The MIDI Association At NAMM 2025
MIDI Association NAMM Booth Events Thursday, January 23
MIDI Association Lifetime Achievement Awards 2025
Thursday, January 23 11:00 AM-11:45 AM 45 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
The MIDI Association will present John Bowen, Karl Hirano, Tadao Kikumoto, Tetsuo Nishimoto, Chris Meyer, Jeff Rona and Brian Vincik with MIDI Association Lifetime Achievement awards for their contributions to MIDI from 1983 to 1990.
MIDI 2.0 Network (UDP) Transport Specification
Thursday, January 23 1:00 PM- 1:30 PM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
The Network MIDI 2.0 (UDP) Transport Specification defines a way to connect home studios or performance venues via Ethernet and wireless LAN on a local area network using MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 UMP packets.
TamiX interviews Innovative Chinese MIDI Companies
Thursday, January 23 3:30 PM- 4:00 PM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
Tang Nan (artist name TamiX) who runs Midifan, the largest Music Production website in China will interview Hotone, Medeli, MIDI Plus and Robkoo about the latest developments in MIDI technology in China.
The Music Accessibility Special Interest Group
Thursday, January 23 4:30 PM- 5:15 PM 45 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
The Special Interest Group on Music Accessibility allows artists, researchers, and others in the music production community to interact directly with MIDI Association companies and provides a forum for discussions surrounding music accessibility and MIDI.
Riverside City College MIDI Jam
Thursday, January 23 5:30 PM- 6:00 PM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
Come see what this group of talented young music production students have been inspired to create with MIDI. Special thanks to Artiphon, Caedence, Jamstik, Playtime Engineering, Robkoo and others for their donations to the all-MIDI jam.
MIDI Association NAMM Booth Events Friday, January 24
Latest MIDI 2.0 Developments in Apple, Google, Linux and Microsoft Operating Systems
Friday, January 24 10:30 AM- 11:00 AM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
The MIDI Association and its members will provide updates on the latest developments in the major operating systems. If you are a developer of MIDI products, this is a presentation you won’t want to miss.
DAW Control Profile-Replacing Mackie control
Friday, January 24 11:30 AM- 12:00 PM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
With MIDI 2.0 support already beginning to appear in Digital Audio Workstations, plugin developers are benefitting from the work being done by the MIDI Association member companies that develop those plugin formats – Apple (Audio Units), Avid (AAX), Bitwig (CLAP) and Steinberg (VST). The DAW Working Group is working on a DAW Control Profile which would supersede proprietary control protocols like Mackie Control and Logic control with a true industry standard for controlling DAWs via external hardware and software.
Plugin Formats Open Source Support for MIDI 2.0
Friday, January 24 1:30 PM- 2:00 PM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
The MIDI Association member companies that develop plugin formats – Apple (Audio Units), Avid (AAX), Bitwig (CLAP) and Steinberg (VST) are working together to develop open-source software that will enable plugin developers to quickly and easily interface with external MIDI gear without the need for any in depth knowledge of MIDI 2.0 or MIDI-CI.
Build Your Own Audio and MIDI Plug-ins Using JUCE
Friday, January 24 1:00 PM- 1:30 PM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
Senior JUCE developer Anthony Nicholls will show you how you can use JUCE to create your own, unique, audio and MIDI plug-ins that you can make available to other people.
MIDI 2.0 Piano Profile Progress Report
Friday, January 24 2:30 PM- 3:00 PM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
At NAMM 2024, we showed off a working prototype of the MIDI 2.0 Piano Profile.
This year we focused on two other important parts of the Piano Profile- DAW Plugin support and implementation guidelines with accompanying Audio and MIDI files.
MIDI 2.0 Drum Profiles
Friday, January 24 3:30 PM- 4:00 PM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
The MIDI Association has made significant progress this year in developing some Profiles focused on electronic drums and drum machines.
MIDI In Music Education and SAE Mexico
Friday, January 24 4:30 PM- 5:00 PM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
SAE Mexico has been selected to begin work on The MIDI Association’s MIDI In Music Education curriculum by the NAMM Foundation.
They will provide the curriculum materials in both English and Spanish under a Creative Common license and have a unique relationship with Coursera, the massive open online course provider.
Digitaize – Transforming strings with the power of MIDI
Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States
Digitaize takes a completely new approach to augmenting acoustic instruments. This innovative technology uses a unique sensor system to acquire real-time playing data from musical instruments. In this demonstration, the Digitaize Module uses software instruments from Spectrasonics, Moog, and Audio Modeling, a hardware from CME and Roland to showcase its versatility.
MIDI Association NAMM Booth Events Saturday, January 25
MIDI Association Open Meeting
Saturday, January 25 10:00 AM- 10:45 AM 45 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
Please join us as we introduce the new MIDI Association Executive and Technical Standards Boards, review the previous year’s progress and take a look at what we want to accomplish in 2025.
MIDI Innovation Awards 2024
Saturday, January 25 11:00 AM- 11:30 AM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
Join Jean Baptiste Thibeaut from Music Hackspace and Martin Keary (host of the 2024 MIDI Innovation Awards Show) as they introduce the winners of the 2024 MIDI Innovation Awards.
Innovators Meetup with Rock Paper Scissors
Saturday, January 25 11:30 am – 12:15 pm AM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
Meet all the musical instrument, software and app innovators at NAMM! Everyone gets the mic in this networking session. Give your 30-second introduction, connect faces to names around the room, then break to network one on one. Leave with connections to collaborators, customers, allies, and friends.
Riverside City College MIDI Jam II
Saturday, January 25 4:30 PM- 5:00 PM 30 minutes (America/Los_Angeles)
MIDI Association Booth 10302 (Hall A)
In-Person Only
Come see what this group of talented young music production students have been inspired to create with MIDI.
Special thanks to Artiphon, Caedence, Jamstik, Playtime Engineering, Robkoo and others for their donations to the all-MIDI jam.