MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that enables drastically different music technologies, developed decades apart, to tell each other what to do – ...

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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 ...

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CME and Yamaha are now shipping two new products, announced on Friday at the NAMM music show in Austin, TX. The first product is the WIDI X-8, a full duplex wireless system for MIDI and USB ...

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CME has introduced at the Musikmesse tradeshow in Frankfurt, Germany the WIDI X-8, a full duplex wireless system for MIDI and USB communication. Communicate over a wireless 2.4GHz, the WIDI X-8 ...