Toontrack Music has released EZplayer Pro, the follow-up to their percussive MIDI engine EZplayer Free.
EZplayer pro is a VST, AU and RTAS plug in for Mac and PC with extended Map Wrapping capabilities between major drum sampler formats in the market. (FXpansion’s BFD 1&2, Digidesign’s Strike, NIs Battery, EZdrummer and Superior Drummer in addition to […]

Michael Una will conduct a MIDI robotic percussion workshop on Friday, May 2nd at Bent Festival Minneapolis.
Participants will receive free MSA-R kits donated by Highly Liquid. The workshop is free and open to all on a first-come, first-served basis.

xoxos has introduced Hyperion MIDI VST, a semi-modular MIDI processor suitable for a wide variety of tuned algorithmic applications. LFOs and counters are used to easily create dynamic MIDI sequences and change them on the fly, or to modulate other components of the architecture.
Hyperion produces glissandos or subtly varying sequences for up to three parts […]

H-Pi Instruments is now shippping the TBX1 - a MIDI box designed to make custom keyboard tunings as easy as pushing a button.
Attach this little box to a compatible synth and you can make every key play any pitch you want. It comes preloaded with 128 tunings for you to try out, and it stores […]

Políssonos is a free loop-based MIDI sequencer for Mac & PC designed to “elicit the relation between the rhythmical division of time and the shapes of polygons.”
A simple midi sequencer at its core, Políssonos is mainly a proposal for a loop orientated alternative to the traditional “piano roll” interface.

The MidiTron is a MIDI to real-world interface designed to simplify the process of creating sensor and robotics based electronic art projects. It is easily user configurable and provides 20 terminals of digital and analog inputs and outputs in any combination.
MidiTron is bi-directional. Sensor inputs are converted to MIDI output messages, and MIDI input messages […]

MIDIplugins is a massive database of - you guessed it - MIDI plugins.
The site is on the barebones side, but offers a one-page list of hundreds of plugins.

I’ve seen tons of virtual keyboards before, but never a commercial virtual MIDI keyboard.
Tanager Audioworks’ Chirp is a new application that turns your computer keyboard into a MIDI keyboard controller…..so you can play notes on your computer keyboard.
Chirp combines a photo?realistic keyboard interface, ten programmable trigger pads and several controls for easily entering pitch bend, […]

Steinberg and Yamaha have introduced a new MIDI controller for Cubase, the CC121 Advanced Integration Controller.
Features :

Advanced Integration controller knob with ‘point and control’ support: controls any visual Cubase 4 parameter, internal FX setting or VSTi parameter using mouse pointer selection
Instant plug and play with ‘Cubase Ready’ LED – no additional setup or parameter […]

Moog has introduced the Multi-Pedal, a programmable four channel CV/MIDI foot pedal controller.
It has four analog control outputs, MIDI In & Out and USB connectivity (MIDI over USB). It can transmit controller information on up to 4 MIDI channels and CV outputs simultaneously.
Each CV output can be programmed individually. Signals can be foot pedal controlled […]

Tyler Freeman, aka odbol, liked drumming on his pants so much that he added MIDI triggers, hooked his a** up to a computer and created Drumpants.
DrumPants are a set of pants that enable the wearer to produce drum sounds by hitting various parts of the pants with his hands. The wearer thusly becomes a […]

Roger Linn Designs has released the AdrenaLinn III, the successor to Linn’s Adrenalinn II, which featured guitar effects beat-synced to an on-board drum machine. Adrenalinn II owners can buy an upgrade kit to take their machine to III status.
“AdrenaLinn III provides a guitar modeler, plus a wide variety of unique modulation and delay effects,” said […]

Virtuasonic’s MIJOY PRO 2 is a VSTi MIDI plug-in that allows you to use a joystick or gamepad as a MIDI controller. It can be used to control other VSTi instruments, FX plug-ins and MIDI hardware in real-time.
Here’s a video of the Mijoy Pro in action:

MIJOY PRO 2 requires a Windows VST Host able to […]

Innovative Music Systems has announced that the Ensemble Edition of their flagship product intelliScore is now available. IntelliScore Ensemble listens to prerecorded or live music (in WAV, MP3, WMA, or CD format) comprised of several different instruments and helps create a multiple-track MIDI (.mid) file containing the notes played, broken down by instrument. The MIDI […]

Alesis has introduced a cool new drum pad controller/drum machine, the Performance Pad. It’s a drum machine, an electronic percussion instrument and you can use it as a MIDI input device.
Performance Pad features eight velocity-sensitive drum pads and a built-in electronic drum machine with professional sounds and features.
Features:

8 natural feeling, velocity-sensitive drum pads with Dynamic […]