Steinberg Media Technologies

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Steinberg Media Technologies

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founding 1984
Seat At the straw house 31

20097 Hamburg Germany

management President: Andreas Stelling

Managing Directors: Hirofumi Yamashita, Yoshiyuki Tsugawa

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Website www.steinberg.net
As of November 20, 2016

The Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is an in Hamburg based company with offices in Siegburg and London , in whose product range software and equipment for digital production and editing of music find for professional use.

Company history

The company was founded in 1984 by the musician and studio technician Karl "Charlie" Steinberg and the piano player Manfred Rürup , who at that time only had one product on the market: a simple 16-track MIDI sequencer package called the Multitrack Recorder. At the beginning the company traded under the name Steinberg Research GbR , later it was called Steinberg Soft- und Hardware GmbH for a while and operated for a few years under the name Steinberg North America, Inc. in the United States . In 1999 Steinberg Media Technologies AG had sales of DM 25 million and in 2000 it had 180 employees. A planned IPO on the Neuer Markt failed. In 2001 the company had 130 employees and a turnover of 20 million DM. In January 2003 the Steinberg brand was taken over by the US company Pinnacle Systems , where Steinberg was able to maintain its Cubase product range largely independently . At the end of 2004, Pinnacle announced the sale of Steinberg to Yamaha , which has remained the parent company to date.

In 2014 Steinberg celebrated 30 years of success with more than 1.5 million users worldwide and a range of award-winning products for music and media production.

In 2012, Steinberg took over the previous development team behind the Sibelius notation software to start developing a new, professional scoring software called Dorico.

Product history

Steinberg's first product was the MIDI - sequencer Steinberg Pro 16 for the Commodore 64 . Two years later Steinberg released his Pro-24 software, which included new functions such as 24 MIDI tracks, professional scoring, quantization and editing of MIDI parameters such as velocity. The editing options also included the notation of the score (introduced in version 2.0) and a grid editor in the step sequencer for drums. Pro 24 was also ported to the Commodore Amiga , but was never as successful as the Atari version due to the lack of MIDI support.

After intensive research and development, Steinberg presented the Cubase 1.0 software, a digital audio workstation for studio use, or DAW for short, in 1989 and ended the development of Pro 24. The first version of Cubase was characterized by the introduction of the MROS protocol ( MIDI Real-time Operating System), an early predecessor of the Steinberg / Propellerhead ReWire system, which enabled the transfer of musical data between programs.

In 1991 Steinberg released Cubase Audio for Macintosh and a year later a version for Windows 3.1.

In 1992 Steinberg added further audio functions to the Cubase software and named it Cubase Audio - the concept of MIDI - and audio recording became accessible to a wider group of users.

In 1996 the engineers at Steinberg developed the Virtual Studio Technology (VST) and integrated it into the Cubase Engine, which is the first native software to contain a real-time studio environment with equalizers , effects, mixing and automation. In 1997 the VST implementation also followed for Windows.

In 1995 the audio editing and mastering software WaveLab for Windows appeared; This followed in 2010 for Mac. WaveLab allows you to edit audio as a single file, as a series of files, or as a multi-track montage. It now fully supports VST-2 and VST-3 plug-ins for audio processing and is used in mastering or for creating podcasts. Cheaper versions with a limited range of functions are available under the names WaveLab Elements and WaveLab LE .

At the NAMM in 2000, Steinberg presented his new high-end media production system Nuendo , which was worked on for four years. Nuendo supported higher sample rates for 5.1 surround production a year before other DAWs. Subsequently, some of the leading producers and engineers in the field of surround sound began to work with Nuendo during this time , which helped the software to gain greater acceptance.

A year later, in 2001, another product followed, the virtual sampler HALion, whose name is based on the HAL 9000 computer from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey .

In the same year, The Grand, a virtual piano software with a VST-based audio engine, is also launched.

Cubase SX is released in August 2002. A year later, the second version of Cubase SX followed, as well as an OS X version, a slimmer version in the form of Cubase SL and an important upgrade to the high-end media production system Nuendo 2. The revised Cubase SX version also includes the newly developed audio engine from Nuendo 2, plus features for media composers and functions from Cubase VST.

With the growing popularity of mobile devices, Steinberg released the Cubasis app for iOS in 2013, a fully featured DAW for iPads with plug-ins, full audio and MIDI recording and editing, and many other professional features. The app also creates standalone applications such as the Nanologue Synth and LoopMash.

On October 19, 2016, after almost four years of development, Steinberg released Dorico, his first professional notation software. This was named after the music engraver Valerio Dorico from the late 15th century.

In 2017, Steinberg made the Cubasis 2 iOS app available to its customers as a free update. In addition to some new features such as Audiobus and Inter-App Audio, 24 inputs and outputs, higher sampling rates, support for MIDI Clock, Bluetooth, AirPlay and HDMI, Bluetooth MIDI, MiniSampler and 64-bit support, the user Interface has been almost completely revised in this version.

Steinberg VST

As part of the development of his flagship, the Cubase sequencer , Steinberg defined the VST interface (Virtual Studio Technology) in 1996 , by means of which external programs can be integrated as virtual instruments that can be played via MIDI. VST simulates a real-time studio environment with EQs , effects, mixing, and automation and has become a quasi-standard that is supported by many other audio editing programs.

Initially developed only for Macintosh, Steinberg Cubase VST for the PC followed a year later and established VST and the Audio Stream Input / Output Protocol ( ASIO ) as open standards that enabled third-party providers to develop plug-ins and audio hardware. A development environment can be obtained from Steinberg. ASIO ensures that the delay caused by the audio hardware remains as short as possible when the sounds are output, in order to enable hardware manufacturers to provide specialized drivers. ASIO has established itself as the standard for audio drivers.

Products

software

  • Cubase (AI / LE / Elements / Artist / Pro) - Product line for Atari ST , Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows
  • Nuendo (Live)
  • WaveLab (Elements / Pro) - audio editing and mastering software
  • Dorico (Elements / Pro) - a music notation program
  • Sequel
  • My MP3 pro - application for reading, encoding, editing and burning files in MP3 and MP3PRO formats (This product has been withdrawn from the market.)
  • Cubase iC Pro - mobile app for remote control of Cubase
  • LoopMash - mobile version based on the loop synthesizer, including LoopMash Free, LoopMash and LoopMash HD (This product has been withdrawn from the market.)
  • Nanologue - mobile version based on the Steinberg synthesizer Retrologue (currently only available for iPad; status: 12/2015)
  • dspMixFX - mobile app for remote control of the DSP functionalities of UR interfaces (currently only available for iPad; status: 12/2015)
  • VST Connect (SE / Pro / Performer) - remote recording solution for PC, Mac and iPad
  • SpectraLayers Pro 6 - Spectral Editor

VST instruments

  • HALion (SE / Sonic) - virtual sampling and sound design system
  • HALion Symphonic Orchestra
  • Hypersonic - from 2010 as a new development under the product name "HALion Sonic"
  • Groove Agent - electronic and acoustic drums
  • The Grand - virtual piano
  • Padshop (Pro) - granular synthesizer
  • Retrologue - analog synthesizer
  • Dark Planet - dark sounds for cinematic and electronic music
  • Hypnotic Dance - Synth-based dance sounds
  • Triebwerk sounds for electro, techno and house
  • Iconica - orchestral sound library, recorded at Funkhaus Berlin

hardware

  • AXR4 - 28x24 Thunderbolt 2 audio interface with 32-bit integer recording and RND SILK
  • UR824 - 24x24 USB 2.0 audio interface with 8 × D-PREs, 24-bit / 192 kHz support and JetPLL
  • CC121 - DAW controller; specially developed for Cubase production environments
  • CI2 - audio interface with USB power supply and integrated controller
  • MR816 CSX - FireWire interface with I / O equipment and integrated DSP FX
  • MR816 X - FireWire interface with I / O equipment and integrated DSP chip
  • UR44 - 66x4 USB 2.0 audio interface with 4 × D-PREs, 24-bit / 192 kHz support and MIDI I / O
  • UR22mkII - 2 × 2 USB 2.0 audio interface with 2 x D-PRE and 192 kHz support
  • UR12 - 2x2 USB 2.0 audio interface with 1x D-PREs and 24-bit / 192 kHz support
  • Key - License Control Device for Steinberg software - dongle
  • eLicenser - License Control Management for Steinberg Software - Dongle

Older products

Music software

VST instruments

  • Plex
  • D'cota
  • Hypersonic
  • X-phraze
  • Model-E
  • Virtual guitarist
  • Virtual bassist

hardware

  • MIDEX-8 - USB-MIDI-Interface
  • MIDEX-3 - USB-MIDI interface
  • MIDEX + - Atari MIDI interface
  • Steinberg Amiga MIDI Interface
  • Steinberg Media Interface 4 (MI4) - USB-MIDI interface
  • Avalon 16 DA Converter - AD converter for Atari
  • SMP-24 - SMPTE / MIDI processor
  • Timelock - SMPTE processor
  • Topaz - Computer controlled recorder

history

date product operating system
1984 Steinberg Pro 16 Commodore 64
1986 Steinberg Pro 24 Commodore Amiga
1989 Cubase 1.0 Atari
1990 Cubase 1.0 macintosh
1990 Cubase 2.0 Atari
1991 Cubase audio macintosh
1992 Cubase audio Windows 3.1
1992 Cubase 3.0 Atari
1995 WaveLab Windows
1996 Virtual Studio Technology (VST) -
2000 Nuendo Windows 98 , Windows NT , Windows 2000
2002 WaveLab 4 -
2003 Nuendo 2 Mac OS X 10.2 ,
2006 Cubase 4 Mac OS X 10.4 , Mac OS X 10.5 , Windows XP , Windows Vista
2009 Cubase 5 Mac OS X 10.5 , Mac OS X 10.6 , Mac OS X 10.7 , Windows XP , Windows Vista , Windows 7
2010 WaveLab Macintosh , Windows XP
2010 Nuendo 5 Mac OS X 10.5 , Mac OS X 10.6 , Mac OS X 10.7 , Mac OS X 10.8 , Windows XP , Windows Vista , Windows 7 , Windows 8
2011 Cubase 6 Mac OS X 10.5 , Mac OS X 10.6 , Mac OS X 10.7 , Mac OS X 10.8 , Windows 7 , Windows 8
2013 Nuendo 6 OS X 10.7 , macOS 10.8 , macOS 10.9 , Windows 7 , Windows 8 , Windows 8.1
2014 Cubase 8 OS X Yosemite , Windows 10
2015 Nuendo 7 OS X 10.10 , OS X 10.11 , macOS 10.12 , macOS 10.13 , Windows 7 , Windows 8 , Windows 10
2016 Dorico OS X 10.11 , macOS 10.12 , macOS 10.13 , Windows 10 ,
2018 Nuendo 8 OS X 10.11 , macOS 10.12 , macOS 10.13 , Windows 7 , Windows 8 , Windows 10
2018 Nuendo Live 2 OS X 10.11 , macOS 10.12 , macOS 10.13 , Windows 7 , Windows 8 , Windows 10
2018 Cubase 10 macOS Sierra , macOS High Sierra , macOS Mojave , Windows 7 , Windows 8 , Windows 10
2018 Dorico 2 OS X 10.11 , macOS Sierra , macOS High Sierra , Windows 10
2019 Nuendo 10 macOS Sierra , macOS High Sierra , macOS Mojave , Windows 7 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 10
2019 SpectraLayers Pro 6 macOS Sierra , macOS High Sierra , macOS Mojave , Windows 7 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 10

Web links

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