This slide is used at Breakout session in TPAC 2013. Talking about the activity of Web Audio API and Web MIDI API in Japan.

1. TAPC Breakout Session
Entertain Web with
Musical Instruments
AMEI Web MIDI WG
Yamaha Corporation
Ryoya KAWAI
google.com/+RyoyaKawai

2. About Music
● What the Music does?
○ Create Good Mood
○ Provide healings
○ Make a deep impression
These are usually give us much bigger
impression with visual contents.

3. Today’s AIM
● To Share
○ about MIDI
○ Web Music Community’s activities
○ Web MIDI API Applications
● To Duscuss
○ How can we build entertainment Web with Music?
○ What do we do the Next?

4. Connect to Musical Instruments
● Web MIDI API
○ allow browser to manipulate the musical instruments
directly
○ protocol is MIDI
http://
MIDI !!

5. What is the MIDI?

6. What is the MIDI?
● MIDI
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Musicl Instrument Digital Interface
Protocol between Digitil Musical Instruments
8bit words(1byte)
transmitted serially at 31.25kbps
16 channels in one cable
Technical Grammy Award 2013

7. Important point about MIDI
● has velocity
○ Not only on/off but it has velocity
● easy to create sequence data
○ as known as Standard MIDI file
● Not music use only
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Control on/off with one more parameter

8. Where is the MIDI used?
● Music
○ between Digital Musical Instruments
○ between Computer & Digital Musical Instruments
■ Control synthesizer from computer
■ Play software synthesizer from MIDI keyboard
○ Remote Live
● Others
○ Show Control(MSC: MIDI Show Control)
■ Univarsal Studio: Warer World
■ Bellagio: fountain show

9. Market Volume
● Market: Music Industory (in US Dollar)
○ All: about 1 trillion (WorldWide)
■ MIDI Market
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Musical Instrument: 180 billion
● Market: MIDI, but not Music Industory
○ Ringtone: 80 billion
○ KARAOKE: 600 billion
Source: http://goo.gl/D7OJSG

10. MIDI Apps Demo

11. Activities
Web Audio/MIDI API

12. Web Music Developers JP
● Community
○ People who loves not only Music & Music
Instruments, but also loves Web

13. Activity: Web MIDI API
● Chrome + HTML5 Developers Live #8
○ 2087 views (since Sep 12, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcdppXSz2Ms

14. Activity: Web MIDI API (2)
● At Music Conference
hosted by Japan Synthesizer Programmers Association
○ 1500 PV in first 7days (Now: 3100 (in 3 weeks))
http://www.slideshare.net/ryoyakawai/web-midi-api-2013

15. Activity: Web MIDI API
● Web Music Hackathon
○ Champion’s App [URL]
○ Web Audio/MIDI Beginner [URL]
○ Collaborate with other web APIs [URL] [URL]

16. Activity: Web MIDI API
● NSX-1 Application (from Yamaha)
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http://yamaha-webmusic.github.io/nsx1-apps/manual/
Arduino !!
USB-MIDI !!
Miku Hatsune: http://youtu.be/xExy_FCC0PA

17. MIDI Apps Demo

18. Discussion
● How can we build entertainment Web with
Music??
● What should we do the Next?
And also,
the ideas of hackathon are welcome !!!