Last year at Super Booth 2024, we kicked off the DAW Working Group project and created a report on MIDI Association companies ar Super Booth 2024.
Super Booth 2024 Report
Super Booth 2025 Wrap Up
This year we had a meeting at the Ableton office before Super Booth and then manned our own booth at Super Booth 2025 so people could come and interact directly with The MIDI Association.
We had a constant stream of visitors and answered a ton of questions for people.
Our booth featured new MIDI Association member Waldorf’s Iridium synth which supports MIDI 2.0 hi resolution messages.
The Waldorf was connected via USB to a Windows computer running the latest Developer Preview 8 with MIDI 2.0 support.
Pete Brown, MIDI Association Exec Board chair and Microsoft MIDI evangelist was at our booth there to answer questions and show off all the new features in the new Windows MIDI Services. The new Microsoft Open Source Driver sponsored by AMEI and the new MIDI Services bring not only MIDI 2.0 support, but tons of new features for MIDI 1.0 like Virtual MIDI ports and Loopback capabilities. He said the plan was to ship to the public by the summer.
Andrew Mee, chair of the Developer Support working group was constanly busy informing people about the Open Source sofware available on https://midi2.dev/.
Mike Kent, MIDI 2.0 Working Group was there not just to answer MIDI 2.0 questions , but to demo the Azoteq Inductive Music Keyboard which can easily implement MIDI 2.0 features because of it’s unique design.
MIDI Association Member Booths
We published a list before Super Booth of all the MIDI Association companies that would be participating in Super Booth 2025 which is now the largest gathering of synth companies at any trade show in Europe.
We created a lot of videos and we will be putting them up over the next fews days and weeks. But for now we wanted to cover the biggest surprise of the show for us.
Surprise of the show- The Yamaha Booth
Yamaha surprised everyone with a massive MIDI 1.0 controller for the Yamaha Montage that gives full knob control over every parameter in Montages AN and DX engines. It is an amazing amount of work given that Yamaha has no plans to sell this as product and it was just a part of Yamaha’s 50th Anniversary of Synthesizers.
It is amazing to see what can still be done with good old MIDI 1.0 and we can’t wait to see the future possibilities Yamaha will dream up with MIDI 2.0.