Steinberg is a German musical equipment and software company. It mainly produces MIDI music sequencer software, software synthesizers and digital audio editing tools. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary All Music Guide: includes a comprehensive and flexible Genre and Style system MusicWiki: A Collaborative Music-related encyclopedia Science of Music: Multimedia exploration of the... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is an industry-standard protocol that defines each note precisely and concisely, allowing electronic musical instruments and computers to talk to each other. ... In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was originally any device that recorded and played back a sequence of control information for an electronic musical instrument. ... Software synthesizers A software synthesizer or virtual instrument is a computer program for digital audio generation. ... This article should be merged with Digital Audio Workstation. ...

Steinberg's first product, Steinberg Pro 16, was sold on floppy disks like this one. Here in version 2.3.

The company was founded in 1984 by Karl Steinberg and Manfred Rürup. Its first product was the MIDI sequencer Steinberg Pro 16 for the Commodore 64. The company has changed name from Steinberg Research to Steinberg Soft- und Hardware GmbH, and was active in the United States for some years as Steinberg North America, Inc. In January 2003, the company was acquired by US firm Pinnacle Systems, within which it operated as an independent company producing its products before being sold to Yamaha in December, 2004. An image of the first product created by Steinberg, Pro 12 on its original floppy disk. ... An image of the first product created by Steinberg, Pro 12 on its original floppy disk. ... A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a circular piece of thin, flexible (i. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64) was a popular home computer of the 1980s. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pinnacle Systems, Inc. ... The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社) is a Japanese company with a large number of product areas. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

They have also specified the audio stream input output (ASIO) protocol which provides a low-latency communication link between digital audio software and professional sound cards, the Virtual Studio Technology (VST) the open industry standard bringing studio technology into sequencer software,the Linear Time Base (LTB) protocol, VST System Link (VSL) a network protocol to share the power of some computers for a project. Audio stream input output is a protocol for low-latency digital audio specified by Steinberg Steinberg was bought by Pinnacle Systems in 2003, and since then, it appears to have stopped supporting ASIO. The development kit (SDK) is still available to download, and is supported by a number of soundcard... A sound card based on VIA Envy chip A sound card is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under program control. ... VST VST is an acronym for Virtual Studio Technology and refers either directly to some versions of the Steinberg Cubase program or VST plug-ins. ...

Well-known products

• Steinberg Pro 16 (for Commodore 64)
• Steinberg Pro 24 (for Atari ST)
• Steinberg Clean!
• Steinberg Cubase series (for Atari ST, Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows)
  • Steinberg Cubase Audio
  • Steinberg Cubase VST (Virtual Studio Technology)
  • Steinberg Cubasis VST (low-cost edition of Cubase, occasionally bundled with sound cards)
• Steinberg Cubase SX (now in version SX3)
• Steinberg Groove Agent
• Steinberg Hypersonic
• Steinberg X-phraze
• Steinberg Virtual Guitarist / Virtual Guitarist electric edition
• Steinberg Plex
• Steinberg D'cota
• Steinberg HALion
• Steinberg Nuendo
• Steinberg WaveLab

Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64) was a popular home computer of the 1980s. ... The Atari 520 ST The Atari ST was a home/personal computer system released by Atari in 1985. ... Cubase is a MIDI, music sequencer and digital audio editing computer application (commonly known as a DAW - Digital Audio Workstation) created by the German firm Steinberg in 1989. ... The Atari 520 ST The Atari ST was a home/personal computer system released by Atari in 1985. ... Macintosh, also known as Mac for short, is a family of personal computers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of closed source proprietary commercial operating environments for personal computers and servers. ... VST VST is an acronym for Virtual Studio Technology and refers either directly to some versions of the Steinberg Cubase program or VST plug-ins. ... VST VST is an acronym for Virtual Studio Technology and refers either directly to some versions of the Steinberg Cubase program or VST plug-ins. ... A sound card based on VIA Envy chip A sound card is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under program control. ...

External link

• http://www.steinberg.net/