midi

fcbnerd is a command-line tool that lets macOS users bind shell commands to MIDI messages from foot controllers like the Behringer FCB1010, enabling custom automation and shortcuts.

This article provides a technical description of SMPTE/EBU timecode synchronization systems, focusing on the Bi-Phase Mark LTC timecode and related standards, and discusses its application in music technology with a mention of the TS1 tape sync product.

Ardour 9.8 introduces key and scale visualization for MIDI tracks, improves session recovery and clip recording, and adds an arpeggiation option in MIDI tools.

A developer trained a 125M-parameter transformer model to autocomplete piano performances in real-time on-device using MIDI data and DPO post-training, and released the RollTab app for iOS.

ChordViz is a tool that lets you build your own music visualizer for MIDI and audio.

Suno releases Studio 2.0, adding MIDI support, automation, a context-aware chatbot, built-in effects, and custom effect creation to push its AI music tool closer to a full digital audio workstation.

bipluk is a browser-based SysEx librarian that lets vintage synth owners back up, organize, and search patches without installing drivers, positioned as a cheaper alternative to desktop MIDI-OX-style tools.

This preprint introduces hierarchical self-supervised world models for music co-creation agents, with fast CPU-friendly models and a live demo for MIDI inpainting and generation.

MuScriptor can convert Suno AI songs into MIDI files, enabling finer control and import into DAWs like FL Studio.

Kyutai releases MuScriptor, an open model for multi-instrument transcription that converts any music recording into MIDI notes, similar to OpenAI Whisper for speech.

Kyutai Labs and MireloAI release MuScriptor, the best open model for multi-instrument transcription to date, which transcribes recordings from any genre into individual instrument MIDI tracks.

MuScriptor is an open-source model for multi-instrument music transcription, capable of transcribing recordings into MIDI notes for each instrument without prior knowledge of the instruments present.

The article explains the timing challenges of using the Web MIDI API to communicate with vintage 1980s synthesizers like the Yamaha DX7, and provides techniques for pacing data and parsing vendor-specific SysEx formats.

PianoKontext generates variable-length expressive piano performances from deadpan MIDI scores by aligning audio and MIDI in latent space using Dynamic Time Warping and flow matching with DiT blocks.

A new open-source tool called Steam Haptics Singer lets the Steam Controller and Steam Deck play MIDI music through their haptic motors, enabling fun custom sound effects and songs like Doom's theme.

A developer shares a weekend hack using OpenAI Codex to rapidly build a MIDI keyboard watcher and practice web app in under five minutes.