For an older standard, MIDI has remarkable staying power in the music industry. It remains the de facto digital interface between computers and instruments thanks to its open nature, but its age do… ...

There’s a better way, and that way is portable USB MIDI controllers. [Johan] wanted a pocket-sized woodwind MIDI controller, but all the existing ones he found were too big and bulky to carry ...

Arturia's KeyStep Pro is a near-perfect MIDI controller for hardware synths. ... There’s no transport controls for your DAW and a limited number of knobs, which need to be manually mapped.