Gerhard Lengeling

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Gerhard Lengeling (born February 20, 1959 ) is a pioneer in the field of programming music software and is considered one of the most active and influential developers.

Life

Gerhard Lengeling is trained as a surgeon ; he studied medicine at the University of Hamburg and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD.

Through his acquaintance with later competitor Karl Steinberg , the hobby programmer got to know the basics of developing sequencer software and from 1982 onwards he devoted himself more and more to this topic. He developed the programs Supertrack and later together with Chris Adam Scoretrack for the Commodore 64 . Creator (a pattern-oriented sequencer ) and Notator SL (a creator expanded to include sheet music printing and editing) followed on the much more powerful Atari ST hardware platform . Lengeling and Adam entered into a distribution partnership with two owners of a Hamburg music store. They then founded the company C-LAB Soft- und Hardware GmbH. Sven Junge (née Kindel) became the production and sales manager .

In 1992, Lengeling and Adam ended their collaboration with the two owners of C-LAB. Since they wanted to keep the naming rights, Lengeling and Adam founded the company Emagic with Sven Junge, based in Rellingen near Hamburg . Other C-LAB employees followed them. Under the new company name (Notator) Logic was developed for Atari ST , Mac and later also Windows , as well as numerous other software and hardware products that had an influence on the development of the entire industry.

After Apple took over Emagic Soft- und Hardware GmbH in July 2002, Gerhard Lengeling became the senior director for music applications.

In January 2003, Berklee College of Music presented him with the 6th Annual Golden Clef Award for his services to the music industry and music education .

He has lived in Silicon Valley since 2003 and is the keyboard player for the band "TinMan" in his free time.