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Voting In The 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards
We had a record number of 121 entrants to the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards and between July 14 and August 4, you get to vote on who the 3 finalists […]
MIDI 2.0 Protocol: Using Relative Registered/Assignable Controllers
Introduction The Universal MIDI Packet (UMP) Format and MIDI 2.0 Protocol introduced Relative Registered Controllers and Relative Assignable Controllers: Section 7.4.8 of Version 1.1.2Registered Controller Messages and Assignable Controller Messages […]
Network MIDI 2.0: Implementation Guide – Using Sequence Numbers for Robustness and Recovery
The Network MIDI 2.0: User Datagram Protocol for Universal MIDI Packets specification by the MIDI Association and AMEI provides a new method for sending MIDI messages over standard IP networks. […]
The History of Electronic Wind Instruments
The MIDI Association has close relationships with many websites around the world that focus on music production and so often carry articles about MIDI. In fact many of these websites […]
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 […]
Lemonaide: The World’s First Fairly Trained AI MIDI Plugin
Lemonaide is a state of the art AI Company that creates MIDI and audio plugins that generate inspirational ideas (such as melodies and chord progressions in any key). They are […]
How I Made The MIDICard
I’m Alana Balagot, maker of The MIDICard. I’ve always been excited about music and technology. My piano teacher set up a simple MIDI studio in the 90’s, with a Dell […]
Ethics of AI MIDI
The ethics of AI music became a heated topic at industry panels in 2024, sparking debates around the notion of “fair use”. AI music tech companies have admitted to training […]