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  • MIDI Lifetime Achievement Awards 2025

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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.

  • Network MIDI 2.0 (UDP) Transport Specification

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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. 

  • The Latest Developments in MIDI 2.0

    NAMM Tec Tracks Hilton California Ballroom B

    The MIDI Association will provide updates on the latest MIDI 2.0 products from Apple Logic, Korg, Native Instruments, Roland, Steinberg and Yamaha, and many more.

    The session will be moderated by Brian Hardgroove, record producer, bassist, drummer and member of the legendary band Public Enemy and feature a performance by Jordan Rudess, keyboardist and composer for Dream Theater.

  • TamiX Interviews Innovative Chinese MIDI Companies

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    Tang Nan (artist name TamiX) who runs Midifan, the largest Music Production website in China will interview Hotone, Medeli, MIDI Plus, Robkoo and Synido about the latest developments in MIDI technology in China.

  • The Music Accessibility Special Interest Group

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    The MASSIG group, including MIDI Association members like Amnote, Arcana Instruments, Audio Modeling, BetterMaker, Roland, and many more along with Jay Pocknell from The Royal Institute for The Blind and accessibility-focused music technologists like Sam Prouse, has been working for over a year to develop MIDI technologies that improve accessibility

  • Riverside City College MIDI Jam

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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.

  • Latest MIDI 2.0 Developments in Apple, Google, Linux and Microsoft Operating Systems

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    The MIDI Association and its members will provide updates on the latest developments in the major computer operating systems.

    If you are a developer of MIDI products, this is a presentation you won’t want to to miss.

  • DAW Control Profile-Replacing Mackie Control 

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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. 

  • Build Your Own Audio and MIDI Plug-ins Using JUCE

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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.

  • Plugin Formats Open Source Support for MIDI 2.0

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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. 

  • MIDI 2.0 Piano Profile Progress Report

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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 Open Meeting

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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 Winners 2024

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    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.

  • How MIDI Is Driving Global Content Creation and Collaboration

    Hilton Anaheim; 4th Floor, Hilton Huntington Room

    Join this special A3E and MIDI Association session for an in-depth, tactical exploration of how they are leading a global collaboration among musicians from diverse cultures, united by the universal language of music, and presented by world-class musicians.

  • Digital Accordion Jam

    Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, United States

    Join Sergey Antonovich, the engineer who designed two groundbreaking instruments recognized as MIDI Innovation Awards 2024 finalists – the Partymaker: Accordion Synthesizer and the Digital Flex Accordion – and Vladimir Butusov, a professional accordionist who has dedicated his career to popularizing the accordion and is a finalist of the prestigious V-Accordion Festival, for an electrifying live demo.

    Experience the world's most portable full-featured electronic accordion, along with a hybrid acoustic-electronic accordion (and watch out for a very special guest from last year)

  • Interactive Audio SIG Networking Meet Up At GDC

    Moscone Center 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join members of Interactive Audio SIG Steering Committee, network with other Game Audio professionals and help us shape the future of Game Audio.

  • IASIG/IGDA Roundtable Talk

    Moscone Center 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Calling all composers, sound designers, game designers, narrative designers, animators, programmers, producers, and anyone else involved with game production and design.

  • IASIG/IGDA Party at Game Developers Conference

    Game Developers Conference 747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    IGDA is hosting a party at Game Developers Conference 2025 and The MIDI Association and IASIG are participating. 

    The event will be at the Children’s Creativity Museum, 221 Fourth Street right next to GDC.  

    The event is open to IGDA members.

  • IASIG/IGDA Town Hall

    Moscone Center 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Want to improve game audio workflow or the professional audio tools available to you? Join fellow game audio educators, sound designers, composers, audio programmers, and other audio professionals at the Interactive Audio Special Interest Group (IASIG) Town Hall.

  • Super Booth 2025

    Super Booth The Fez, Berlin, Germany

    The MIDI Association is pleased to announce that they will have be at Booth O243 at Super Booth 2025. Come learn about the latest developments in MIDI 2.0.

  • Make Music Day 2025

    #MakeMusicWithMIDI on June 21 Make Music Day

    June 21 is both the longest day of the year and International Make Music Day.

    We are asking everyone to help us create a worldwide day of celebration of making music with MIDI by:

    * Creating some music with MIDI

    * Uploading it to your social media channels with the hashtag -#MakeMusicWithMIDI

    Be creative and share your passion for making music with MIDI to the whole world!