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Designing AI VSTs for Generative Audio Workstations
Ezra Sandzer-Bell
MIDI News
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 no...
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The MIDI Association at Music China 2023
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Music China and The MIDI Association continue to work closely together  It may seem counter-intuitive, but the global pandemic actually brought Music China and The MIDI Association closer together. Because in-person events were impossible over the last few years, we worked together to connect the MIDIable online video ...
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MIDI Innovation Awards Livestream Sept, 16, 2023
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
The MIDI Association is proud to announce this year's MIDI Innovation Awards live stream event taking place on 16 September 2023 at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern and 5 pm GMT. Now in their third year, the awards are a joint initiative created by Music Hackspace, The MIDI Association, and NAMM, created to showcase both products and projects using MIDI...
Building a USB MIDI 2.0 Device - Part 2
Andrew Mee
MIDI News
By Andrew Mee in collaboration with the OS API Working Group. This is the second part of a series demonstrating how a developer may go about building a USB MIDI 2.0 device. You should read Part 1 before this Part 2. Part 1 is here: https://www.midi.org/midi-articles/building-a-usb-midi-2-0-device-part-1 In the last part we created a simple set of U...
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Announcing the finalists in the 2023 MIDI Innovation Awards
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
On September 16 at 10 am Pacific, a Youtube livestream will showcase the entries of the 15 finalists of the MIDI Innovation Awards, and select the 5 category winners chosen by the jury.Tune in to discover some of the most exciting music technology products of the moment, and inventors quizzed by an all-star jury composed of Roger Linn, Nina Richard...
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Happy 808 Day 2023
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
People all over the web are celebrating 808 Day We found a few favorites from MIDI Association members and friends we wanted to share with everyone.   The cover image above is from Jeff Rona who worked for Roland when the 808 first came out and was the very first President of the MIDI Association.   The YouTube video i...
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Microsoft Adds MIDI 2.0, Researches AI Text-to-MIDI in 2023
Ezra Sandzer-Bell
MIDI News
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...
Building a USB MIDI 2.0 Device - Part 1
Andrew Mee
MIDI Hardware
By Andrew Mee in collaboration with the OS API Working Group USB MIDI 2.0 was released by the USB-IF in June 2020, with Apple adding support within CoreMIDI in October 2021 and Google added support in Android in August 2022. At the time of writing, Microsoft has announced upcoming support for MIDI 2.0 and now on a public Github, and also patches ha...
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The MIDI@40 Exhibit at NAMM
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad is featuring a special exhibit dedicated to MIDI The MIDI Association, Dr. Jonathan Piper and Moldover worked together to create a special exhibition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of MIDI. There were many people who contribute to this amazing project.  MIDI, or Musical Instrument D...
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Turning MIDI Melodies Into Full Songs with Meta's MusicGen
Ezra Sandzer-Bell
MIDI News
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 and Facebook-Met...
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Detailed timeline of MIDI 2.0 developments since January, 2020
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
The core specifications for MIDI 2.0 were adopted by the AMEI and The MIDI Association in January of 2020. Since that time the MIDI Association and its members have been developing tools and prototyping the first MIDI 2.0 products. As a result of our prototyping, we have improved and enhanced the specifications.  ...
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What Musicians & Artists need to know about MIDI 2.0
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
This article is to explain the benefits of MIDI 2.0 to people who use MIDI.  If you are a MIDI developer looking for the technical details about MIDI 2.0, go to this article updated to reflect the major updates published to the core MIDI 2.0 specs in June 2023.  MIDI 2.0 Overview Back in 1983, musical instrument companies that c...
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Music Accessibility Standard Special Interest Group Youtube event
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Music Accessibility Standard Special Interest Group kicks off with a Youtube Live Stream Members of the Music Accessibility Standard Special Interest Group (MAS SIG) outlined their vision for the future of Music Accessibility in a Youtube Live event on the MIDI Association Youtube channel.  Musicians and producers who face accessibility c...
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New Windows MIDI services Spring 2023 update
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Check out Pete Brown's post on the Microsoft Dev blog for important updates on MIDI 2.0  Pete is not just the designated representative to the MIDI Association for Microsoft, he is also the current chair of our Executive Board and an incredible evangelist for MIDI and particularly for MIDI 2.0.  Here are some of the topics ...
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The Evolution of MIDI Software and Hardware in 2023
Ezra Sandzer-Bell
MIDI News
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...
MIDI In China
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
MIDI has grown in importance in China as Chinese companies expand in both domestic and overseas markets The MIDI Association is tasked with promoting and managing MIDI specification for MIDI in every country in the world except Japan where the Association Of Music Electronics Industry (AMEI) is responsible for MIDI.  Thanks to the le...
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MIDI Innovation Awards 2022 Winners Webinar
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Check out these in depth interviews with the winners of the 2022 MIDI Innovation Awards The MIDI Association invited the winners of the 2022 MIDI Innovation Awards to join this round table on May 20, 20323 to discuss the evolution of their award winning products, discuss how they work with MIDI and share their thoughts on MIDI 2.0.&n...
MIDI In Music Education Webinar- Saturday, May 13
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Hosted by MIDI In Music Education Working Group Chair, Lee Whitmore, VP of Education for Focusrite, the webinar featured virtual tours of several MIDI In Music Education institutions including Belmont University, Columbia University, Full Sail University and Riverside City College. The MIDI In Music Education Special Interest Group (SIG) formed in ...
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MIDI@40 Concert World Premiere
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
May 6 at 10 am Pacific on Youtube The world broadcast premiere is scheduled for Saturday. May 6 at 10 am Pacific. Click on the Youtube link below to watch the trailer and signup for a notification. The MIDI@40 Concert on the Yamaha Grand Plaza stage on Saturday, April 15 2023 celebrated the incredible possibilities created by MIDI (Musical Ins...
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MIDI Association Lifetime Achievement Awards at April NAMM 2023
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
At the April NAMM show, The MIDI Association honored the people who created the modern music production environment of synths, drum machines, and sequencers, including Bob Moog, Don Buchla, Ikutaro Kakehashi, Tsutomu Katoh, Roger Linn, Tom Oberheim, Alan Pearlman, Dave Rossum, and Dave Smith.  A significant portion of The MIDI Association boot...
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HipHop@50 Events at April NAMM 2023
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
At the 2022 June NAMM show, MIDI Association Executive Board member Lawrence Levine and President Athan Billias were invited to sit at the Broadjam table by MIDI Association supporter Roy Elkins. Roy's Broadjam team is experts in running different kinds of  voting for events.  They handle the voting for the TEC Aw...
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MIDI@40 and Hip-Hop@50 Anniversary Celebrations Await at The 2023 NAMM
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
The 2023 NAMM Show will celebrate two of history's most impactful musical innovations: the 40th anniversary of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) with MIDI@40 and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, with Hip-Hop@50. Each day of the show, which takes place April 13–15, in Anaheim, California, will offer the intertwined stor...
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MIDI is about collaboration, not competition
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
All kinds of companies, all kinds of devices One of the things that has always made MIDI unique in the world of standards is that no one owns MIDI and the MIDI Associations (AMEI in Japan and The MIDI Association in the rest of the world) don't sell anything.  We (AMEI and The MIDI Association) get companies to volunteer their s...
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Tsutomu Katoh and Korg
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Early History KORG's founder, Tsutomu Katoh was born in Nagoya on August 28, 1926 (Taisho 15) to a merchant family that ran a livestock feed wholesale business along the Iida Highway. These were tough times in Japan. The Great Kanto Earthquake had hit the capital city of Tokyo directly in 1923, leaving 140,000 people dead and missing. The impact of...