MIDI Association Announces MIDI 2.0 Prototyping (hackaday.com)

Posted by msmash on Sunday January 20, 2019 @01:00PM from the marching-forward dept.

MIDI was introduced at the 1983 NAMM show as a means to connect various electronic instruments together. Since then, our favorite five-pin DIN has been stuffed into Radio Shack keyboards, MPCs, synths, eurorack modules, and DAWs. The standard basically hasn't changed. Now, ahead of the 2019 NAMM show, the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) in conjunction with AMEI, Japan's MIDI Association, are announcing MIDI 2.0. From a report: The new features include, "auto-configuration, new DAW/web integrations, extended resolution, increased expressiveness, and tighter timing." It will retain backwards-compatibility with MIDI 1.0 devices. The new initiative, like the release of the first MIDI spec, is a joint venture between manufacturers of musical instruments. The company lineup on this press release is as follows: Ableton/Cycling '74, Art+Logic, Bome Software, Google, imitone, Native Instruments, Roland, ROLI, Steinberg, TouchKeys, and Yamaha.

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Re:Summary is in error. by dunkelfalke · 2019-01-20 15:14 · Score: 3, Funny

Field marshal MIDI?

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Re:About time! by Anne+Thwacks · 2019-01-20 21:55 · Score: 3, Funny

Why fix what isn't broken?
Because you are Apple?

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can't wait by sad_ · 2019-01-20 23:45 · Score: 3, Funny

for a new Atari ST with midi 2.0 ports!

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