MIDI 2.0 — strategic technology.

MIDI 2.0 is an established industry standard for communication between musical, creative, and interactive systems.

Fountain Coach maintains a machine-readable implementation and related software components. The MIDI Association remains the normative authority; Fountain Coach does not own the standard.

Universal MIDI Packets (UMP)
MIDI-CI
Capability Inquiry
Protocol Negotiation
Property Exchange
Profiles and expressive per-note data
Flex Data
tools and runtime components

The implementation is strategic open infrastructure and an interoperability layer. Hardware interoperability is a separate claim.