Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
The MIDI Association invited the winners of the 2022 MIDI Innovation Awards to join this round table to discuss the evolution of their award winning products, discuss how they work with MIDI and share their thoughts on MIDI 2.0.
Participants:
Krishna Chetan, pitchinnovations.com
Henrik Langer, instrumentsofthings.com
Markus Ruh, musikraken.com
John Dingley, digigurdy.com
Moderated by JB Thiebaut, chair of the MIDI Innovation Awards and Secretary of the MIDI Association
The MIDI Association invited the winners of the 2022 MIDI Innovation Awards to join this round table to discuss the evolution of their award winning products, discuss how they work with MIDI and share their thoughts on MIDI 2.0.
Participants:
Krishna Chetan, pitchinnovations.com
Henrik Langer, instrumentsofthings.com
Markus Ruh, musikraken.com
John Dingley, digigurdy.com
Moderated by JB Thiebaut, chair of the MIDI Innovation Awards and Secretary of the MIDI Association





![3 SMF 2 Container format
The MIDI Project Container File format is intended to deliver multiple tracks of MIDI data and other media. The set of tracks and media used in the file are enumerated and arranged in a Manifest file in XML format.
Media types supported include:
● MIDI Clip Files (for MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0)
● Musical Notation (MusicXML [W3C01] or PDF [ISO01])
● Audio Files
● Video Files
● Lyrics: may be in MIDI Clip Files and/or in Musical Notation files.
● Metadata - XML and MIDI Message
The MIDI Project Container File format has three main use cases.
● Distribution/publishing of content that includes both MIDI and any of the file types listed above
● Data exchange between software and hardware applications that include both MIDI and any of the file types listed above. For example, rich media data exchange between two DAWs from two different companies. 3 SMF 2 Container format](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YGj74eWVVU4/mqdefault.jpg)




