Horn® Enables 'May is MIDI Month' Webinars on MIDI 2.0 for The MIDI Association
Horn® is providing the communications technology to MIDI.org for a series of 'May is MIDI Month' webinars. Horn is a unique technology for web conferencing that includes audio, video, chat and more. MIDI.org has leveraged Horn to engage with their 18,000 member base in live panels as well as for leadership communications.
TROY, Va., May 8, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Horn® (https://www.horn.co) today announced that it is providing the communications technology to MIDI.org for a series of 'May is MIDI Month' webinars focused on MIDI 2.0 beginning May 4th, 2019. Horn is a unique technology for web conferencing that includes audio, video, chat and more. MIDI.org has been using Horn to engage with their 18,000 member base in live panels as well as for leadership communications for several years.
The 'May is MIDI Month' webinars will take place at https://www.midi.org/live and they are being recorded and available for later viewing.
https://www.midi.org/live is a Horn channel.
For MIDI.org, Horn provided an easily-integrated website widget that allows for webinars with dozens of panelists and thousands of viewers and listeners that is easily managed. Of interest to audio, video and broadcast professionals and musicians (MIDI.org's member base) is that each presenters audio track and video channel is recorded as discrete and separate files and uploaded directly to the channel owners' cloud storage, allowing for clean and effortless post-production of presentations and seminars.
"The easy web implementation, in addition to Horn's very high audio quality, low data bandwidth usage and discrete individual channel recording has made our implementation fast and painless," said Athan Billias, Digital Marketing Strategy Manager, Yamaha Corporation of America, MIDI Manufacturers Association Board Member, and Member of The MIDI Association advisory board. "We look forward to putting Horn's scalability and panel functionality to the test as we expand our use beyond meetings to mass MIDI education and creator sessions with many presenters and potentially thousands of audience members."
Lawrence T. Levine, Horn's CEO said, "We've engineered Horn to provide functions audio engineers will treasure – such as the native ability to record individual channels for each panelist on a multi-presenter session – when they have to mix down for syndication."
To participate in the 'May is MIDI Month' webinars, go to https://www.midi.org/live and log in using Social Sign On with any one of the following social media platforms: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Yahoo, Github, and Weibo.
Webinar schedule:
Controllerism
May 4 at 3 PM Pacific Time
A panel discussion with the people who created the Controllerism movement about how MIDI influences the world of Digital DJs.
Panelists:
Kelvin Chu, Laura Escude, Sam Gribbens, Moldover, Huston Singletary, Kate Stone, Shawn Wasabi
Guthman Musical Instrument Design Competition 2019
May 11 at 7PM Pacific Time
All three winners of the 2019 Guthman Musical Design Competition were MIDI Controllers. Check out Geoshred, AirSticks, and The Glide as well as other unique MIDI instruments. This panel discussion will also include live and video performances from the participants.
Panelists:
Jordan Rudess, Pat Scandalis, Alon Ilsar, Keith Groover, Qianqian Jin, Nathan Asman
The Early History of MIDI -1981-1989
May 18 at 3 PM Pacific Time
The people who originally created MIDI discuss the turbulent early days of MIDI before it became the established standard it is today.
This webinar will truly be historic.
Panelists:
Anne Graham, Brian Vincik, Chris Meyer, Dave Smith, David Mash, Domenic Milano, Jeff Rona, Michelle Moog Koussa, Paul Lehrman, Ryan Alexander Diduck
MIDI 2.0- The Future of MIDI
May 25 at 10 AM Pacific Time
We will be releasing details about MIDI 2.0 in weekly Blog articles and MIDI Message Newsletters in May. On May 25, MIDI Association members will have a chance to meet the team that put the new specification together. The members of the MMA MIDI-CI and Protocol working groups will explain their vision for the future of MIDI. MIDI.org will also be soliciting questions about MIDI 2.0 from TMA members in advance of the webinar.
Panelists:
Amos Gaynes, Andrew Mee, Chris Grigg, Dave Starkey, Florian Bome, Franz Detro, Mike Kent, Phil Burk, Rick Cohen, Tom White
Horn® is the live communications platform that bridges the communication chasm by getting people talking again - over the internet. In development for over five years (http://www.horn.co) is implementable through an easily generated website widget which allows site owners/users to convert web text chat traffic to voice instantaneously. Sign-in is seamless, with Horn® only requiring a Facebook, Twitter, Google, Reddit, Weibo, Yahoo or GitHub account. A customized specific subscriber login capability is also available for white-label implementations. Learn more at http://www.horn.co.
Recently three MIDI Manufacturers Association member companies released important MIDI Operating System support updates that will significantly expand the number of MIDI-enabled products worldwide to approximately 2.6 billion devices, including: Apple (Bluetooth MIDI), Google (MIDI in Android M, and Web MIDI in Chrome) and Microsoft (Windows 10).
Levine concluded that, "We are excited to have Horn play a part in the mission to educate and communicate the benefits of MIDI interactivity and interoperability to the millions of people who use MIDI not only in their musical instruments, but also on their computers, tablets and cell phones."
About The MIDI Association (TMA)
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