The MASSIG group, including MIDI Association members like Amnote, Arcana Instruments, Audio Modeling, BetterMaker, Roland, and many more along with Jay Pocknell from The Royal Institute for The Blind and accessibility-focused music technologists like Sam Prouse, has been working for over a year to develop MIDI technologies that improve accessibility
Come see what this group of talented young music production students have been inspired to create with MIDI.
Special thanks to Artiphon, Caedence, Jamstik, Playtime Engineering, Robkoo and others for their donations to the all-MIDI jam.
The MIDI Association and its members will provide updates on the latest developments in the major computer operating systems.
If you are a developer of MIDI products, this is a presentation you won’t want to to miss.
Senior JUCE developer Anthony Nicholls will show you how you can use JUCE to create your own, unique, audio and MIDI plug-ins that you can make available to other people.
The MIDI Association member companies that develop plugin formats - Apple (Audio Units), Avid (AAX), Bitwig (CLAP) and Steinberg (VST) are working together to develop open-source software that will enable plugin developers to quickly and easily interface with external MIDI gear without the need for any in depth knowledge of MIDI 2.0 or MIDI-CI.
At NAMM 2024, we showed off a working prototype of the MIDI 2.0 Piano Profile.
This year we focused on two other important parts of the Piano Profile- DAW Plugin support and implementation guidelines with accompanying Audio and MIDI files.
The MIDI Association has made significant progress this year in developing some Profiles focused on electronic drums and drum machines.
Digitaize takes a completely new approach to augmenting acoustic instruments. This innovative technology uses a unique sensor system to acquire real-time playing data from musical instruments. In this demonstration, the Digitaize Module uses software instruments from Spectrasonics, Moog, and Audio Modeling, a hardware from CME and Roland to showcase its versatility.
Please join us as we introduce the new MIDI Association Executive and Technical Standards Boards, review the previous year’s progress and take a look at what we want to accomplish in 2025.
Join Jean Baptiste Thibeaut from Music Hackspace and Martin Keary (host of the 2024 MIDI Innovation Awards Show) as they introduce the winners of the 2024 MIDI Innovation Awards.
Meet all the musical instrument, software and app innovators at NAMM! Everyone gets the mic in this networking session. Give your 30-second introduction, connect faces to names around the room, then break to network one on one. Leave with connections to collaborators, customers, allies, and friends.
Join this special A3E and MIDI Association session for an in-depth, tactical exploration of how they are leading a global collaboration among musicians from diverse cultures, united by the universal language of music, and presented by world-class musicians.
Join Sergey Antonovich, the engineer who designed two groundbreaking instruments recognized as MIDI Innovation Awards 2024 finalists – the Partymaker: Accordion Synthesizer and the Digital Flex Accordion – and Vladimir Butusov, a professional accordionist who has dedicated his career to popularizing the accordion and is a finalist of the prestigious V-Accordion Festival, for an electrifying live demo.
Experience the world's most portable full-featured electronic accordion, along with a hybrid acoustic-electronic accordion (and watch out for a very special guest from last year)
The MIDI Association is pleased to announce that they will have be at Booth O243 at Super Booth 2025. Come learn about the latest developments in MIDI 2.0.
Join Isaac de la Mora (SAE Mexico), Lee Whitmore (Focusrite, Chair of MIDI in Music Education SIG), Jennifer Amaya (Riverside City College)
and other MIDI In Music Education members as they show off the work done by SAE Mexico on the MIDI In Music Education curriculum.
Date: Youtube Premier On Saturday May 31, 2025 at 10 am Pacific
Event: MIDI In Music Education Working Group Presentation and Webinar
The MIDI Association will host an education-focused webinar, bringing together music educators, industry leaders, and students to discuss new initiatives and expand engagement with MIDI in education globally.
The Music Accessibility Special Interest Group will host a Youtube Premier on June 5th at 10 am Pacific time. The primary focus is on discussing advancements in making music creation more accessible for individuals with disabilities, along with updates and demonstrations from various organizations involved in this initiative.
#MakeMusicWithMIDI on June 21 Make Music Day
June 21 is both the longest day of the year and International Make Music Day.
We are asking everyone to help us create a worldwide day of celebration of making music with MIDI by:
* Creating some music with MIDI
* Uploading it to your social media channels with the hashtag -#MakeMusicWithMIDI
Be creative and share your passion for making music with MIDI to the whole world!
Andrew Huang is a musician, video creator, and bestselling author.
He is hosting this year's MIDI Innovation Awards show on his Youtube channel.
Music X at Music China aims to innovate new music technology, explore new music consumption scenarios, inspire musicians, music lovers, and content producers to explore future music life, lowering the barriers for playing with music.
Artware hub
Founder Ikutaro Kakehashi established the new "Artware hub" with the aim of creating a "live space where people can experience live sounds created by electronic technology."
This event will feature demonstrations of both MIDI 2.0 products, a technical talk from AMEI and MIDI Association developers and demonstrations of the winner of the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards.
This event is not open to the public, but we will cover it in an article as soon as we return from Japan.
Tokyo Musical Instrument Expo, a comprehensive, customer-participation musical instrument experience event based on the concept of "See, Listen, Play, and Hit!
The MIDI Association will have a booth featuring the latest in MIDI 2.0 developments and the winners of the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards,
Join 750+ artists, songwriters, producers, musicians, DJs, and engineers at Music Expo 25, San Francisco’s premier music conference to create, connect, and grow their careers.
The world’s most powerful tech event is your place to experience the innovations transforming how we live.
The MIDI Association is the world’s top non-profit trade organization that connects the companies who develop new MIDI products and specifications with all the people across the globe who use MIDI products to create captivating music and art.