Digidesign
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Digidesign is a digital audio company. It was founded in 1984 by Peter Gotcher and Evan Brooks. The company began as a project to raise money for the founders' band, selling EPROM chips for drum machines. It grew to be the leader in digital audio.
Products
Digidesign's flagship software product is Pro Tools, which comes in three variations: Pro Tools HD, Pro Tools LE, and Pro Tools M-Powered.
Pro Tools HD requires a Digidesign TDM system and interface, and is intended for professional recording studios. Pro Tools LE is a complete package intended for home users and some post-production facilities. The package includes the Pro Tools LE software and hardware such as the DIGI001 or DIGI002. Pro Tools M-Powered is simply the Pro Tools application adapted to run on M-Audio hardware, and is generally comparible in power to LE systems.
Digidesign also makes a number of products for the Pro Tools platform, including several software plug-ins. They also manufacture a wide variety of hardware add-ons for Pro Tools, such as audio interfaces, MIDI interfaces, Synchronizers, and control surfaces. Recently they introduced a system for live sound reproduction.
History
- 1984 - Founded as DigiDrums (later DigiDesign) by Gotcher and Brooks.
- 1987 - Digidesign launches the first digital audio workstation system, Sound Tools, for the Apple Macintosh. The company refers to it as "the first tapeless recording studio".
- 1991 - Digidesign renames (and adds NuBus DSP support for) Sound Tools, calling it Pro Tools, marking a significant advance in digital audio. This integrated software and hardware system (digital audio workstation) is among the most popular for audio production for television, music, and film.
- 1995 - Avid Technology NASDAQ: [AVID]
acquires Digidesign. Digidesign now operates as a business unit of Avid.
- 2003 - Avid acquires Bomb Factory's extensive product catalog. These products are now included with Pro Tools systems.
- 2003 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes Digidesign's contribution to audio post production for film with an Oscar.
- 2004 - Avid acquires M-Audio, which now operates as a business unit of Digidesign, but maintains the M-Audio brand name and remains largely distinct from Digidesign.
- 2005 - Avid acquires Wizoo, which now operates as Digidesign's Advanced Instrument Research group (AIR), but remains largely independent, operating out of Germany.
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