When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that ...

M-Audio, a provider of digital audio solutions, has announced the Radium keyboard, the latest in their line of Midiman Keystation USB MIDI controllers for electronic musicians. The USB keyboards let ...

This Design Idea uses the FT232BM from Future Technology Devices International, a USB-to-UART interface IC that you need not program, to interface a USB port to the MIDI ...

A USB MIDI controller is the perfect foil for your computer-based DAW setup - just plug it in and you should be good to go - but what if you want to use it with your hardware synths and it doesn’t ...

The Yamaha DX7 was released in 1983, with its FM synthesis engine completely revolutionizing the electronic music world at the time. It didn’t come cheap, and still doesn’t today, but we are blessed ...

Technology has done a lot for music, but perhaps the most interesting recent development is the widespread availability of music-production tools for the average home computer. One of the most ...

Emagic is shipping their EMI 6|2 m Interface, a USB audio and MIDI interface for mobile recording that’s compatible with USB-equipped Mac and Windows systems. About the size of a videocassette, the ...

[Joonas] became frustrated with cheap but crappy MIDI to USB converters, and the better commercial ones were beyond his budget. He used a Teensy LC to build one for himself and it did the job quite ...

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