Add in a built-in synth and sample engine and its own audio outs and you’ve a musical instrument that defies description ...

Or attaching a few buttons to a Raspberry Pi. Or making the biggest MIDI grid controller the world has ever know. Great! The first and most important engineering question is; how do you read all ...

Last year, French manufacturer Arturia released the third iteration of its MIDI controller keyboard, KeyLab, in 49- and 61-key versions, bolstering the range with a new keybed, redesigned interface ...

For an older standard, MIDI has remarkable staying power in the ... but its age does show a little bit. Sending control change (CC) messages, for example, was originally designed to fit within ...