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Innovation Category: Software Prototypes/Non-Commercial Products

A collage of musical instruments, including a violin, guitar, brass horn, and pipes, with the text Conductor MIDI 2.0 Virtual Orchestra overlaid in the center.

Conductor

Written by Chris Stone on September 1, 2026.

A digital drum machine interface displays a sequencer grid, drum pads, and controls for sample selection, velocity, and tempo. Dots on the grid represent beats for different drum sounds.

Drumcheck

Written by memy on September 1, 2026.

Two smartphones display colorful circular music sequencer apps with interconnected nodes and buttons labeled Loop, Graph, and Editor, set against a dark background. Arrows and lines connect elements on each screen.

Midilo – Flow-based, MIDI-first looping

Written by Marcus Zepp on August 31, 2026.

MIDI2 Monitor MK2

Written by Mike Kent on August 31, 2026.

A digital music production interface with multiple sound channels, sliders, and effects controls, above a virtual piano keyboard. The screen is dark-themed with colorful highlights for various instrument channels.

Modulix

Written by Umut Erhan on August 31, 2026.

Two hands play a MIDI keyboard below a computer screen displaying virtual piano keys and animated hand diagrams, visualizing finger positions and notes being played.

Sleight

Written by Dean Coyle on August 31, 2026.

A tablet on a tripod displays a pixelated, colorful digital image editing interface, with a finger pointing at the screen. A blurred plant is visible in the background.

Trencadís App

Written by Oscar Martinez Carmona on August 31, 2026.

Gimbal

Written by Scott on August 30, 2026.

A music analysis software interface shows a spectrum graph, chord info, settings, and a virtual piano keyboard with colored keys, displaying harmonic and note data for a played chord.

TONAVA

Written by Ehsan Tavakkol on August 30, 2026.

Virtual synthesizer interface with knobs, buttons, a waveform display, program selector, and a keyboard at the bottom. Controls include volume, reverb, compressor, and quality settings.

LiteWebSynth

Written by Oleg Klenitsky on August 26, 2026.

A digital DJ or VJ software interface with grids, controls, color-coded buttons, video thumbnails, audio levels, and effects settings, all set against a dark background.

LumaDeck Web

Written by Jaime Constán on August 23, 2026.

A music software interface showing a D minor chord wheel on the left and virtual keyboard controller settings on the right, with options for color, fingering, and chord variations.

XPI – Gamepad MIDI Input

Written by Harry Speight on August 15, 2026.

A split image: left shows a VR simulation with green hands, a robot, and music controls; right shows a person in VR gear using hand gestures. Medical Device Research Institute and Flinders University logos are visible.

REFLECT

Written by reflect-tb on August 15, 2026.

A man plays guitar while looking at digital music software on a large computer monitor in a modern room, with speakers and a keyboard on the desk.

FretMorpher

Written by John on August 13, 2026.

A terminal window displays file management commands and guitar tablature for Say Its Your Birthday. The bottom section shows the songs tablature in a grid format with musical notes and numbers.

vguitar 2.9

Written by nicholas on August 10, 2026.

A digital audio workstation interface shows multiple tracks with colorful blocks and patterns, representing different instruments and sound sequences, arranged for music production. Playback controls and settings are visible at the top and bottom.

MNS Music Engine

Written by Nick Coleman on July 22, 2026.

A digital music sequencer interface shows a grid with blue blocks representing notes on different pitches and beats, alongside playback and editing controls at the top.

Alien Instruments Studio

Written by Samuel on July 20, 2026.

A short piece of sheet music for piano with two staves, showing chords in both hands, titled Example 29.

Verovio microtonal support

Written by Karim Ratib on July 12, 2026.

A dark-themed virtual keyboard and synthesizer controller interface overlays a light-colored modular synth patching software window, both displaying various controls, sliders, and keyboard keys.

Phylo

Written by Edward Lewis on July 12, 2026.

A person holding a smartphone with a colorful, abstract pattern on the screen, using their right hand. Another person beside them uses a tablet or laptop. Both are seated closely together.

Ensemble Jammer

Written by Nathan Turczan on July 8, 2026.

A music software window shows a Scale Navigator interface with scale options, a highlighted keyboard, and selected notes and scales displayed. The title indicates its Tonalign, and theres a prominent Interrupt button.

Tonalign

Written by Nathan Turczan on July 8, 2026.

Promotional graphic for a portable MIDI 2.0 stack for embedded systems, featuring bold black, blue, orange, and red text on a beige background with colorful stripes on the right. Includes website and GitHub link.

midi2.diy: A Portable MIDI 2.0 Stack for Embedded Systems

Written by Saulo Verissimo on July 7, 2026.

A digital music production interface with piano keys, various sound controls, graphs, sliders, and analysis panels, displaying options for capturing, editing, and modifying musical audio. The design is sleek with a dark theme.

Quill

Written by Chuling LI on July 7, 2026.

Two electronic circuit boards with USB connectors and colorful wires are displayed on a black surface. The left board has a small screen displaying text, while the right board is connected to a blue sensor module.

ESP-NOW MIDI & enomik (ESP-NOW MIDI Kit)

Written by Thomas Geissl on July 5, 2026.

MIDIWeb

Written by Antony Nasce on July 5, 2026.

Screenshot of the MusicNote Haven MIDI Manager dashboard, displaying navigation menus on the left and key stats, archive summaries, device info, and workflow buttons in the main panel on the right.

MusicNote Haven MIDI Manager

Written by MusicNoteHaven on June 24, 2026.

Screenshot of a MIDI piano and guitar chords detection tool. It shows a blank musical staff, a piano keyboard, and a detection panel with options to play MIDI input and display chords, notes, and intervals.

MIDI Piano & Guitar Chords

Written by Antonio Ortega González on May 21, 2026.

SampleConductor

Written by Justin van der Merwe on April 27, 2026.

GrooveConductor

Written by Justin van der Merwe on April 19, 2026.

Play-a-Synth

Written by Jonna Laaksonen on July 9, 2025.

* Sympathetic Synthesizer

Written by Zenon Olenski on July 9, 2025.

A video call screen shows two people with images of two identical white arcana controllers below them. A virtual piano keyboard spans the top of the screen, and call control icons are visible at the bottom.

Arcana Remote Learning

Written by Haim on July 9, 2025.

MIDI voice control and feedback

Written by Haim on July 9, 2025.

A grid of hexagonal buttons, mostly gray, with colored clusters: red at the top, green, yellow, and blue in the middle, pink on the sides, and one white hexagon near the bottom.

Scalable

Written by Aaron Levitz on July 9, 2025.

CHROMOLA

Written by Sean Finnigan on July 9, 2025.

Synthesizer interface showing multiple oscillators, filters, envelope controls, sliders, knobs, and a red graph for shaping sound parameters, labeled Vangpad Pol Choir/Analog AN-X.

WebMIDI Sysex Editor Framework

Written by Kier Darby on July 9, 2025.

A computer screen displays a cue management software with lists of session cue groups, memory locations, and cue details. Large green timer displays at the bottom show MIDI Time Code and Next Locator Countdown times. Forest background visible.

Setlist Manager (Ver.3)

Written by Paul Eastman on July 9, 2025.

A screenshot of Ableton Live’s MIDI editor shows a chord progression—Cmaj7, Dm7, Em7, Fmaj7—with labeled orange text below each chord. MIDI notes are displayed as horizontal bars across the grid.

M2TM NOTES

Written by Francesco on July 9, 2025.

AirBending

Written by Asep Bagja Priandana on July 9, 2025.

A dark-themed website interface for creating or uploading musical samples, featuring sample upload options, volume controls, and a virtual 88-key piano keyboard at the bottom. Text is in French.

La Boîte A Musique

Written by philippe marin on July 9, 2025.

Screenshot collage of a hierarchical modular MIDI sequencer software interface, showing various controls, sequence grids, automation paths, and modular patching panels. Text: Seq—A Hierarchical and Modular MIDI Sequencer.

Seq

Written by Sean on July 9, 2025.

Connect Through MIDI

Written by Tobias Hunke on July 9, 2025.

A diagram showing a jazz chord progression as code on the left, colorful lines mapping it to a digital piano roll in the center, and the piano roll representation of the chords on the right.

Werckmeister

Written by Johannes Unger on July 9, 2025.

Screenshot of the Morpheus synth plugin interface showing controls for two oscillators, oscillator modulation, filter morphing, and filters A and B. Dials, dropdowns, and sliders adjust various synthesis parameters.

Morpheus

Written by Samuel on July 9, 2025.

Diagram showing DigiShow LINK at the center, connecting to MIDI devices, software, Philips Hue lights, industrial controllers, screens, LED lights, and Arduino using protocols like OSC, MIDI, USB, DMX, Zigbee, and Modbus.

DigiShow LINK

Written by Robin Zhang on July 9, 2025.

Screenshot of the Tone Glide software interface showing a virtual keyboard, pattern editor, step sequencer, and various musical settings for scale, chord, and velocity adjustments.

Tone Glide

Written by Zachary Kinter on July 9, 2025.

A digital music software interface showing pitch and modulation sliders, a piano keyboard with one green highlighted key, and numbered colored buttons from 1 to 9 at the bottom.

VirtualKeyboard

Written by Marq V on July 9, 2025.

Screenshot of an audio loop sequencer interface called OFFLOOP vB31, showing various control modules, sliders, buttons, a step sequencer grid, and adjustable parameters for sound manipulation.

OFFLOOP Web MIDI Sequencer

Written by Gerald on July 9, 2025.

A smartphone screen shows a music creation app with a floating geometric 3D shape, blue background, and grid of musical notes below. Text above reads, A playful relaxing way to create music.

Playtonik

Written by Antony Nasce on July 9, 2025.

A digital audio metering interface displays three yellow bar graphs and a waveform graph on a black background, showing various audio levels and measurements with labels and numerical readouts.

Flufs: An accessible real-time & offline loudness meter

Written by Iftah Gabbai on July 9, 2025.

Digital interface for a virtual violin instrument, showing a violin graphic at the top and control knobs below for main volume, dynamic range, timbre, sustain, legato, and release settings.

Violin One

Written by Yichi Wang on July 9, 2025.

A digital drum machine interface shows controls for kick, snare, floor tom, and rack tom drums, with dials for dynamic, volume, range, and reverb adjustments, plus labeled drum sound presets below each drum.

Supreme Drums One Synth

Written by Yichi Wang on July 9, 2025.

Screenshot of a digital piano plugin interface labeled “Piano One.” It shows controls for dynamics, volume, resonance, pedal noise, string noise, and release volume, with various knobs and a small piano image.

Piano One

Written by Yichi Wang on July 9, 2025.

A music composition software interface shows chord progressions (C, G, Am, F) on a timeline, track layers with waveforms and MIDI data, and a chord suggestion panel displaying substitute and borrowed chords.

RapidComposer

Written by Attila Mezei on July 9, 2025.

A user interface for an AI Music Generation Model Explorer displays three model cards (AudioLCM, Dance Diffusion, R-VAE), each listing model details, descriptions, and links, with tags and filter buttons at the top.

AI Music Generation Model Explorer

Written by Nick Bryan-Kinns on July 9, 2025.

A digital music app displays the intro section of House of the Rising Sun with Am, C, D, and F chords shown in colored boxes. Options for form, chords, and lyrics editing are visible on the left side.

Caedence

Written by jeffbernett on July 9, 2025.

Diagram illustrating MIDI 2.0 Core for AI collaboration, showing JSON parsing of symbolic musical data, real-time communication between two AI agents named Kai and Claude, and key features of the protocol.

MIDI 2.0 Core Specification for Autonomous Systems

Written by Jon Stiles on July 9, 2025.

A digital music interface displays multiple horizontal tracks with colored lines, waveform previews, and controls for playback, MIDI input, tempo, and preset settings. The interface has black and yellow accents.

Music Non Stop – Music Engine (MNS-ME)

Written by Nick Coleman on July 9, 2025.

Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer

Written by Evan Mezeske on July 9, 2025.

Screenshot of the Music Genie software interface, showing sections for valid data entry, note sequence generator, tuning generator, and timing generator, with various input fields, dropdowns, and action buttons.

Music Genie

Written by The MIDI Association on June 19, 2024.

Two people dressed as Mrs. Claus and Santa Claus sing karaoke, holding microphones in front of a screen displaying Spanish lyrics for Silent Night. A teddy bear and Christmas tree are in the background.

Milli On.Key Harmonizing Karaoke

Written by The MIDI Association on June 19, 2024.

A futuristic synthesizer software interface with controls for LFO, VCA, amp, filter, oscillators, and keyboard. Blue and purple graphics, sliders, knobs, and a digital screen are displayed on the main panel.

Spaceship

Written by The MIDI Association on June 19, 2024.

A ShowMIDI app window displays three MIDI devices—LinnStrument MIDI, Seaboard BLOCK, and Sensel Morph—each showing multiple channels with control values like PB, CC, CP, and numerical data in a grid layout.

ShowMIDI

Written by The MIDI Association on June 19, 2024.

A digital interface for music creation shows tracks with visualizations for drums, electric bass, and piano. Controls for density, polyphony, and note length are visible, along with a list of MIDI files on the right.

Calliope

Written by The MIDI Association on June 19, 2024.

A digital music composition interface displays a piano roll with multicolored note blocks on a grid, a treble and bass clef staff, time signature set to 3/4, and tools for editing voices and instruments below.

Polyfluous

Written by The MIDI Association on June 19, 2024.

A vibrant, futuristic cityscape with glowing, colorful tiles on the ground leads to tall buildings under a pink-orange sky. Text reads Groove Builders, with branding for Vocal Pockets and First of Kind.

Groove Builders

Written by The MIDI Association on June 19, 2024.

A lineup of five electronic music devices labeled Pro, Standard, Baby, iPad, and iPhone, all from the Chord Board Family, displayed on a black background with white text.

Chord Board

Written by The MIDI Association on June 19, 2024.

Screenshot of a colorful MIDI controller interface with eight labeled pads for musical notes and functions, and a dark central overlay. Buttons for Save, Load, Reset, Options, and Full Screen are at the bottom and top right.

UniMIDI Hub

Written by The MIDI Association on June 19, 2024.

A digital scene with colorful molecular structures floating around a computer screen displaying complex scientific data, with a translucent blue human head silhouette on the right.

Musicality VR

Written by The MIDI Association on June 19, 2024.

airFont380 Final for Steinberg HALion Sonic© series

Written by The MIDI Association on February 5, 2024.

Abstract digital art with three overlapping black rectangles containing minimal white elements: circles, dots, a jagged line, and vertical bars resembling a barcode. Large D and 1 appear in the background.

D1 / Gliders

Written by The MIDI Association on February 5, 2024.

A tablet screen displays a music composition app with interconnected note nodes, labeled instruments, a piano keyboard at the bottom, and various control panels and icons for editing and playback.

Senode – Graph Seqencer

Written by The MIDI Association on February 5, 2024.

An iPad on a wooden table displays a virtual piano app with a hand-tracking feature, showing a hand with red dots on the fingers above digital piano keys. A blue cartoon octopus holding piano keys is above the iPad.

MusiKraken

Written by The MIDI Association on February 5, 2024.

A digital audio synthesizer interface with multiple rows and columns of knobs, buttons, and sliders for controlling oscillators, filters, envelopes, modulators, and effects. Green highlights indicate active controls and values.

FOURCUBE Protake

Written by The MIDI Association on February 5, 2024.

A digital audio editing software window showing multiple waveform and modulation graphs, parameter sliders, and a grid interface for creating and modifying sound patterns. Various frequency and amplitude data are displayed.

Sassy Audio Spreadsheet

Written by The MIDI Association on February 5, 2024.

A hand uses a stylus on a tablet displaying music software with waveform graphics, instrument options, and controls for playback, recording, and beat synchronization.

Whirled

Written by The MIDI Association on February 5, 2024.

Yellow graphic with a MIDI keyboard, a web browser window, and arrows connecting them around bold text reading WEBMIDI.js, representing web-based MIDI integration using the WebMIDI.js library.

WEBMIDI.js

Written by The MIDI Association on February 5, 2024.

A promotional image for ControllaXYZ shows a smartphone with an AR MIDI controller app on its screen, modern geometric shapes, and text stating: Turn your phone into an AR MIDI Controller with #ControllaXYZ. Download the free beta now.

Controlla XYZ – AR XYZ MIDI Controlla

Written by The MIDI Association on February 5, 2024.

Screenshot of a terminal window displaying the SendMIDI command line tool help, including usage instructions, command options, and descriptions for working with MIDI messages.

SendMIDI and ReceiveMIDI

Written by The MIDI Association on February 5, 2024.

A digital interface for MIDI recording and playback is shown, with playback controls and multiple tracks. Text highlights features: intuitive, effortless, MPE, looping, overdub, undo & redo, and MIDI file support.

MIDI Tape Recorder

Written by The MIDI Association on February 5, 2024.

A web app called MIDI Proxy displays a bar graph with eight vertical bars numbered 20, 24, 25, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, and 70, each paired with a slider control below. A Setup button is visible underneath.

MIDI Proxy

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

A digital music interface with piano keys, a grid sequencer showing a diagonal pattern, various control buttons, and sections for presets and saving. Some pads and grid cells are highlighted in yellow, blue, and orange.

Nularseq 0.9

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

A smartphone screen displays a music app with a dropdown menu listing instrument options, a piano keyboard graphic, control buttons, and settings for tempo and recording.

Android Audio Plugin: MidiDeviceService

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

A hexagonal grid diagram showing musical notes labeled with letters and accidentals. The hexagons are arranged in rows, with some dark, medium, and light shades highlighting different notes, including repeating “D#” hexagons.

Netz

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

Three colorful, smiling music note blocks—orange, blue, and yellow—hover above piano keys on a gradient blue and purple background. The blocks each have a musical note drawn on their faces.

Big Ear: Learn & Make Music

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

A laptop displaying the spArxx Genesys Fractal Tuning Generator screen, featuring a glowing blue circular design and patent information, against a gradient background.

spArxx Genesys™

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

A close-up of an electric guitar with a wooden finish, lying in front of audio equipment and a computer screen displaying the words Hot Licks! in a music production setup.

Hot Licks

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

Screenshot of the apres midi motion MIDI controller website. The page invites users to select a MIDI device to control synthesizers, with a blue button labeled Click to chose your midi-output in the center.

Apres midi

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

A person in black sits at a keyboard in front of two large screens displaying vibrant digital art with pink, red, and white flowers. The setting appears to be a modern indoor space with minimal decor.

Music Tapestry

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

A screenshot of a software license notice for a program by Daniel Hanrahan, referencing the GNU General Public License, and prompting the user to choose between Raspberry Pi(1), Arduino(2), or exiting the app.

note_data_to_instrument

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

Screenshot of the Pivotuner Scaletune plugin interface, showing pitch sliders for notes C to G, with various tuning values, plus options for key, pitch lock, and reset key or pitch.

Pivotuner

Written by The MIDI Association on February 4, 2024.

Network analysis dashboard showing a central green node labeled “System Center” connected to blue nodes on the left and orange nodes on the right, illustrating network paths and relationships between multiple sources and destinations.

MidiStrata

Written by The MIDI Association on February 3, 2024.

A digital music sequencer interface with eight vertical tracks, control knobs, mute buttons, and blue step indicators. On the right, there are sequencer grids with patterns and playback controls at the bottom.

seqMPEror

Written by The MIDI Association on February 3, 2024.

A colorful digital graphic featuring abstract neon patterns, facial mapping dots on two faces, and text: Extended Reality Synthesizer, Smile Powered Music, Instant Musical Superpowers!, and PhotoSYNTH Interface.

PhotoSynth > InterFACE

Written by The MIDI Association on February 3, 2024.

A digital interface displays a glowing orange and yellow ring resembling a sun, centered on a black background with soft gradients. Various control icons and a slider appear around the edges.

Bace

Written by The MIDI Association on February 3, 2024.

A silhouette of a person in front of a computer.

DAWn Audio

Written by The MIDI Association on February 3, 2024.

A group of people in a living room look at a wall where a colorful sequencer interface is projected. One person holds a smartphone, and another sits with a child on a couch beneath the projection.

Count-Me-In

Written by The MIDI Association on February 3, 2024.

A digital interface for AudioCipher’s chord generator displays settings for root note (G#), scale (Lydian), and chord type (7th), with options for randomizing rhythm and adjusting note duration.

AudioCipher V3

Written by The MIDI Association on February 3, 2024.

Hands playing a MIDI keyboard with the text MIDIVAL Typescript library for all your MIDI needs overlaid in bold white letters. Purple and blue tones highlight the image.

MIDIVal

Written by The MIDI Association on February 3, 2024.

A computer screen is split between digital audio mixing software with EQ controls on the left and a video conference with four participants—one clearly visible, three blurred—on the right.

The DAW Collaboration Framework (DCF)

Written by The MIDI Association on February 2, 2024.