What is MIDI? "MIDI is an industry standard music technology protocol that connects products from many different companies including digital musical instruments, computers, tablets, and smartphones.

It may have passed you by in the news, but the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) has recently unveiled more details about the upcoming MIDI 2.0 standard. Previously we covered the prototyping phase ...

Nearly 40 years after MIDI 1.0 specs were established and started to become widely adopted, the revamped MIDI 2.0 specs have been adopted unanimously by the MIDI Manufacturers Association (The MMA ...

We chat to Art+Logic’s Brett Porter to find out what makes this new interfacing spec tick When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Logic ...

In the Windows Insider Preview, Microsoft is now providing Windows MIDI Services, a new MIDI stack with MIDI 2.0 support. In the announcement of the Windows preview, Microsoft discusses Windows MIDI ...

You might be forgiven for thinking MIDI music was completely dead. While MIDI files were originally awesome (especially if your alternative was a PC speaker), everyone knew that WAV files offered ...

The MIDI spec was released in 1983, and for more than thirty years every synthesizer, drum machine, and piece of computer hardware with MIDI has sported an enormous DIN-5 jack on the back. Why did ...

MIDI, the global standard that allows digital musical instruments to talk to each other, has a new brand identity based on sound waves designed by Pentagram. This refresh of MIDI's identity replaces ...