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.

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. 

JUCE is the most widely used framework for audio and MIDI application and plug-in development. It is an open source C++ codebase that can be used to create standalone software on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android, as well as VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, AAX and LV2 plug-ins.

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 connecting a Roland A-88MKII controller keyboard to Synthogy’s Ivory plugin via Apple Logic running in standalone mode. 

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. There were a number of compelling reasons for selecting SAE Mexico.

First, they will be able to provide the curriculum materials in both English and Spanish. 

Second, they have a unique relationship with Coursera, the for-profit U.S.-based massive open online course provider.

This year we would like to invite anyone interested in MIDI and MIDI 2.0 to join us as we will introduce the new Executive and Technical Standards Board, review the previous year’s progress and then take a look forward to what we want to accomplish in 2025. After some quick presentations, members of The MIDI Association will be available for questions from the press, developers  and  people who create music and art with MIDI.

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.

Come see what this group of talented young music production students have been inspired to create with MIDI.