The 38th annual Game Developers Conference (GDC), taking place March 18-22 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, delivers the game industry's greatest source of content and connections—with innovative exhibitors, awe-inspiring technology, and powerful talks led by game developers who live and breathe this industry.
Since its inception in 1994, the IASIG has been driven by a selection of audio-focused volunteers with the goal of uniting the audio hardware and software industries with creators, researchers, and educators in order to push for the state-of-the-art for the industry.
We're proud to present a joint initiative between SAE Institute Mexico, part of Grupo Educativo Lehren, and the MIDI in Music Education Special Interest Group, part of the MIDI Association, aimed at revolutionizing music technology and digital arts education.
Saturday, May 11 at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern and 5 pm GMT, The MIDI Association will host a MIDI Innovation Award webinar.
Join us from Super Booth 2024 to see the latest MIDI products and innovations
We are working to make music accessible to everyone.
The 2024 MIDI Innovation Award Show is scheduled to be aired as on Youtube on September 21 at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern and 7 pm GMT.
Come and see Keyboards - Desktop Synths - Modular - Software Synths and much more.
The MIDI Association will be participating in AES 2024 which happens October 8-10 at the Jacob Javits Center In New York City. While a large group of MIDI Association members will be on planes headed to Shanghai for Music China, another group of MIDI Association members will head to the Big Apple to represent The MIDI Association at AES.
The MIDI Association booth will have areas for MIDI 2.0 products, MIDI Innovation Award products and explanations of our major initiatives- MIDI In Music Education, Interactive Game Audio, and Music Accessibility.
The MIDI Association and the Interactive Audio SIG will be at GameSoundCon and sharing a booth with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM). Steve Horowitz, IASIG chair is also the executive director of the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) program at SCFM.
If you are at GameSoundCon, please come by and say hi!
The MIDI Association will present John Bowen, Karl Hirano, 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.
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.
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 others in the music production community to interact directly with MIDI Association companies and provides a forum for discussions surrounding 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.
If you are a developer of MIDI products, this is a presentation you won’t want to to miss.
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.
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.
