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Music Accessibility Webinar
2024-05-25 10:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
The Music Accessibility webinar will be Saturday, May 25 at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern and 5 pm GMT here –https://midiable.com/MIA
We will have members of the Music Accessibility Special Interest Group including Jay Pocknell from SoundwithoutSight.org along with many others.

Super Booth 2024 webinar
2024-05-18 10:00 - 10:30 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
Week 3 of May is MIDI Month, we will be in Berlin at the Native Instruments offices having meetings of the DAW working group which is looking the details of how DAWs will handle MIDI 2.0 and then do a live webinar from Super Booth on Saturday, May 18 at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern and 5 pm GMT also on https://midiable.com/MIA.

MIDI Innovation Award Webinar
2024-05-11 10:00 - 10:30 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
This Saturday, May 11 at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern and 5 pm GMT, The MIDI Association will host a MIDI Innovation Award webinar at https://midiable.com/MIA, (the MIDI Innovation Award’s webinar channel URL) where Jean Baptiste Thiebaut from Music Hackspace and the winners of the 2023 MIDI Innovation Awards (Audio Modeling, Intuitive Instrument. Hitar, Next and Sound Sculpture) will discuss a variety of topics.

How did participating in Music China 2023 and NAMM 2024 help their business grow.
What their favorite experiences at Music China and NAMM were.
How insights did they gain from participating in The MIDI Innovation awards
Why they would recommend that people and companies enter the 2024 MIDI Innovation Awards

Participants who join the webinar will be able to interact directly with the panelists and ask questions.We are also announcing that we are extending the deadline for submissions to the 2024 MIDI Innovation Awards from May 18 to June 18.
Registration for the MIDI Innovation Awards 2024 will close on 18th June 2024, and a public vote will begin on June, 30 2024.

Innovation meets Education
2024-05-04 10:00 - 10:30 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
Our goal is ensuring that every professional or aspiring musician, producer, artist and manufacturer has free access to our comprehensive suite of educational MIDI content.
This curriculum, designed to bridge cultures and languages, will be accessible in both English and Spanish. It’s tailored not just for an academic audience across secondary schools, colleges, universities, and professional institutes, but also for the dedicated staff of manufacturers and resellers, marking a significant stride towards a global standard in music technology and digital arts education.

30th Annual IASIG Town Hall
2024-03-21 12:45 - 13:45 | Game Developers Conference, 747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
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.
Want to improve game audio workflow or the professional audio tools available to you?
Join fellow game audio educators, sound designers, composers, audio programmers, and other audio professionals at the Interactive Audio Special Interest Group (IASIG) Town Hall.
The IASIG works as a Special Interest Group in both The MIDI Association and the International Game Developers Association representing Game Audio Developers in those organizations.
Steve Horowitz (Audio Director, IASIG/Game Audio Institute)
Tom Poole (Director, JUCE / Audio Developers Conference)
Dave Berol (Audio / Voice Director, Surfaceink Product Design & Development)
Austin Smith (Content Manager, Sound Designer & Composer, Game Audio Institute/Blackwater Soundworks)
Pat Scandalis (CEO/CTO , moForte Inc, MIDI Association MPE WG Chair)
Location: Room 3002, West Hall
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass – Get your pass now!

Collective Creativity in Game Design & Music
2024-03-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Game Developers Conference, 747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Games and sound go together like macaroni and cheese. Sound is a large part of what makes games fun. So, what are some of the hot button issues that game designers need to know about the process of creating game sound — and what do audio folks need to know about game design and production? Good questions!
This roundtable brings together composers, sound designers, game designers, animators, programmers, producers, and anyone else involved in the production process. Organizers open up the floor and discuss the latest and greatest trends in games, as well as the most common production roadblocks. Let’s come together to develop a deeper understanding of process and pipeline.

Cooperative Design Roundtable: Collective Creativity in Game Design & Music (Presented by the IGDA)
Steve Horowitz (Audio Director, IASIG/GAI)
Location: Room 211, South Hall
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Game Developers Conference
2024-03-18 08:00 - 2024-03-22 17:00 | Game Developers Conference, 747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
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.
Game devs and industry experts who attend GDC 2024 can expect the return of many activities and events that make the Game Developers Conference the place to be for game developers. Attendees can attend a comprehensive selection of lectures, panels, and roundtable discussions, tour the GDC Expo to check out companies’ latest products and solutions, and head to the GDC Play area to try the newest indie sensations before they come out.
In addition, the Independent Games Festival and the Game Developers Choice Awards will take place live on Wednesday, March 20—with a simultaneous broadcast in the event app and on the GDC Twitch channel.

MIDI Accordion with Cory Pesaturo NAMM 2024
2024-03-10 14:00 - 15:00 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
Cory Pesaturo (“C Pez”) is revolutionizing the Accordion. The only person to ever win the trio of World Championships on Acoustic, Digital & Jazz Accordion
Join us on YouTube for Cory’s performance at Winter NAMM 2024.

SMF2 NAMM 2024
2024-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
Members of the SMF2 Working Group discussed their progress at the Winter NAMM Show 2024. The MIDI Clip file has already been adopted. Many messages things that used to be meta events now have been put into the UMP protocol so chords, lyrics, song and copyright information can now be sent “over the wire”.

The MIDI Clip File Specification defines a file format for MIDI sequences using the Universal MIDI Packet data format. MIDI 2.0 introduced the Universal MIDI Packet, a data format which supports all the original MIDI 1.0 Protocol messages as well as all MIDI 2.0 Protocol messages. The MIDI Clip File serves a role which is similar to the version 1 Standard MIDI File Type 0, with all data in a single sequence of Universal MIDI Packet messages.
This MIDI Clip File Specification will have a complementary specification, the MIDI Container File specification which will be similar to the version 1 Standard MIDI File Type 1.
The MIDI Container File will support the Universal MIDI Packet data format by containing one or more MIDI Clip Files, arranged in one or more tracks. It may also include notation, audio and video data.
This specification could impact any company that publishes digital data.
Join us on Youtube for the SMF2 Discussions at Winter NAMM 2024

Music Tectonics Innovation Meet Up NAMM 2024
2024-03-10 11:30 - 12:00 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
The Guthman Musical Instrument competition, The MIDI Innovation Awards and Music Tectonics joined forces to host an Innovation Meetup at Winter NAMM 2024. If you are interested in the latest music technology innovation, it’s an event you won’t want to miss!
Join us on Youtube for the Music Tectonics Innovation Meet Up at NAMM 2024.

Jordan Rudess Interview NAMM 2024
2024-03-09 15:00 - 16:00 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
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.
This year, we interviewed Jordan and he performed a new composition specifically written for the 2024 NAMM show.
Join us on YouTube for Jordan’s appearance at The MIDI Association booth at the 2024 Winter NAMM show.

Orchestral Articulation Profile NAMM 2024
2024-03-09 14:00 - 15:00 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
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.
Join us on Youtube for The Orchestral Articulation Profile at NAMM 2024.

The MIDI Innovation Awards NAMM 2024
2024-03-09 13:00 - 14:00 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
Jean Baptiste Thibeaut from MusicHackspace and Laura Escude (whose career highlights include designing shows for Kanye West and Jay Z) 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

They will also announce the schedule and plans for The MIDI Innovation Awards 2024.
Join us on Youtube for The MIDI Innovation Awards at Winter NAMM 2024.

Piano Profile Demo NAMM 2024
2024-03-09 11:00 - 12:00 | The MIDI Association Youtube Channel
Join us on Youtube for the Piano Profile Demo at NAMM 2024 featuring Roland Artist Scott Tibbs.

At the April 2023 NAMM show, Synthogy and Roland collaborated to showcase the first public demonstration MIDI 2.0 technology.
At the 2024 NAMM show they raised the bar again and showcased 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 performed.
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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.
