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  • 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!

  • MIDI Innovation Awards 2025 at The Kakehashi Foundation

    The Kakehashi Foundation 3 Chome-14-3 Nishiwaseda,, Shinjuku, okyo, Japan

    Artware hub

    Founder Ikutaro Kakehashi established the new "Artware hub" with the aim of creating a "live space where people can experience live sounds created by electronic technology."

    This event will feature demonstrations of both MIDI 2.0 products,  a technical talk from AMEI and MIDI Association developers and demonstrations of the winner of the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards. 

    This event is not open to the public, but we will cover it in an article as soon as we return from Japan. 

  • GameSoundCon 2025

    Burbank Convention Center 2500 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA, United States

    GameSoundCon 2025 is hybrid!

  • Tokyo Musical Instrument Expo 2025

    Tokyo Science Museum 2-1 Kitanomaru Park, Tokyo, Chiyoda-ku,, Japan

    Tokyo Musical Instrument Expo, a comprehensive, customer-participation musical instrument experience event based on the concept of "See, Listen, Play, and Hit!

    The MIDI Association will have a booth featuring the latest in MIDI 2.0 developments and the winners of the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards, 

    ¥2000
  • Music Tectonics 2025

    Music innovators will unite again at Music Tectonics November 4-6 2025  in sunny Santa Monica, California. Join us for three days of connection, conversation, and getting business done, by the beach.  

  • Audio Developer Conference 2025

    The 10th anniversary of the Audio Developer Conference (ADC) returns back to Bristol UK in 2025.

    The in-person and online hybrid conference will take place 10-12 November 2025. 

    New for ADC25: The Audio Developer Conference is now a full 3-day conference. The first day (10 November) includes even more programmed talks and workshops available to all attendees.  

  • SF Music Expo 2025

    Join 750+ artists, songwriters, producers, musicians, DJs, and engineers at Music Expo 25, San Francisco’s premier music conference to create, connect, and grow their careers.