Anaheim Convention Center | Front of Hall A | The MIDI Association Booth 10302

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)

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.

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.

The MIDI Association has made significant progress this year in developing some Profiles focused on electronic drums and drum machines. 

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 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. 

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 DAW Working Group is working on a DAW Control Profile which would supersede proprietary control protocols like Mackie Control and Logic Control with a true industry standard for controlling DAWs via external hardware and software. 

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.

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 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

Tang Nan (artist name TamiX) who runs Midifan, the largest Music Production website in China will interview Hotone, Medeli, MIDI Plus, Robkoo and Synido about the latest developments in MIDI technology in China.

Network MIDI 2.0 (UDP) Transport Specification defines a way to connect home studios or performance venues via Ethernet and wireless LAN on a local area network using MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 UMP packets. 

The MIDI Association will present John Bowen, Karl Hirano, Tadao Kikumoto, Tetsuo Nishimoto, Chris Meyer, Jeff Rona and Brian Vincik with MIDI Association Lifetime Achievement awards for their contributions to MIDI from 1983 to 1990.