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Innovation meets Education

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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.

MIDI Innovation Award Webinar

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Saturday, May 11 at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern and 5 pm GMT, The MIDI Association will host a MIDI Innovation Award webinar.

Super Booth 2024 webinar

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Join us from Super Booth 2024 to see the latest MIDI products and innovations

Music Accessibility Webinar

The MIDI Association Youtube Channel

We are working to make music accessible to everyone. 

MIDI Innovation Award Show 2024

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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.

Synthfest UK

Come and see Keyboards - Desktop Synths - Modular - Software Synths and much more.

£17.59

AES 2024

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center 429 11th Avenue, New York\, New York City, NY, United States

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.

Music China 2024

Music China Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) 丨2345 Long Yang Road,, Shanghai, China

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.

GameSound Con

GameSoundCon Burbank Convention Center, Burbank, CA, United States

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!

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, 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 and Robkoo 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 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.

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.

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.