians configure SHIK controllers in plain English, generating complete presets without manuals, CC tables, or guesswork.
Tritonet
Tritonet turns harmony into an automatable layer, freeing MIDI from fixed pitch — play, remap, and stretch chords, scales, and voice-leading elastically in real time.
Milli Vocal Trainer
Milli Vocal Trainer provides real-time ‘natural voice’ accurate pitch-corrected harmony vocals inside PG Music Band-In-A-Box
MIDI Agent
MIDI Agent brings AI models into DAWs to generate and transform MIDI melodies, chords, basslines, drums, and arrangements through natural-language collaboration workflows for music production.
Midi Command Studio
MIDI Command Studio transforms MIDI controllers into powerful Windows control surfaces, controlling applications, shortcuts, macros and audio while supporting hardware feedback on compatible devices.
Anything Piano
Anything Piano is the next generation of piano learning, empowering you to learn any song on piano
Transkr V4
Transkr V4 turns guitar, bass, voice and other instruments into MIDI and notation through polyphonic transcription, melody extraction, chord recognition and meter analysis.
PolySWAM
PolySWAM is a complete virtual instrument that plays full polyphony on monophonic SWAM physical-modeling sound engines, via its own embedded, real-time intelligent MIDI voice-allocation core.
seqMPEror 2
seqMPEror 2 turns MPE gestures into a playable instrument — sequencing, routing and mapping expression across any synth, controller or Push, standalone or inside Live.
Vibe Together
Vibe Together turns MIDI into a multiplayer 3D sandbox: build songs you can see, share what you made, and collaborate in real time with friends.
MIDISketch
A piano roll built for expression, where the note itself bends. Sketch, record, or sing MIDI straight in, for any controller and DAW.