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Sunday January 28, The MIDI Showcase (Booth 10302 at the front of Hall A)
will feature:
Sunday January 28, 11:30 AM
The Guthman Musical Instrument competition, The MIDI Innovation Awards and Music Tectonics joining forces to host an Innovation Meetup at Winter NAMM 2024.
Sunday January 28, 1:00 PM
Join members of the Standard MIDI File working group as they discuss the already adopted MIDI Clip file format and the new work being done on a container format to include MIDI, notation, audio and video together for exchanges between products and applications
Sunday January 28, 2:00 PM
Cory Pesaturo (“C Pez”) is revolutionizing the Accordion. The only person to ever win the trio of World Championships on Acoustic, Digital & Jazz Accordion.
Sunday January 28, The MIDI Showcase (Booth 10302 at the front of Hall A)
will feature:
Sunday January 28, 11:30 AM
The Guthman Musical Instrument competition, The MIDI Innovation Awards and Music Tectonics joining forces to host an Innovation Meetup at Winter NAMM 2024.
Sunday January 28, 1:00 PM
Join members of the Standard MIDI File working group as they discuss the already adopted MIDI Clip file format and the new work being done on a container format to include MIDI, notation, audio and video together for exchanges between products and applications
Sunday January 28, 2:00 PM
Cory Pesaturo (“C Pez”) is revolutionizing the Accordion. The only person to ever win the trio of World Championships on Acoustic, Digital & Jazz Accordion.






![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)



