The Professional Writing Division MIDI Lab provides students majoring in Contemporary Writing and Production, Composition, Jazz Composition and Song Writing with hands-on access to professional music technology equipment to advance their skill levels and complete course work in their majors. Consisting of 12 fully configured student workstations, a teaching station, and a separate similarly equipped studio for live overdubbing, the lab mirrors the real-world, computer-based MIDI studio of the writing entrepreneur who must utilize rapidly developing technologies in a contemporary professional environment that requires these skills and capabilities.

The Professional Writing Division MIDI Lab is the site of instruction and supervised project work for several courses offered by the Professional Writing Division and is designed to help the writing student meet the challenges of future professional work. This lab embodies the advantages of increasingly sophisticated advances in equipment quality and computing power and the recent increased user-friendliness of this type of equipment. The Professional Writing Division MIDI Lab is a working example of what is possible today in effective yet economical production environments.