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Norah Studio is a creative studio app for exploring and transforming music on Mac, iPad, and iPhone, offering track isolation, tempo/key adjustment, chords, effects, harmonies, and audio/MIDI export, all running on-device.

An unlocked firmware on a Vave MIDI synth sparked a wave of community-built alternative firmware, while Behringer announced new hardware explicitly designed to be open source, citing AI as the enabler for users writing their own firmware — though the Behringer Kick faces backlash for resembling an Akai device.

Teenage Engineering released the EP-35, a battery-powered multi-instrument amp with built-in style-based effects for guitar and vocals, Bluetooth Auracast pairing, and accessories including the amptenna FM radio and the EP-127 KO wireless MIDI pedal, priced at $399.

coopiano 是一个用 C++17 编写的物理建模钢琴合成器开源项目，通过琴槌、琴弦、音板与共鸣模型合成声音，支持 MIDI 文件渲染与 macOS 实时 MIDI 输入，无需任何采样或第三方库。

DuET is a dual-encoder transformer that jointly performs MIDI-to-score transcription and beat tracking to improve timing and duration accuracy in expressive piano performance transcription, achieving large MUSTER error reductions on the Gangqinpu dataset.

Show HN: XY Music Notation — a web-based music notation and playback tool featuring an internal piano soundfont, optional external MIDI support, and playback controls.

An experiment in which GPT-6 Astra Ultra, given a single ~3K-word prompt and no follow-up steering, autonomously produced a two-minute Eurodance song and Blender music video with editable MIDI, stems, scripts, and automated quality checks. The write-up highlights the value of specifying editable deliverables and checkable constraints up front, while noting the agent iterated internally (e.g., aligning lyrics with phonemes, fixing geometry) without using Suno, Midjourney, or Sora.

Tonefold 是一款免费开源的 AI 音乐作曲工具，支持 macOS 和 Windows：向 Claude 描述一首歌，即可在钢琴卷帘中获得可逐音符编辑的和弦、旋律、贝斯和鼓，并导出 MIDI、WAV 和分轨文件。

Dutch designer Merijn Straathof created a web-based interactive instrument from Richie Hawtin's techno album DE9: Closer to the Edit, allowing users to play and manipulate 120 original loops for free.

This article compares Roland SC-55, Roland Sound Canvas VA, Yamaha MU80, and Yamaha S-YXG50 sound modules for MS-DOS gaming, evaluating their General MIDI performance and accuracy.

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.

MIDIpad is a macOS application that transforms game controllers into expressive MIDI controllers for use in digital audio workstations, featuring chord and drum sequencer modes.

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.