Craig and I are still working closely together and he is still an important part of the MIDI Association. In fact, he reached out and ask me to chime in here which I am happy to do.
The MIDI Association is a non-profit member-driven trade organization.
We have 102 members which include the large OS Companies (Apple , Google and Microsoft), large musical instrument companies (Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Steinway, Native Instruments, etc.) as well as software companies including most of the main DAW brands (Ableton, Bitwig,Logic, Mark of The Unicorn, Steinberg). The majority of our members are actually smaller companies with revenues under 1 million dollars a year.
Corporate members pay based on annual revenue.
The corporate members elect a Technical Standards Board and an Executive Board. All of the people serve on the boards as volunteers.
Craig mentioned a press release about prototyping and all the details are here on the MIDI.org website.
https://www.midi.org/midi-articles/the-midi-association-announces-midi-2-0-development-tools
As Craig said we try to be a transparent as possible about what we are doing, but do have to abide by our By Laws which state that we cannot publicly discuss details of MIDI specifications until they have received final approval by our members, but if anyone has any questions, feel free to reach out to info@midi.org and we will try to get you whatever information is available for release. Remember we are all volunteers so sometimes it might take a day or to for us to respond.
We are really excited about both MIDI 2.0 and the 40th anniversary of MIDI in 2023!
