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Microsoft Blog Explains What’s New for MIDI In Windows 11
MIDI Association Exec Board chair Pete Brown and Gary Daniels (both from MIDI Association member Microsoft) just published an article on the Windows blog about how “Making music with MIDI just got a real boost in Windows 11”.
One of the things…
The Piano Profile at NAMM 2026
One of the most important things that The MIDI Association showed off at NAMM 2026 was The Piano Profile.
The Piano Profile standardizes the velocity and pedal curves and the registered controllers used to control a piano’s performance via…
DAW Control Profiles Update at NAMM 2026
Join members of the DAW Control Profile Working Group as they review the progress on creating a number of different MIDI 2.0 Profiles to replace proprietary protocols for controlling a DAW’s transport, markers, remote displays, and other aspects of…
New MIDI 2.0 Transports-BLE, Web MIDI and Transport Remote Management
NAMM 2026 Update
Join members of the Transport Working Group as they highlight the latest progress on MIDI 2.0 transports for Bluetooth, Web MIDI and updates to the Network spec to add remote management capabilities.
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SMF2 Container Format For Data Exchange
Update at NAMM 2026
At the 2026 NAMM show, Ben Israel from Yamaha’s Content and Research Development Center explained The MIDI Project Container File format.
The SMF 2 container format is intended to deliver multiple tracks of MIDI data and…
MIDI 2.0 Coming to Windows 11
One of the most significant developments for MIDI 2.0 at the 2026 NAMM show was that announcement by Microsoft that the new Windows MIDI Services (a new MIDI API, Service, Tools, and SDK) is rolling out to retail Microsoft Windows throughout the…
NAMM 2026 Soundgirls Panel with Karrie Keyes, Erika Earl and Mike Bangs
Karrie Keyes
Karrie began her career in live sound at the age of 18, Karrie Keyes has been the monitor engineer for Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder for 27 years. She’s also spent ten years 1990-2000 as a monitor engineer for Red Hot Chili Peppers and…
NAMM 2026 MIDI Innovation Awards Panel
At NAMM 2026, the MIDI Innovation Award’s Jean Baptiste Thiebaut, Judge Lucas Cantor Santiago, and MIDI Innovation Award winners Anthony Dickens from Circle Instruments, and Mike Venter from Azotech discussed the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards and…
NAMM 2026 MIDI In Music Education Panel
At NAMM 2026, Athan Billias (from The MIDI Association), Robert De La Pena (from SAE Mexico), Professor Jennifer Amaya (from Riverside City College), Gillian Demarais from TI:ME (Technology In Music Education in the US) and Kate Rounding from TiME…
Details about MIDI 2.0, MIDI-CI, Profiles and Property Exchange (Updated June, 2023)
This article is for companies looking to develop MIDI 2.0 products, both software developers and hardware manufacturers. If you are a MIDI user looking for the benefits of MIDI 2.0, […]
Network MIDI 2.0 (UDP) Overview
User Datagram Protocol for Universal MIDI Packets (aka Network MIDI 2.0) defines a standard way to connect MIDI devices (MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 protocol) via Ethernet and wireless LAN. […]
Arduino MIDI Output Basics
Introduction The Arduino UNO is a popular open-source microcontroller that, in many respects, is a perfect complement to the extensible nature of the Music Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) protocol. Microcontroller […]
The History of Electronic Wind Instruments
This post is an English translation of the article that originally appeared on the website DTM Station in Japanese. Our sincere thanks to DTM Station for allowing us to repost […]
THE ORIGINS OF WAVE SEQUENCING
CCRMA and the Culture of Invention This paper attributes contemporary Wave Sequencing to CCRMA composer Bill Schottstaedt’s 1987 work Leviathan, which radically extended musique concrète techniques by computing over 15,000 […]
MIDI 2.0 Drum Profiles
The MIDI Association has made significant progress this year in developing two Profiles focused on electronic drums and drum machines. The Default Drum Map Profile defines a MIDI-CI Profile for […]
Frank Zappa and the Synclavier.
In 1986 Frank Zappa released his final studio album in his lifetime; for the remaining seven years of his life, he would only release live concert albums.Jazz from Hell is an […]
Mixing with Virtual Instruments: The Basics
DAW software, like Ableton Live, Logic, Pro Tools, Studio One, etc. isn’t just about audio. Virtual instruments that are driven by MIDI data produce sounds in real time, in sync […]
LEARN THE PIANO WITH YAMAHA AND FLOWKEY
The best new way to learn piano. Learning with flowkey is easy and fun. Practice notes and chords interactively and receive instant feedback. The idea behind flowkey is simple: “learn […]