The MIDI Association

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The MIDI AssociationIndustryMusic Is For Everyone: MIDI MEETUP 2026 at the Kakehashi Foundation Artware hub KAKEHASHI MEMORIAL, Tokyo — Tuesday 3 November 2026. MIDI MEETUP 2026 “Music is for Everyone” 〜すべての人へ音楽の体験を〜 Date: Tuesday, 3 November 2026, 15:00–18:00 Venue: Artware hub KAKEHASHI…

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The MIDI AssociationIndustryToday’s MIDI 2.0 Studio at Music China 2026 Part 5 of five. The MIDI Association at Music China, Shanghai, 28–31 October 2026. The fourth face of the Lab 99 booth made a claim and then had to back it up, which is the best kind of trade show…

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The MIDI AssociationIndustryMIDI 2.0 Innovative Products at Music China 2026: Sleight and MIDISketch Part 4 of five. The MIDI Association at Music China, Shanghai, 28–31 October 2026. One face of the Lab 99 booth was given to MIDI 2.0 Innovative Products: not the specification, and not the shipping…

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The MIDI AssociationIndustryThe MIDI Innovation Awards at Music China 2026 Part 3 of five. The MIDI Association at Music China, Shanghai, 28–31 October 2026. One face of the Lab 99 booth was given over to the MIDI Innovation Awards: this year’s entries, a QR code to the…

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The MIDI AssociationIndustryMusic Accessibility and MIDI In Music Education at Music China 2026 Part 2 of five. The MIDI Association at Music China, Shanghai, 28–31 October 2026. Two adjacent displays on the Lab 99 booth were given to the two sides of the same question: who gets to make music…

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The MIDI AssociationIndustryHall N2, Music X and Lab 99: The MIDI Association at Music China 2026 Part 1 of five. Music China, Shanghai New International Expo Centre, 28–31 October 2026. Music China returned to the Shanghai New International Expo Centre from 28 to 31 October 2026, and once again…

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The MIDI AssociationIndustryGearCon 2026: Accessible Instruments Take Center Stage at Tileyard London Photos courtesy of Kate Rounding and zen (RIX Inclusive Institute) Wrapping up another fantastic year of GearCon , London’s favourite hands-on music gear revue, where musical devices from around the…

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The MIDI AssociationIndustryMaking music technology more accessible: takeaways from ADCx Gather 2026 October 19, 2026 Jay Pocknell Jay Pocknell from Sound Without Sight posted an article on Sound Without Sight about the the Accessibility meetup at ADC-X.

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The MIDI AssociationIndustryMIDI and the Visual Stage: The State of MIDI Control of Video and Graphics MIDI was designed to contol notes between synthesziers in 1983. Four decades on, a sizeable slice of what it actually controls is light — video clips, camera feeds, shaders, LED strips, DMX fixtures…

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.