MIDI is so deeply woven into the fabric of music technology that many of us barely notice that it’s there, but we’d certainly miss it if it wasn’t. At the 2023 NAMM Show, this most creative of connectivity standards will be celebrating 40 years of hooking up synths, drum machines, samplers and other gear, and the MIDI Association has announced several events to mark this special anniversary.
The most immediately obvious of these will be a MIDI Showcase at the front of Hall A, which will celebrate a wide range of products and innovations relating to MIDI. More than 30 companies will be involved, and there’ll also be demos of MIDI 2.0, the next-generation of the standard.
