The SID chip inside the Commodore 64 and 128 is arguably still the gold standard for chip tunes, and the C64 itself still a decent computer for MIDI sequencing. [Frank Buss] realized most of the MIDI ...

USB Type-C is still a rarity today, but as the year goes on, the new port is going to begin showing up in more and more devices. In anticipation of this, Google has introduced a handful of features in ...

A music technology developer by the name Mitxela (real name Tim Alex Jacobs) has created the world’s “smallest and silliest”, fully functional USB-C MIDI Synth. The miniature creation is made up of a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Zefiro might look like a vape, but it’s a tiny MIDI wind controller compatible with mobile devices and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New look for 2025. OLED display – small but very informative. Full-size MIDI DIN In, Out, and ...

The Musical Instrument Digital Interface has a great acronym that is both nice to say and cleanly descriptive. The standard for talking to musical instruments relies on a serial signal at 31250 bps, ...

Electronic instruments have come a long way since New Order sequenced Blue Monday using binary code. Now it’s all quantised beats, USB-C, and expensive noise-cancelling headphones. And if you’re in ...

The most functional MIDI controllers usually take the form of mixers – the Novation Launch Control XL has been a fine example of this since 2014, and for 2025 we have the Launch Control XL 3. The core ...