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Camelot Pro Is More Than a VST Host, It’s a Musician’s Swiss Army Knife
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
What if you could control all your MIDI controllers, keyboards, and pedals all in one centralized application? What if this app didn't only allow you to control all your devices on stage but also provided you with a music score reader, a MIDI patchbay router, and a setlist manager? Camelot Pro is an application to make the lives of every stage musi...
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YamahaSynth Tech Talks- Behind the Synth with Nick Semrad and Matt Johnson
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
YamahaSynth Tech Talks on Tuesday, May 11 at 1:00 PM PST/10:00 PM GST Join Blake Angelos, Matt Johnson and special guest Nick Semrad from Jamiroquai  Tech Talk Season Two began with a livestream overview of using MONTAGE/MODX and YC. 
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MIDI 2.0 Developers Webinar- Saturday, May 22 10 am Pacific
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Join members of the  MIDI Association Technical Standards Board and MIDI 2.0 working group chairs for an in-depth look at all the MIDI 2.0 specifications under development As you can see from the table above, there is a lot of technical standards activity in The MIDI Association's working groups.The MIDI 2.0 Working Group h...
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Roland SPD-SX MIDI Controller Applications
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Look at many modern drum setups, and you'll find an SPD-SX—but it can do a lot more than you might expect.  There's a reason why so many drum setups use Roland's SPD-SX. By combining a drum controller with sampling, the SPD-DX has allowed drummers to augment their performances with electronic production. The SPD-SX has transformed electronic d...
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Getting started with MIDI 2.0 development – Live workshop series with the Music Hackspace
JB Thiebaut
MIDI News
This event is organised by the Music Hackspace. Date & Time: Mondays 7th / 14th / 21st / 28th June 6pm UK / 7pm Berlin / 10am LA / 1pm NYC. Series of 4 x 2-hour workshops. Level: Intermediate, Some experience with C++ coding required, Experience with JUCE recommended Attendees should have experience building and debugging applications usin...
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Audio Modeling Pushes the Future of Digital Music Making with Physical Modeling
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Why Physical Modeling Instruments are so expressive  With computers becoming more powerful everyday, digital musicians want more expressiveness, more realism, more flexibility in their virtual instruments. In fact, increased expressiveness and realism is a big part of what MIDI 2.0 is all about. MIDI Association member Audio Modeling...
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Steinway's newest high resolution player piano is focused on the future
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Steinway & Sons has a long history of technology innovation  Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg built his first grand piano in Germany in 1836.  He moved to New York, changed his last name to Steinway and established Steinway & Sons in 1853.  The company has always been focused on new technology and in its first 40 years in bus...
Details about MIDI 2.0, MIDI-CI, Profiles and Property Exchange (Updated June, 2023)
The MIDI Association
Developers
This article is for companies looking to develop MIDI 2.0 products, both software developers and hardware manufacturers. If you are a MIDI user looking for the benefits of MIDI 2.0, go to this article, which is a more general overview of MIDI 2.0 features.  What Musicians & Artists need to know about MIDI 2.0 This article is to explai...
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Steinberg Updates Cubasis 3 with tons of new MIDI features
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
 Steinberg released the latest update (3.3) to Cubasis, their music production app available for both iOS and Android devices.  Make use of extended MIDI routing options to create inspiring tracks in a snap. Explore even more creative possibilities via advanced MIDI track-to-track routing options. Extended MIDI Routing ...
The Healing Power of Music Webinar -MIMM 2021 Week 1
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Saturday May 8, 2021, May Is MIDI Month 2021 Webinar The Healing Power of Music The webinar kicked off with Michael Boddicker who has played synthesizer, vocoder, accordion and keyboards on albums by many notables such as Quincy Jones, Randy Newman, The Manhattan Transfer and The Bee Gees and worked on many soundtracks including...
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The Korg SQ64 Polyphonic Sequencer- Step up your Connectivity and Control
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Just like MIDI itself, the Korg SQ64 hardware sequencer focuses on connectivity and control  The SQ-64 is unique in its ability to drive MIDI and modular synths letting you create music with all your synth gear without the need for a computer, tablet or cellphone. It features four hardware based sequencer tra...
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MIDI Association Member Muse Group Acquires Audacity
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Within days of announcing their new group brand name, Muse Group (a music company focused on open source software) acquired Audacity.  Audacity will add to Muse Group's other brands that are all base open source standards.  Martin Keary who previously worked at MIDI Association member Microsoft talks about joining Audacity....
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Mixing with Virtual Instruments: The Basics
Craig Anderton
MIDI 1.0
DAW software, like Ableton Live, Logic, Pro Tools, Studio One, etc. isn't just about audio. Virtual instruments that are driven by MIDI data produce sounds in real time, in sync with the rest of your tracks. It's as if you had a keyboard player in your studio who played along with your tracks, and could play the same part, over and over again, with...
Bome Software Released 3 Major Product Updates
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
To celebrate the last day of May is MIDI Month, we are happy to announce 3 major product updates. Florian Bomers (Founder of Bome Software) New BomeBox Firmware 1.5 As of today, Bome Software has released version 1.5 of the BomeBox firmware. It is a free download for BomeBox owners and adds a number of new features: new MIDI processi...
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An introduction to Music Therapy by Dr. Deforia Lane
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
If you don't know anything about  music therapy, this 18 minute Tedx Talk Youtube video is a great way to understand how music and medicine work together to heal.  Music therapist, Dr. Deforia Lane takes you inside University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center to experience first hand the response of patients to music therapy:...
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May Is MIDI Month 2021-Helping Sick Kids Through The Healing Power of MIDI and Music
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Was May Is MIDI Month 2020 really only a year ago?  It seems that everyone has had a bit of trouble keeping time this year. Not musically as that is the one place where time remains constant.   But in talking to people , they often say that one moment last May seems like it was last week and the next it ...
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Sequential acquired by Focusrite
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Exciting news for one of MIDI's most important people  We're excited and pleased to add Sequential's instruments and pedigree to Focusrite Group's portfolio of world-class audio and music production tools,Dave Smith's history as an innovator speaks for itself. From his creation of the world's first fully programmable polysynth (the Prophet 5) ...
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Explore MIDI Effects in Live – free workshop 27th April
JB Thiebaut
MIDI News
This workshop is part of a series of monthly free live events about MIDI organised by the Music Hackspace  Date & Time: Tuesday 27th April 6pm UK / 7pm Berlin / 1pm NYC / 10am LA Level: Beginner Ableton Live offers a vast playground of musical opportunities to create musical compositions and productions. Live's native MIDI FX pro...
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Create with MPE in Live 11
JB Thiebaut
MIDI News
Date & Time: Tuesday 20th April 6pm UK Level: Beginner MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) offers a vast playground of musical opportunities to create musical compositions and productions. Live 11 supports a range of MPE tools to allow the composer and producer to create ideas in a myriad of ways. In this workshop you will creatively explore and d...
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ProxiMidi by Reuben Dax
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
MIDI Association Member Music Hackspace featured this very cool new product on their Youtube channel Discover the ProxiMIDI, the first MIDI controller made by Copper & Cedar. ProxiMIDI detects proximity motion and transforms it into MIDI data. It can be configured so that the hand gesture is interpreted as pitch controller, volume, or any other...
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AudioKit Synth One now offers a free book on synthesis
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
Francis Preve has created a companion guide for Synth One  Audiokitpro has is the source for a lot of very cool projects. In this article, we will highlight some of the those and then show you AudioPro's most recent offer - a free guide to synthesis from sound designer and author Francis Preve! AudioKit is a leading free &a...
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The MIDI Association at NAMM's Believe In Music Week 2021
The MIDI Association
MIDI News
NAMM is all virtual this year!  Every major event in the history of the MIDI Association has happened at Winter NAMM.  Whether it was the first introduction of MIDI at the 1983 NAMM to the adoption of MIDI 2.0 at the NAMM 2020, the NAMM (the National Association of Music Merchants has always been a part and a partner in our shar...
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Synth and Software's MIDI 2.0 interview
The MIDI Association
MIDI 2.0
Synth and Software's Nick Batzdorf interviews the MIDI Association about MIDI 2.0, Orchestral Articulations and more! Check out this interview with MIDI Association Exec Board member Athan BIllias as Nick Batzdorf from Synth and Software digs into details about MIDI 2.0.  
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Playtronica's Orbita Makes Making MIDI Music colorful and easy
The MIDI Association
MIDI Hardware
Playtronica makes playing with MIDI easy We have always been a big fan of Berlin-based Playtronica. They have done MIDI installations for Hermes and Issey Miyake.  Back on Labor Day 2020, we covered the Watermelon jam from MEZERG that used Playtronica to turn watermelons into MIDI controllers. Watermelons, Summer and MIDI from M...