Exquis by Intuitive Instruments
2024-01-25 11:30 - 12:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
Composing expressive music has never been that easy

A controller, an app, an instrument

The Exquis controller gives you immediate access to the rules of harmony to improvise with or without theoretical prerequisites, and offers you dimensions of expressiveness that you can quickly master.
The Exquis app, in symbiosis with the keyboard, offers a unique workflow allowing you to create an entire song in a few minutes: choose sounds, record loops, play the conductor and structure your songs in complete spontaneity!

The new MPE Profile Specification
2024-01-25 13:00 - 13:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
MPE is the bridge between MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0. The new MIDI 2.0 Profile uses bi-directional communication to define exactly what MPE features are supported for an enhanced user experience.
The MIDI-CI Profile for MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) specification makes it possible for artists to perform independent gestures for each musical note, with up to three dimensions of expression. With MPE, every note a musician plays can be articulated individually for much greater expressiveness.
MPE has broad support from many DAWs, Synthesizers and Controllers.
The MIDI-CI Profile for MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) specification defines an MMA/AMEI Recommended Practice for hardware and software manufacturers to communicate multidimensional control data between MIDI controller instruments, synthesizers, digital audio workstations, and other products, using MIDI messages.
The specification describes a recommended way of using individual MIDI Channels to achieve per-note control, enabling richer communication between increasingly expressive MIDI hardware and software.

MIDI In Music Education
2024-01-25 14:00 - 14:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
The MIDI In Music Education Special Interest Group is led by Dr. Lee Whitmore, Focusrite Group ‘s Vice President for Education, Americas.

Whitmore’s career most recently includes six years in Boston, Massachusetts, as Berklee’s Vice President for education outreach and social entrepreneurship, and then as the inaugural executive director for the Grammy Music Education Coalition.
He joins Focusrite Group with more than 30 years of product, sales, marketing and leadership experience, including time at Avid and Sibelius, and Korg USA.
He is joined every two weeks in the MIME special interest group by a wide variety of educators and industry veterans including Jennifer Amaya from Riverside Community College, Chandler Bridges from Indiana University, Seth Cluett, from Columbia University, Paul Lerhman from Tufts University, Keith Mason from Belmont University, Issac de la Mora from SAE Mexico, Brian Smithers from Full Sail University, Michael Strickland from Florida State and many more.

Robkoo Presents the R1 Wind Instrument
2024-01-25 15:00 - 15:30 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
The Wind Synthesizer R1 is a new form of wind instrument created by Robkoo.
With its intuitive design, audio technology, and realistic sounds, R1 makes performing music easier than ever.

With sounds sampled from top performers around the globe, R1 saves 10 or even 20 years of practice to achieve the vibe of a pro.
Food grade mouthpiece- Same material as baby pacifier for utmost health protection. Multiple mouthpiece styles available.
Touch-sensing performance keys-Perform by touching the keys. Fast response, minimal noise, and maximum durability.
Independent semitone keys -Resemble the keys on an acoustic instrument. Play expressively in a realistic and graceful way.
Patch switch- Switch tones in a flash. Multiple functions assignable without interfering the play.
Triple octave keys- Break away from the limitation of acoustic instruments. Travel across wide octaves in light speed.
Mechanical pitch wheel-Reliable and intuitive. Pitch bend with your thumb. It is also customizable to trigger other controls like portamento.
High-accuracy gyroscope-Trigger performance techniques by simply shaking and waving. Pull up and down for vibrato, another articulation, and pitch bend.
Responsive RGB lights- The cyber style RGB light patterns display over 60,000 colors. The lights also respond to your breath and technique, adding a visual element to your play.
Learn in 15 minutes A dedicate interactive course guides you through all the basics in 15 minutes. Keep practicing for 2 weeks, you will be ready to perform.

Audio Modeling Presents Camelot Pro and SWAM
2024-01-25 16:00 - 16:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
Audio Modeling SWAM Instruments
Embark on a new creative journey with SWAM technology and our expressive virtual instruments. Combine that with the power of Camelot Pro, and you’ll rediscover the joy of making music.
Add these innovative tools to your arsenal, and experience a fresh approach to music production and performance that awaits you.
Audio Modeling Camelot Pro
Camelot Pro is an application created to address the most complex live performance needs with a simple and guided workflow.
Camelot is a Setlist Manager, a Software Instrument & FX Host, a PDF Music Score reader, a Multitrack Audio Player, and the most advanced Audio/MIDI Patchbay and Router.

Embodme Presents French Artist Delaurentis
2024-01-25 17:00 - 17:30 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
DeLaurentis is one of the few rare electronic music producers and artists who manage to convey pure emotion by using machines to manipulate the voice.
Her electro-cinematic music is both soft and powerful, clear and obscure: relentlessly effective and bewitching.

Microsoft New MIDI 2.0 Open Source Driver and API
2024-01-26 10:30 - 11:15 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
This project is the next-generation MIDI API for Windows, including MIDI 1.0, MIDI CI, and MIDI 2.0. It includes enhancements, a new USB class driver, new transports, and a suite of essential tools. The project adds many enhancements and bug fixes to our MIDI 1.0 support, and importantly adds support for the latest revisions to MIDI CI and MIDI 2.0 as approved by The MIDI Association.

The open source USB MIDI 2.0 driver has been generously donated by AMEI, the Association of Musical Electronics Industry, and developed by AmeNote ™️ in partnership with Microsoft. Please see the file headers for any additional copyright notices. A huge thank you to AMEI and its member companies for making this happen!

This is an official Microsoft project. Although Microsoft is an active member of the MIDI Association, and Pete Brown is the chair of the MIDI Association Executive Board, and other contributors are on standards boards, this project is not affiliated with the MIDI Association other than as a consumer of and contributor to the standards. Affiliation with AMEI is disclosed above.

Apple New MIDI 2.0 Driver and API
2024-01-26 11:30 - 12:00 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
Torrey Walker from Apple will give an in depth look at the new Apple updates for MIDI.

New Network Transport Specification
2024-01-26 13:00 - 13:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
Members of the Network Transport WG will explain and demo working prototypes of the new network Transport
This specification defines the mechanisms and the message format for exchanging Universal MIDI Packet messages via a local area network. This enables the transport of MIDI 1.0 Protocol and MIDI 2.0 Protocol. This also defines discovery of available Network MIDI devices and Hosts, and management of Network MIDI Sessions.
Some examples of use-cases in this specification may include:

The vast majority of people who use MIDI have some type of home studio with a computer and multiple MIDI devices connected together. They record audio and MIDI using Digital Audio Workstation software.
Most live performance venues and performances combine both networked multi-channel digital audio and a variety of MIDI instruments and controllers.
Commercial facilities that include broadcast studios, recording studios, and universities with networked electronic music/piano labs.

This specification defines a way to connect those home studios or those performance venues via Ethernet and WiFi on a local area MIDI network.
As of early 2024, the only available transport for MIDI 2.0 UMP is the USB Device Class Definition for MIDI Devices v2.0. An Ethernet network has some advantages over USB:

A USB cable length is generally limited to about 3 meters (about 9 feet and 10 inches). Ethernet cables can transmit data up to 100 meters without any signal loss or degradation.
USB can create problems with grounding noise. Ethernet connections are electrically isolated while USB is not.
The connection topology can be changed in software without having to move physical cables.

Many transports for audio use Ethernet. Some of those are open standards (i.e. AES67) and some are proprietary (i.e., Dante by Audinate and Q-LAN by QSC).
Being able to run MIDI 2.0 as a control protocol over the same cables that run audio can greatly expand the use of MIDI 2.0. MIDI 2.0 expands outside the limitations of MIDI 1.0, now using 32 bit words, no bandwidth limitations, and room for thousands of new messages. For example, the high resolution of MIDI 2.0 makes it possible to directly specify and control frequency parameters from 20Hz to 96KHz (and above).
A MIDI 2.0 UDP transport specification has many benefits for both end users and companies that make MIDI and audio products.

Open Source Code for MIDI 2.0
2024-01-26 14:00 - 14:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
MIDI 2.0 Workbench
The MIDI 2.0 Workbench is a free tool to help developers develop, debug (and deploy) MIDI 2.0 Applications and Devices. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. The Workbench connects to your device or software, to test various MIDI 2.0 implementation features against official specifications. The MIDI 2.0 Workbench is the only automated tool that generates the MIDI 2.0 Compliance Checklist required to license the MIDI 2.0 Logo from the MIDI Association. The MIDI 2.0 Workbench is currently available as source code for you to compile. We will release binaries shortly.
AmeNote ProtoZOA and USB MIDI 2.0 Device
The AmeNote ProtoZOA hardware platform is a flexible prototyping tool for MIDI 2.0 and is the standard testing device chosen by and funded in part by the MIDI Association. Open source firmware provides MIDI 2.0 interfaces and functions for developers to use in their own hardware and software products. ProtoZOA provides a USB MIDI 2.0 Class Compliant Device on a Raspberry Pico, designed specifically to jump-start prototyping and validation of Universal MIDI Packet (UMP) functions and fuel the MIDI 2.0 revolution. ProtoZOA integrates closely with the MIDI 2.0 Workbench.
Tiny USB MIDI 2.0 Device
This is a Tiny USB Device driver for USB MIDI 1.0 and USB MIDI 2.0 as a unified device. Allows implementor to create hardware MIDI devices which are fully compliant with USB Device Class specifications. Includes the fallback mechanism from 2.0 to 1.0 as defined in USB MIDI 2.0.
USB MIDI 2.0 Descriptor Builder
This is tool for easily creating valid descriptors for USB MIDI 2.0 Devices, which are so easy to get wrong. Fill in properties in a form to generate an output of the necessary descriptors. Supports the tusb_ump library, a USB Device used in the ProtoZOA, and the Linux MIDI2 Gadget Driver.
ni-midi2
The library provides the basic functionality of UMP 1.1 and MIDI-CI 1.2 by providing base classes for all UMP 1.1 packet types, (Universal) System Exclusive messages and MIDI-CI messages. There are concrete types for controllers, velocity and pitch, plus type aliases for common message field types. Mathematical operators allow to do integer / fixed point math on pitches and controllers, type constructors allow initialization with values of different resolution. Conrete instances of packets or messages are created using factory functions. Incoming packets and messages are inspected using data views. The library is completed by a number of helper functionalities dealing with conversion from / to MIDI 1 byte stream data format, collecting sysex messages and more.
AM_MIDI2.0Lib
This is a general purposes Library for building MIDI 2.0 Devices and Applications. This library is targeted to work on everything from Arduinos through to large scale applications. It provides foundational building blocks, processing, and translations needed for most MIDI 2.0 Devices and Applications.
*Note: This MIDI2 Developer Collaboration is not a project of the The MIDI Association, but was founded by key participants in the development of MIDI 2.0, working as members of the MIDI Association. The MIDI 2.0 Logo is a registered trademark of the MIDI Association, used under license. The M2 Logo is a trademark of the MIDI2 Developer Collaboration at MIDI2.dev.

The Future Of Music Accessibility
2024-01-26 15:00 - 15:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
MIDI Association members from Audio Modeling, Arturia, Native Instruments, and The Royal Institute for the Blind will discuss the Music Accessibility Special Interest group and their work to make music accessible to everyone

Ellis Hall- The Ambassador Of Soul
2024-01-26 16:00 - 16:30 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
“When people ask me about my blindness, I tell them, ‘I didn’t pay the electric bill on time… So they cut the lights out on me!'” – Ellis Hall
Through the ages, there have been a number of famous blind African American male entertainers in Gospel, Blues, Soul and Pop but few as unilaterally gifted as Ellis Hall. What other man can claim to have written 3,800 songs, sung at the funeral of Helen Keller at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York and before Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, Africa, been a member of Oakland Soul band Tower of Power and a lead voice for the animated California Raisins, been nominated for a Ovation Theater Award for his very first stage role in “The Gospel At Colonus” (in which he sang, acted, and walked the stage and stair props mostly unattended), and penned the official song of the city where he grew up: Claxton, Georgia. Welcome to the unprecedented greatness of Ellis Hall.
When it comes to music, Ellis Hall does it all. He is a seasoned and accomplished vocalist in possession of a powerful 5-octave range. He is a songwriter, arranger, producer and educator that teaches clinics in which he records all the parts of a song in 45 minutes. Ellis’ first instrument was drums before he went on to master piano, keyboards, guitar and – his favorites – upright and electric bass. Across a career of 40-plus years and counting, Ellis Hall has proven himself as an all-around performer that has entertained audiences on five continents, sharing stages with giants ranging from James Taylor, Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle and Toby Keith to Herbie Hancock, George Benson, Bobby Womack, George Duke and Sheila E. His reputation of excellence earned Ellis the moniker, “The Ambassador of Soul.”

Casio's Music Tapestry
2024-01-26 17:00 - 17:30 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
Music Tapestry is a technology that creates pictures out of musical performances.
The technology references musical elements such as pitches and touch to generate evolving imagery in real time, which ultimately forms a single still image when the performer stops playing. Using musical performance analytics based on music theory,
Music Tapestry parses the subtleties of piano performances for tonality, beat/rhythm, chord, and chord progression and immediately translates these into colors and shapes such as flowers and leaves that match the feel of the music. Fun-spirited playing yields bright, cheery results, while chic approaches produce artwork with an accordingly refined ambiance.
Since it is impossible to play the same piece in the same way twice, the result is different with every performance, never generating exactly the same artwork.

Roland A88mkII and Synthogy Ivory Piano Profile Demo
2024-01-27 10:30 - 11:15 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
At the April 2023 NAMM show, Synthogy and Roland collaborated to showcase the first public demonstration MIDI 2.0 technology.
This NAMM show they are raising the bar and showcasing a demonstration of the new Piano Profile.
This Profile will make creating performances on one piano and playing them back on another more accurate.
Roland Product Specialist Scott Tibbs will perform.
Scott has amassed a large body of music with numerous recording artists such as Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Howard Jones, Bruce Springsteen, Nelly, Lil’ Wayne, Jamie Fox, Robin Thicke, Bette Midler, Destiny’s Child, Jazmine Sullivan, Amerie, Jamie Foxx, Teddy Riley, Omar Hakim, Billy Cobham, and more.
Background
The piano is arguably the most important musical instrument in Western music traditions. It is essential to all styles of music from classical to jazz to pop, so when the MIDI Association started to develop Profiles, a Piano Profile was at the top of the list.
This piano Profile is focused on Acoustic Pianos with mechanical key mechanisms driven by MIDI, Digital Acoustic Piano Tone Generators (both hardware and software), and physical MIDI keyboards that send MIDI messages and the most common of all – Digital Pianos which incorporate both Digital Acoustic Piano Tone Generators and physical MIDI keyboard. The Profile does not address electro-mechanical pianos or the extended features of digital ensemble pianos.
Goals
The goal is a Piano Profile that defines the MIDI Messages and bi-directional MIDI-CI communication necessary to allow the performance of an acoustic piano piece on one device that supports the Piano Profile to be accurately rendered on any other device which also supports the Profile.
The Piano Profile defines the MIDI Messages and bi-directional MIDI-CI communication necessary to allow the performance of an acoustic piano piece on one device that supports the Piano Profile to be accurately rendered on any other device which also supports the Profile.
The Profile provides support for remote (over the internet) performance.
The Piano Profile details what information needs to be included in a Standard MIDI File (SMF2) and the mechanisms needed to accurately reproduce a piano performance from a file.
The Piano Profile addresses the following use cases:

Piano + tone generator (the most typical MIDI 1.0 use case)
Online live broadcasting of piano performances
Online lessons with a teacher and student
MIDI Streaming of recorded piano performances
Music production (use of the Piano Profile with DAWs)
SMF Online sales

The MIDI Innovation Awards
2024-01-27 11:30 - 12:15 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
Jean Baptiste Thibeaut from MusicHackspace will introduce the winners of the 2023 MIDI Innovation Awards including:

Intutitive Instrument-Exquis
Audio Modeling- Camelot Pro
Hitar- augmented guitar for percussive fingerstyle
Netz-an immersive mixed reality musical instrument
Sound Sculpture-an interactive musical instrument comprised of 25 location-aware cubes

He’ll also announce the schedule and plans for The MIDI Innovation Awards 2024.

The Orchestral Articulation Profile
2024-01-27 13:00 - 13:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
There are many orchestral sample libraries in the market, and they are essential for film scoring, game audio, studio, and live MIDI applications. These orchestral libraries have many kinds of articulations.
For example, a string library might have a different set of samples for every articulation including marcato, staccato, pizzicato, etc.
However, there is no industry standard method-the method for selecting these different articulations has been different for each developer. Many developers use notes at the lower end of the MIDI note range for “key switching”, but the actual keys used are different between different developers. Some developers use CC messages to switch between articulations, but again there is no industry wide consistency. Some plugin formats now have the ability for per note selection of articulations, but again the method for inputting that data is different for different applications.
It is the goal of the MIDI-CI Profile for Note On Orchestral Articulation to provide a consistent way to encode articulation information directly in the MIDI 2.0 Note On message, using the Attribute Type and Attribute Data fields.
In arriving at this Profile, a study was made of orchestral instrument families, choir, big band instruments, guitar, keyboard instruments, and various non-western instruments to evaluate the degree to which they share common performance attributes and sound production techniques. Notation symbols and performance indications were also considered to determine, for example, how successfully a violin note marked with a trill might result in a musically meaningful or analogous articulation when the part is copied to an instrument as far afield as timpani—all without the composer having to re-articulate the timpani part, at least initially.
The Profile provides a comprehensive yet concise system of articulation mapping that includes a wide palette of articulation types and supports articulation equivalence across eight instrument categories.
The Profile was designed to offer articulation equivalence — a system of articulation mapping that allows a passage articulated for one instrument to be copied to another track and playedplay back with an equivalent or analogous articulation, regardless of the target instrument type.
When implemented by sample library developers, the Profile will greatly aid composers in highly significant ways.
First, it will simplify the process of substituting or layering sounds from the same or different sample libraries; Second, it will allow composers to quickly audition and orchestrate unison passages by copying an articulated part to other tracks and hear them to play back with equivalent or analogous articulations.

The IASIG Special Interest Group for Game Audio
2024-01-27 14:00 - 14:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
The IASIG is an organization in partnership with the International Game Developer’s Association (IGDA) and MIDI Association (TMA) that brings together experts to share their knowledge and help improve the state of the art in audio for games, websites, VR content, and other interactive performances. Our members share tips and techniques, study trends, and create reports and recommendations that game developers, tool makers, and platform owners use to create better products.
The IASIG was born out of the Audio Town Meeting at the Computer Game Developers conference in April of 1994.

New MIDI 2.0 Products in the market
2024-01-27 15:00 - 15:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
In the last few months, a number of MIDI 2.0 capable products have been released into the market.
Here is an alphabetical list including the company name, product name, type of product and the MIDI 2.0 feature supported.

Company
Product Name
Product Type
MIDI 2.0 Features

Amenote
Protozoa
MIDI 2.0 Development Platform
USB MIDI 2.0 and MIDI 2.0 VCM, MIDI-CI, Property Exchange ProgramList, MIDI 2.0 VCM with Articulations

Apple
Logic
DAW
MIDI 2.0 CVM. Can be passed to AU plugins

BomeBox
Bome
Interface Box

KissBox
UMP2TR
Interface Box
Network UMP / Serial UMP gateway

KissBox
IO3CC / IO8CC
MIDI controller I/O system
Network UMP / CVM

Korg
Keystage
Controller
MIDI-CI, Property Exchange Via Manufacturer Specific Property Exchange, ChannelList

Korg
OPSix Native (v1.1.0)
Standalone App
MIDI-CI, Property Exchange Via Manufacturer Specific Property Exchange, ChannelList

Korg
Wavestate Native
Standalone App
MIDI-CI, Property Exchange Via Manufacturer Specific Property Exchange, ChannelList

MultitrackStudio
MultitrackStudio
DAW
USB MIDI 2.0 and MIDI 2.0 VCM, MIDI-CI, Property Exchange Program List, MIDI 2.0 VCM with Articulations

Native Instruments
Kontrol S-Series MK3
Controller
USB MIDI 1.0 VCM, MIDI-CI, Property Exchange ChannelList

PACE
JUCE
SDK
MIDI-CI

Roland
A88 MKII
Controller
High Resolution Velocity

Sound Magic
Supreme Drums Taiko
AU/VST Plugin
High Resolution Velocity

Steinberg
Cubase 13
DAW
Translates some MIDI 2.0 messages into VST3 format, Ready for MIDI 2.0
With support for high resolution velocity, CC, aftertouch, pitch bend, and poly pressure data, Cubase 13 is ready for the widespread adoption of MIDI 2.0.

Steinberg
Nuendo 13
DAW
MIDI 2.0 support, including high-resolution velocity, CC, aftertouch, pitch bend, and poly pressure data

Synthogy
Ivory
AU/VST Plugin
High Resolution Velocity

MIDI and Video
2024-01-27 16:00 - 16:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
4Cast, Entropy and Sons, Visibox and PTZOptics will discuss how MIDI can control video and PTZ cameras

Jordan Rudess Special Appearance
2024-01-27 17:00 - 17:30 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
At the MIDI@40 concert last April, Jordan performed a piece he had composed specifically to celebrate MIDI.
Jordan played a Korg Kronos and was accompanied by players from India who recorded their parts on video.
Those players included MAHESH RAGHVAN on Geoshred, MOHINI DEY on Bass, ELIJAH WOOD on Drums and B.C. MANJUNATH on Vocals and mridangam.
This performance really captured our vision for the MIDI@40 show.
The musicians, composers and performance artists selected as MIDI brand ambassadors represent the beautiful diversity of cultures and people from all over the world and music from different genres and generations brought together by music and MIDI.

Music Tectonics Innovation Meet Up
2024-01-28 11:30 - 12:45 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States

Standard MIDI File (SMF) 2
2024-01-28 13:00 - 13:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States

Special Performance On MIDI Accordion by Cory Pesaturo
2024-01-28 14:00 - 14:30 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
Cory Pesaturo (“C Pez”) is revolutionizing the Accordion. The only person to ever win the trio of World Championships on Acoustic, Digital & Jazz Accordion

The MPE Profile NAMM 2024
2024-03-07 13:00 - 13:40 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
MPE is the bridge between MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0. The new MIDI 2.0 Profile uses bi-directional communication to define exactly what MPE features are supported for an enhanced user experience.
The MIDI-CI Profile for MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) specification makes it possible for artists to perform independent gestures for each musical note, with up to three dimensions of expression. With MPE, every note a musician plays can be articulated individually for much greater expressiveness.
MPE has broad support from many DAWs, Synthesizers and Controllers.
The MIDI-CI Profile for MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) specification defines an MMA/AMEI Recommended Practice for hardware and software manufacturers to communicate multidimensional control data between MIDI controller instruments, synthesizers, digital audio workstations, and other products, using MIDI messages.
The specification describes a recommended way of using individual MIDI Channels to achieve per-note control, enabling richer communication between increasingly expressive MIDI hardware and software.
Join us viewing The MPE Profile NAMM 2024 with a performance by Jordan Rudess.

Audio Modeling Presents Camelot Pro and SWAM NAMM 2024
2024-03-07 16:00 - 16:40 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
Audio Modeling SWAM Instruments
Embark on a new creative journey with SWAM technology and our expressive virtual instruments. Combine that with the power of Camelot Pro, and you’ll rediscover the joy of making music.
Add these innovative tools to your arsenal, and experience a fresh approach to music production and performance that awaits you.
Audio Modeling Camelot Pro
Camelot Pro is an application created to address the most complex live performance needs with a simple and guided workflow.
Camelot is a Setlist Manager, a Software Instrument & FX Host, a PDF Music Score reader, a Multitrack Audio Player, and the most advanced Audio/MIDI Patchbay and Router.
Join us on YouTube as Audio Modeling Presents Camelot Pro and SWAM.

French Artist Delaurentis NAMM 2024
2024-03-07 17:00 - 17:30 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
MIDI Association member Embodme presents a performance by DeLaurentis, one of the few rare electronic music producers and artists who manage to convey pure emotion by using machines to manipulate the voice.
Her electro-cinematic music is both soft and powerful, clear and obscure: relentlessly effective and bewitching.
Join us for the YouTube Premier of DeLaurentis’ performance at Winter NAMM 2024.

Microsoft MIDI 2.0 Driver and API NAMM 2024
2024-03-08 10:30 - 11:15 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
Pete Brown from Microsoft gave a talk at Winter NAMM 2024.
This Microsoft project is the next-generation MIDI API for Windows, including MIDI 1.0, MIDI CI, and MIDI 2.0. It includes enhancements, a new USB class driver, new transports, and a suite of essential tools. The project adds many enhancements and bug fixes to our MIDI 1.0 support, and importantly adds support for the latest revisions to MIDI CI and MIDI 2.0 as approved by The MIDI Association.

The open source USB MIDI 2.0 driver has been generously donated by AMEI, the Association of Musical Electronics Industry, and developed by AmeNote ™️ in partnership with Microsoft. Please see the file headers for any additional copyright notices. A huge thank you to AMEI and its member companies for making this happen!

This is an official Microsoft project. Although Microsoft is an active member of the MIDI Association, and Pete Brown is the chair of the MIDI Association Executive Board, and other contributors are on standards boards, this project is not affiliated with the MIDI Association other than as a consumer of and contributor to the standards. Affiliation with AMEI is disclosed above.

Apple MIDI 2.0 Driver and API NAMM 2024
2024-03-08 11:30 - 12:00 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
Torrey Walker from Apple will give an in depth look at the new Apple updates for MIDI.
Join us on YouTube for Torrey Walker’s presentation at Winter NAMM 2024.

Open Source Code for MIDI 2.0 NAMM 2024
2024-03-08 14:00 - 14:40 | Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302, 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
MIDI 2.0 Workbench
The MIDI 2.0 Workbench is a free tool to help developers develop, debug (and deploy) MIDI 2.0 Applications and Devices. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. The Workbench connects to your device or software, to test various MIDI 2.0 implementation features against official specifications. The MIDI 2.0 Workbench is the only automated tool that generates the MIDI 2.0 Compliance Checklist required to license the MIDI 2.0 Logo from the MIDI Association. The MIDI 2.0 Workbench is currently available as source code for you to compile. We will release binaries shortly.
AmeNote ProtoZOA and USB MIDI 2.0 Device
The AmeNote ProtoZOA hardware platform is a flexible prototyping tool for MIDI 2.0 and is the standard testing device chosen by and funded in part by the MIDI Association. Open source firmware provides MIDI 2.0 interfaces and functions for developers to use in their own hardware and software products. ProtoZOA provides a USB MIDI 2.0 Class Compliant Device on a Raspberry Pico, designed specifically to jump-start prototyping and validation of Universal MIDI Packet (UMP) functions and fuel the MIDI 2.0 revolution. ProtoZOA integrates closely with the MIDI 2.0 Workbench.
Tiny USB MIDI 2.0 Device
This is a Tiny USB Device driver for USB MIDI 1.0 and USB MIDI 2.0 as a unified device. Allows implementor to create hardware MIDI devices which are fully compliant with USB Device Class specifications. Includes the fallback mechanism from 2.0 to 1.0 as defined in USB MIDI 2.0.
USB MIDI 2.0 Descriptor Builder
This is tool for easily creating valid descriptors for USB MIDI 2.0 Devices, which are so easy to get wrong. Fill in properties in a form to generate an output of the necessary descriptors. Supports the tusb_ump library, a USB Device used in the ProtoZOA, and the Linux MIDI2 Gadget Driver.
ni-midi2
The library provides the basic functionality of UMP 1.1 and MIDI-CI 1.2 by providing base classes for all UMP 1.1 packet types, (Universal) System Exclusive messages and MIDI-CI messages. There are concrete types for controllers, velocity and pitch, plus type aliases for common message field types. Mathematical operators allow to do integer / fixed point math on pitches and controllers, type constructors allow initialization with values of different resolution. Conrete instances of packets or messages are created using factory functions. Incoming packets and messages are inspected using data views. The library is completed by a number of helper functionalities dealing with conversion from / to MIDI 1 byte stream data format, collecting sysex messages and more.
AM_MIDI2.0Lib
This is a general purposes Library for building MIDI 2.0 Devices and Applications. This library is targeted to work on everything from Arduinos through to large scale applications. It provides foundational building blocks, processing, and translations needed for most MIDI 2.0 Devices and Applications.
*Note: This MIDI2 Developer Collaboration is not a project of the The MIDI Association, but was founded by key participants in the development of MIDI 2.0, working as members of the MIDI Association. The MIDI 2.0 Logo is a registered trademark of the MIDI Association, used under license. The M2 Logo is a trademark of the MIDI2 Developer Collaboration at MIDI2.dev.
Join us on Youtube for the Open Source Code for MIDI 2.0 At Winter NAMM 2024 panel discussion.

The Music Accessibility Standard NAMM 2024
2024-03-09 10:00 - 11:00 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
MIDI Association members from Audio Modeling and Sound Without Sight present the Music Accessibility Standard Special Interest Group and their work to make music accessible to everyone. Adapted from the ‘Future of Music Accessibility’ session at the NAMM Show 2024.
Link to sign up for the MASSIG: https://midi.activehosted.com/f/37
Link to Sound Without Sight: https://soundwithoutsight.org/
Video chapters:
00:00 Introduction by Athan Billias and Jay Pocknell.
03:03 Useful definitions.
04:14 Why is accessibility important?
05:37 Why design inclusively?
07:12 Inclusion in music-making: the current situation.
09:05 Breaking the loop: what we can do together.
09:48 Practical inclusive design tips from Tim Yates (Drake Music).
16:32 Which companies are already supporting accessibility?
17:37 What needs to happen next?
19:09 The MIDI Association’s Music Accessibility Standard.
25:13 Q&A with Emanuele Parravicini (Co-Founder, Audio Modeling).
43:26 Connect and sign up to MASSIG.
