Caedence named finalist for 2026 NAMM TEC Awards
MIDI Association member Caedence has been named a finalist in the 41st NAMM TEC Awards in the Audio Apps & Hardware / Peripherals for Smartphones & Tablets category, alongside global […]
2025 MIDI Association Annual Meeting
Every year The MIDI Association meets with its corporate members and members of the MIDI Association Special Interest Groups to participate in all member online meeting. As there were no […]
MIDI Meet Up Event At The Kakehashi Foundation
After Music China closed on Saturday night, we packed up, grabbed some dinner and then on Sunday flew to Tokyo. On Monday, The MIDI Association was part of an event […]
Interview with Robkoo’s Oscar Xie
We caught up with Oscar Xie CEO & Founder of Robkoo at Music China 2025 to discuss the latest releases from Robkoo and Pedro Eustache, wind synthesist and performer with […]
MIDI and Music Education: Expanding Access and Engagement Worldwide
Date: Youtube Premier On Saturday May 31, 2025 Event: MIDI In Music Education Working Group Presentation and Webinar The MIDI Association will host an education-focused webinar, bringing together music educators, […]
MIDI In Music Education and SAE Mexico
SAE Mexico has been selected to begin work on The MIDI Association’s MIDI In Music Education curriculum by the NAMM Foundation. They will provide the curriculum materials in both English […]
The MIDI Association NAMM 2025
The MIDI Association and MIDI Showcase at NAMM 2025 continued to grow in both size and attendance at events. Over 30 companies from The MIDI Association had booths at NAMM […]
MIDI Association Presentations on the Music China 2024 X Stage
Music China and the Chinese Musical Instrument Association (CMIA) have really stepped up their support for MIDI and digital music making and right next to The MIDI Association booth was […]
The MIDI In Music Education Initiative Moves Forward
Starting in 2021, Athan Billias (MIDI Association President), Denis Labrecque (former MIDI Association Exec Board member) , and Lee Whitmore (MIDI Association Board Member and Treasurer)Â initiated biweekly meetings of […]
The MIDI in Music Education Special Interest Group
The MIDI in Music Education (MIME) Special Interest Group has defined a MIDI Curriculum and a Certification Program Starting in 2021, Athan Billias (MIDI Association President), Denis Labrecque (former MIDI […]
What Musicians & Artists need to know about MIDI 2.0
This article is to explain the benefits of MIDI 2.0 to people who use MIDI. If you are a MIDI developer looking for the technical details about MIDI 2.0, go […]
MIDI In Music Education Webinar- Saturday, May 13, 2023
Hosted by MIDI In Music Education Working Group Chair, Lee Whitmore, VP of Education for Focusrite, the webinar featured virtual tours of several MIDI In Music Education institutions including Belmont […]
MIDI – The Music Education Tool K-12 Can’t Live Without: New Benchmarks for Chromebooks
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is the technical standard for connecting electronic musical instruments and computers to record, edit, and playback music.Created in 1983 and 40 years later, it is […]
More Playful Products with MIDI at NAMM 2022
Join MIDI Association President Athan Billias, artiphon’s Emma Supica and Oddball’s Pasquale Totaro for a discussion of playful (and round) products that use MIDI from the June 2022 NAMM show Follow the bouncing […]
Playful Products with MIDI at NAMM 2022
Join MIDI Association President Athan Billias, Big Ear Games Aviv Ben-Yahuda , Playtronics’ Sacha Pas and Playtime Engineering’s Troy Sheets for a discussion of playful products that use MIDI from […]
The NAMM Foundation and the MIDI Association announce the Launch of The MIDI Fund
Los Angeles, CA – June 2, 2022 The NAMM Foundation and the MIDI Association are pleased to announce the MIDI Fund, a new donor-advised fund in The NAMM Foundation. The […]
MIDI In Music Education Webinar -Saturday, May 21
Join the inaugural webinar of the MIDI Association’s MIDI in Music Education (MiME) working group. To celebrate “May is MIDI Month,” we welcome Craig Anderton – who’s played Carnegie Hall, […]
A MIDI Controller has a MIDI Controller that sends MIDI Controllers
MIDI Controllers (Products, Physical Controls, and Messages) Unfortunately the word controller is overburdened in the MIDI lexicon and probably the most overused word in the world of MIDI. It can refer to […]
Solve Problems with MIDI Plug-Ins
A DAW’s MIDI Plug-Ins Can Provide Solutions to Common Problems In a world obsessed with audio plug-ins, MIDI plug-ins may not seem sexy—but with MIDI’s continued vitality, they remain very […]
How to Create Polyrhythmic MIDI Echoes
There’s more to life than audio echo – like MIDI echo Although the concept of MIDI echo has been around for years, early virtual instruments often didn’t have enough voices […]
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 […]
Bandlab Breaks the Music Education MIDI Sound Barrier
Once upon a time, school students had to know how to play an instrument to make music or know enough theory to compose a song. We all gathered in the […]
Synthesis Fundamentals from the Bob Moog Foundation, Ableton’s Learning Synths, and Chrome Music Lab
The Bob Moog Foundation and the MIDI Association The Bob Moog Foundation and the MIDI Association have had a close working relationship for many years. When we talked to Michelle Moog-Koussa, […]
Melodics- Using MIDI to Learn Music
Melodics is modern learning for modern instruments Melodics is modern learning for modern instruments, supporting MIDI Keyboards, Pad Controllers, and electronic drum kits. It’s structured learning for solid progress. Melodics takes the […]
Audio Assemble-Video Tutorials, Product Reviews, & Pro Tools
There are lots of websites that offer information on DAWs and music production. Audio Assemble takes a unique approach by offering articles, videos, reviews, interviews and information on schools that […]
May 28-Manual Vibrato for Keyboards
The way most keyboard players add vibrato is to turn up the mod wheel, and inject some LFO to change the oscillator pitch periodically. That’s fine, but consider guitar players—they […]
May 27-Polyrhythmic MIDI Echoes
There’s more to life than audio echo—like MIDI echo. Although the concept of MIDI echo has been around for years, early virtual instruments often didn’t have enough voices to play […]
May 26-Why ReWire Is Very Cool
ReWire is a software protocol that allows two (or sometimes more) software applications to work together as one integrated program. For example, suppose you wish your DAW of choice had […]
May 25-“Proofing” MIDI Sequences
Sometimes you hit notes you don’t want to hit, particularly if you’re playing MIDI guitar or some other alternate controller (although this tip is most relevant to MIDI guitar, even […]
May 24-Tempo Track Tweaks
In the days before click tracks, tempos varied because musicians are humans, not crystal-controlled clocks. However, these changes were far from random. While researching an article for Sweetwater’s inSync web […]
May 23-Don’t Get Tripped Up by Local Control
Sometimes you don’t need an external, dedicated MIDI controller—the one on your favorite synth may be all you need, and the synth even has built-in sounds. The keyboard usually feeds […]
May 22-Parameter Control with Footpedals
Some virtual instrument and effects parameters just cry out for footpedal control—too bad you don’t have a pedal that outputs MIDI data…or do you? If you have a keyboard synthesizer […]
May 21-Leading and Lagging the Beat for Feel
You can “humanize” sequences that have been quantized too rigidly by tweaking the start times for individual notes or phrases. Ignore any menu item called “humanization,” because this usually just […]
May 20- All Rexed Up
REX files chop digital audio into “slices,” each of which is associated with a MIDI note. Playing a MIDI note triggers its associated slice, which is why REX files can […]
May 19-Programming Synths for MIDI Guitar
Part of making MIDI guitar feel “right” when triggering synths has nothing to do with the guitar and its tracking, but with editing the synth presets so that they’re guitar-friendly […]
May 18-Processing Audio with MIDI Control
Some MIDI instruments, particularly those from Arturia, include an external input for processing audio signals through the synthesizer’s filter, VCA, and effects modules. That’s cool enough, but of course, what’s […]
May 17 Non-Rigid Quantization
One of the complaints about “MIDI music” is that quantizing everything to the beat sucks the life out of a song by eliminating the kind of timing variations humans make. […]
May 16-The Advantages of Starting Songs with MIDI
When you’re songwriting, you want nothing to get in the way of your creativity, and you want as fast a workflow as humanly possible—so for those reasons, you’re better off […]
May 15-Arpeggiation Meets Percussion
Most people of think of arpeggiation solely in melodic terms, but arpeggiation has additional uses. General MIDI instruments include drum kits where the top notes are percussion sounds, and many […]
May 14-Why MIDI Plug-Ins Are Cool
When audio plug-ins entered the mainstream, MIDI plug-ins took somewhat of a backseat because they weren’t the “shiny new toy” in town. However with MIDI’s resurgence, companies are paying more […]
Audiopedia 109 MIDI from Ask Audio
AudioPedia 109: MIDI Ask Audio’s AudioPedia series is a comprehensive video dictionary of audio terminology. Created by audio expert Joe Albano, this encyclopedia of technical terms is the ultimate audio […]
MICROTUNING AND ALTERNATIVE INTONATION SYSTEMS
MICROTUNING VIRTUAL AND ELECTRONIC HARDWARE INSTRUMENTS: AN OVERVIEW OF FORMATS AND METHODS FOR USING ALTERNATIVE INTONATION SYSTEMS For those electronic hardware synthesis enthusiasts, as well as computer based musicians and […]
5 MIDI Quantization Tips
Make quantization work for you, not against you Quantization is the process of moving MIDI data (usually notes, but also potentially other data) that’s out of time to a rhythmic […]
Ask.Audio Article on MIDI Messages
Ask.Audio and Non Linear Educating Ask.Audio is one of our favorite technology websites and has been a great partner to The MIDI Association. We have worked with Ask.Audio’s parent company, Non Linear Educating […]
“What is MIDI” Guide by Paul Lehrman
Join the MIDI Association and download the 21 page booklet “What is MIDI” excerpted from “MIDI for the Professional” by Paul Lehrman and Tim Tully. We’re always trying to help our MIDI Association members get the […]
How to Find MIDI Sequencer “Gotchas”
Fix those little “gotchas” before they make it into the final mix by Craig Anderton MIDI sequencing is wonderful, but it’s not perfect—and sometimes, you’ll be sandbagged by problems like […]
An Intro to MIDI
What MIDI does, how to use it, how devices are connected, and more. pdf File Name: An Introduction to MIDI File Size: 2.1 mb Download File
Audio Wiki MIDI Message diagram
Our friends over at http://en.wikiaudio.org created this simplfied diagram of MIDI messages and kindly let us put it up here.
​Tutorial: Benefits of MIDI
Unlike audio file formats like MP3 files and CDs, MIDI files contain individual instructions for playing each individual note of each individual instrument. So with MIDI it is actually possible to […]
Sound on Sound MIDI Basics, Part 2: Sequencing
Paul White’s beginners’ guide to MIDI continues. This month, he explains the concept of MIDI sequencing.To anyone used to playing and recording using traditional methods and skills, the MIDI sequencer is […]
Sound on Sound MIDI Basics, Part 1
Paul White, editor of Sound on Sound wrote a series of articles in 1995 for newcomers to MIDI. You might imagine that most SOS readers already have a pretty firm grasp of MIDI, but new […]
About MIDI-Parts 6:The Benefits of MIDI
Unlike MP3 files and CDs, MIDI files contain individual instructions for playing each individual note of each individual instrument. So with MIDI it is actually possible to change just one […]
About MIDI-Part 1:Overview
MIDI (pronounced “mid-e”) is a technology that makes creating, playing, or just learning about music easier and more rewarding. Playing a musical instrument can provide a lifetime of enjoyment and […]
About MIDI-Part 2:MIDI Cables & Connectors
Part 2: MIDI Cables & Connectors Many different “transports” can be used for MIDI messages. The speed of the transport determines how much MIDI data can be carried, and how quickly […]
Tutorial: MIDI and Music Synthesis
An explanation of music synthesis technology and how MIDI is used to generate and control sounds. This document was originally published in 1995 at a time when MIDI had been […]
About MIDI-Part 4:MIDI Files
Standard MIDI Files (“SMF” or *.mid files) Standard MIDI Files (“SMF” or *.mid files) are a popular source of music on the web, and for musicians performing in clubs […]
About MIDI-Part 3:MIDI Messages
Part 3: MIDI Messages The MIDI Message specification (or “MIDI Protocol”) is probably the most important part of MIDI. MIDI is a music description language in digital (binary) form. It […]
Why MIDI Matters
MIDI is like air, it’s all around you, most of the time you can take it for granted, but if you are a digital musician you probably couldn’t live with […]