Defines an API supporting the MIDI protocol, enabling web applications to enumerate and select MIDI input and output devices on the client system and send and receive MIDI messages.

Documentation

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MIDIAccess
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MIDIConnectionEvent
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MIDIInput

Specification

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 43
• Chrome for Android release 43
• Android WebView release 43

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Positive
• Edge: No signal
• Safari: Negative
• Web Developers: No signals

Owners

• toyoshim@chromium.org
• cwilso@chromium.org

Comments

IE views: Web MIDI API is currently listed as "Not currently planned". However, Web Audio API which is a pre-requisite for a significant chunk of the use cases is in development (https://status.modern.ie/webaudioapi?term=web%20audio)

Last updated on 2020-11-09