The MIDI Association will present John Bowen, Karl Hirano, Tadao Kikumoto, 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 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. 

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 Special Interest Group on Music Accessibility allows artists, researchers, and other practitioners in the music creation and production community to interact directly with MIDI Association companies and provide a forum for discussion surrounding the topics related to music accessibility and MIDI.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

The MIDI Association has made significant progress this year in developing some Profiles focused on electronic drums and drum machines. 

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.