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2025 MIDI Innovation Awards Accessible Entries
Here are the entries to the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards that focus on Music Accessibility.
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Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
_PhotoSYNTH #4D_
Radical Musical Superpowers in an instant! The holographic musical instrument designed for everyone.
Software Prototypes/Non-Commercial Products
* Sympathetic Synthesizer
Uses your facial expression to create chords. Smile for happy music, frown for sad music. Play a MIDI note and augment it with your mood.
Commercial Hardware Products
AE-30 Aerophone Pro
Roland’s world-class sounds in a high-performance wind instrument that responds to the dynamics and expression worthy of professional woodwind and brasswind players.
Software Prototypes/Non-Commercial Products
AirBending
AirBending transforms your hand gestures into MIDI messages using your Mac’s built-in camera. This allows you to play your instruments with greater expressiveness.
Software Prototypes/Non-Commercial Products
Arcana Remote Learning
Arcana Strum integrated in MIDIable to provide a revolutionary remote learning experience
Commercial Software Products
AudioCipher V4: MIDI Vault
MIDI Vault is the first MIDI + Audio file management plugin, bridging the gap between initial sparks of inspiration and later phases of song development.
Commercial Software Products
Big Ear
Empowering the next generation’s musical IQ by simplifying music learning and creativity. Solve musical puzzles on your mobile device from your MIDI instrument!
Commercial Hardware Products
Blipblox myTRACKS
The myTRACKS is a toy-like sequencer, sampler, and drum machine designed to bring the magic of music creation everyone.
Commercial Hardware Products
Clarii Pro
The flagship digital wind instrument with our most advanced DuoEngine™ synthesizers, highly expressive controls and robust built-in speakers.
Commercial Hardware Products
Cosmo
Cosmo transforms inclusive, multi-sensory switches into wireless MIDI controllers, enabling learners of all abilities to create, play, and perform music through interactive, accessible experiences.
Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
drumbeam
drumbeam is a revolutionary bar-shaped MIDI interface. It features fully customizable drumming zones with optical feedback and still fits into a regular backpack.
Software Prototypes/Non-Commercial Products
Flufs: An accessible real-time & offline loudness meter
Flufs is a real-time or offline Max for Live loudness meter, accessible to blind and visually impaired users with screen reader and braille display support.
Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
GEP Contraption
MIDI touchless instrument and controller for performances, education, and physical therapy.
Software Prototypes/Non-Commercial Products
MIDI voice control and feedback
A solution for making music production tools accessible
Software Prototypes/Non-Commercial Products
Morpheus
This synth offers modular Web Audio synthesis, MIDI learn, intuitive navigation, and voice control—empowering musicians of all abilities to create, explore, and perform uniquely.
Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
Morphonium
A trio of MIDI controllers with an intuitive keyboard-like wheel design used together to endlessly shape and layer sound in realtime and notate the results.
Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
Mugo
Affordable gesture-controlled musical device enabling children with physical disabilities to create and perform music through simple movements, promoting inclusion and musical development.
Software Prototypes/Non-Commercial Products
MusiKraken
MusiKraken is a modular MIDI construction kit for mobile devices. You can combine camera, touch, motion sensors and microphone input with effects to make music.
Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
MusiMoto
MusiMoto is a SW+HW system designed to empower anyone who likes playing MIDI musical instruments to do it while walking, jogging, riding, skating or dancing.
Commercial Hardware Products, MIDI 2.0 MIDI Innovation Awards Category
Native Instruments Kontrol S-Series MK3
Stay in the flow with our next-generation MIDI keyboard controller. Seamlessly control instruments, effects, and your DAW. Plus, get the benefits of MIDI 2.0.
Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
Shetu
Shetu is an open-source software MIDI 2.0 research demonstrator, written in C using off-the-shelf parts, with individual note pitch bending and sound pressure control.
Artistic/Visual Project or Installation
Smile Powered Pop Music with PhotoSYNTH @ Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2025
A Smile Powered Musical Instrument installation that grants instant musical-superpowers to people who engage with it, allowing everybody to make music together, regardless of ability.
Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
The Expression Orchestra
A sensory symphonia where the audience are the performers. The Expression Orchestra is an ensemble of instruments designed to increase access to rich musical expression.
Hardware Prototypes/Non-Commercial products
The Kellycaster
Reimagining what a guitar can be, the Kellycaster is a symbol of co-design, accessibility, and musical innovation. The sound of inclusion, cranked up to eleven.
Commercial Software Products
UniMIDI Hub
Application enabling anyone to play music using MIDI devices, typing-keyboards, eye-trackers, or touchscreens generating notes, chords, sequences, samples, and sending MIDI to DAWs and instruments.
