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 […]
Synthogy Releases Ivory 3 American Concert D
Synthogy has released Ivory 3 American Concert D, the 2nd virtual piano for its Ivory 3 platform. Ivory 3 American Concert D features their legendary recordings of a vintage New York […]
Microsoft’s Major Moves To Make Making Music on Windows Easier
Pete Brown is both the MIDI Association Exec Board Chair and a Principal Software Engineer in the Windows Developer Platform team at Microsoft. He focuses on client-side dev on Windows, […]
Digishow-Jam With Everything
At the MIDI Forum, there were a number of technology presentations and one of the most fascinating was from Robin Zhang about the open source software he developed called Digishow. […]
GeoShred Studio for MacOS Released
GeoShred introduces a new paradigm for musical instruments, offering fluid expressiveness through a performance surface featuring the innovative “Almost Magic” pitch rounding. This cutting-edge software combines a unique performance interface […]
AudioCipher Technologies has just announced the release of Version 4.0: The MIDI Vault.
Founded in 2020, the company has slowly made a name for itself as the only text-to-MIDI chord and melody generator on the market. Their latest plugin improves on the classic […]
Caedence: browser-based music collaboration and performance software
Caedence is a browser-based music collaboration and performance software that allows people to sync and customize virtually every aspect of performances across devices – in real time – to help […]
ShowMIDI: effortlessly visualize MIDI activity
ShowMIDI is a multi-platform GUI application to effortlessly visualize MIDI activity, filling a void in the available MIDI monitoring solutions. Instead of wading through logs of MIDI messages to correlate relevant […]
AudioCipher V3: The Word-to-MIDI Melody and Chord Progression Generator
MIDI Association partner AudioCipher Technologies has just published Version 3.0 of their melody and chord progression generator plugin. Type in a word or phrase and AudioCipher will automatically generate MIDI […]
Introducing Bace: a Voice-to-MIDI Plug-in & Standalone App
Almost two years ago, we set out to build a tool that could capture an idea and turn it into workable music. After a long period of developing machine learning […]
3 Best AI Music Generators for MIDI Creation
A new generation of AI MIDI software has emerged over the past 5 years. Google, OpenAI, and Spotify have each published a free MIDI application powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. The […]
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 […]
Ableton-May is MIDI Month Platinum Sponsor
We make Live, Push and Link — unique software and hardware for music creation and performance. With these products, our community of users creates amazing things.Ableton was founded in 1999 […]
EasyController – By 42Percent Noir
Easily connect your MIDI with Unity, Max/MSP and openFramework – and control them all at the same time EasyController is a standalone virtual tool for live performance. We use it […]
The New Roland Cloud: ZENOLOGY Software Synthesizer, New Membership Plans, and Lifetime Keys
Earlier this month, Roland unveiled the biggest enhancements yet to the Roland Cloud platform. These include the introduction of the ZENOLOGY software synthesizer, new membership options, and the ability to […]
Yamaha and Camelot Pro make playing live easier
LIVE PERFORMING IS NOW MORE FUN AND EASY CROSS PLATFORM LIVE PERFORMANCE APPLICATION Wondering how to connect and control your hardware and software instruments in one place? Want to remotely […]
FL Studio- MIDI Recording and Editing
Here are three new videos about how to use MIDI in FL Studio 20% Off Online Video Courses This month get 20% off any TMA curriculum. Choose a monthly or […]
Cubase 10 MIDI Recording and Editing
Here are three new videos about how to use MIDI in Cubase 10 20% Off Online Video Courses This month get 20% off any TMA curriculum. Choose a monthly or […]
DUBLER STUDIO KIT: Your voice, the ultimate MIDI controller.
Dubler Studio Kit is a real-time vocal recognition MIDI controller. Vochlea Music recently launched a Kickstarter for Dubler Studio Kit and have raised over double their goal of $53,000 and still have 29 […]
Audiobus 3 adds MIDI Learn feature
Audiobus 3 update adds MIDI learn functionality Last year Audiobus added MIDI pipelines to Audiobus 3 to allow MIDI data to be routed between apps in three different ways as inputs, effects […]
Cubasis 2.6 adds new MIDI features/Roli Blocks integration
Cubasis 2.6 Overview Synonymous with ease of use, Cubasis 2 is a powerful and fully featured iOS-based music production system that pushes the creative envelope. Whether you’re capturing simple ideas […]
Audioswift-Your Trackpad As A MIDI Controller
Control · Improve · Create Slider Divide the trackpad in 1 to 4 virtual sliders and send CC or Pitch Bend MIDI messages. Add expressiveness to virtual instruments or automate […]
Telemidi – Creating music over The Internet in real-time
What is Telemidi? A system of connecting two DAW environments over the internet, to achieve real-time musical `jamming’.The product of Masters research by Matt Bray. “…a musician’s behaviour at one location will […]
MIDI Tool Integrates Real and Virtual Synths
The Live Performance Challenge The challenge for me as a performing musician has always been not being able to readily access desired sounds and sound layers during a live […]
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 […]
Using MIDI in the OnSong App
“I can consolidate my foot pedals down to just a few that let me move through my song and set list. Then OnSong acts as a controller using Bluetooth MIDI […]
MIDI and the Surface Pen
Pens and stylus’ have been employed as computer interaction devices for quite some time now. Most commonly they were used along with peripheral graphics tablets to give a more natural […]
BLE-MIDI, Sonar and Zivix Jam Stick- A New Way to Enter MIDI into your DAW
This is an article that was originally posted on the Cakewalk blog and they kindly gave us permission to excerpt it here on MIDI.org. Greetings! My name is Mike Green, Music […]
Now THAT’s a Horn Solo
Music is a visual language, too. Composer Andrew Huang used the piano roll editor in his MIDI sequencer to create sound from a picture of a unicorn. Each dot and line outlining the mythical creature triggers a MIDi note. To […]
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 […]
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 […]