From Passion Project to Open Ecosystem: How MIDI Guide and Condukt Built a 300-Synth Infrastructure

The launch of Condukt completes a remarkable seven-year journey that reveals how music technology infrastructure is increasingly built by communities rather than corporations. Born from developers' desire to create a universal MIDI controller for iOS, MIDI Guide evolved into a 300-instrument database with 52 contributors—now the open standard that hardware makers and app developers depend on.