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MIDI 2.0 Adopted at Winter NAMM 2020
At the recent Winter NAMM convention in Anaheim California, the MIDI Manufacturers Association voted to formally adopt the MIDI 2.0 specification that's been in development for over a decade. Art+Logic has been involved with this effort for the past several years as...
How to Spot a Job Offer Scam
It recently came to our attention that someone has been using our company name as part of a job scam. While we’re not entirely sure what they expect to get out of scamming people with a fake job offer, we can share with you an anatomy of a job offer scam that affected...
What is MIDI 2.0, and what does it mean for musicians and producers?
From musicradar.com: We chat to Art+Logic's Brett Porter to find out what makes this new interfacing spec tick. It’s been an essential building block of how music is made for about 35 years now, but would you be surprised to learn that the MIDI standard - the protocol...
Talking about Non-Destructive Testing With Art+Logic’s Bob Bajoras
Bob Bajoras, President of Art+Logic, recently joined Neil Hughes on his Tech Talks Daily Podcast to discuss the relationship between software and hardware and the recent IoT truce struck between Google, Apple, and Amazon: The recent news that Amazon, Apple, and Google...
Introducing MIDI 2.0
From JUCE.COM: If you've ever created music on a computer, it is likely that you have used the MIDI specification. Created in the early 80s as a protocol for synchronizing musical events in electronic instruments and computers, MIDI has been a staple for musicians...
What Will MIDI 2.0 Mean for Musicians?
From Reverb.com: In many ways, MIDI 1.0 has changed a lot since the specification made its public debut in 1983. You can measure the progress by how MIDI-compatible instruments connect, the types of devices and software programs that employ it, and how much easier the...
Q&A: Amazon, Apple, and Google to create a smart home standard
From DigitalJournal.com: The recent news that Amazon, Apple, and Google are working together to create a new standard for smart home communication is a rare display of unity amongst the giants of our interconnected worlds. Bob Bajoras, President of Art+Logic looks...
What we’re reading at Art+Logic, 2019 edition (and maybe more gift ideas?)
As we did last year over the holidays and then again over the summer, we thought we would share with you a list of the books that we're reading at Art+Logic. Maybe you'll find something for yourself in this list (or for the developer or designer in your life). So...
What will MIDI 2.0 mean for you? We ask one of the people developing it
From MusicTech.com: MIDI, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface conceived by Roland’s Ikutaro Kakehashi and Dave Smith (and others), is one of the most familiar acronyms in the studio vernacular. And, considering it’s been in commercial use since 1982, the standard...
From Spreadsheets to Websites
Businesses are now facing an ever-growing amount of data which is pushing the boundaries of what can be done with spreadsheets and macros. Transactions are expected to happen at a faster pace, involving multiple users from different departments in varying locations. More information is being tracked and reports should be dynamically generated based on what’s happening – right now. Today’s smart businesses strive for instant and accurate results.
Making Spectrograms in JUCE
Spectrogram of swelling trumpet sound Art+Logic's Incubator project has made a lot of progress. In a previous post I mentioned that Dr. Scott Hawley's technique to classify audio involved converting audio to an image and using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to...
Art+Logic at ADC
Next week (18-20 November) I'll be attending the annual Audio Developer Conference in London. On Tuesday November 19th at 16:00 I'll be part of a team providing the first public details about the forthcoming MIDI 2.0 standard. The ADC is usually live-streamed on...