M-Audio (formerly Midiman ) is an inMusic Brand business unit that designs and markets digital audio and MIDI interfaces, keyboards and MIDI controllers, synthesizers, loudspeakers, studio monitors, systems Digital DJs, microphones, and music software. The company has independent offices in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, and Japan.
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M-Audio was founded in the late 1990s by Tim Ryan, an engineer and graduate of the California Institute of Technology who has co-designed with Con Brio Advanced Digital Synthesizer and helped develop MIDI software for Commodore and Apple computers, including two of the top-selling MIDI software titles at the time, Studio One and Studio Two. After establishing the company as Music Soft and changing its name to Midiman because Yamaha Corporation has rights to the name Music Soft, Ryan started the company with a hardware solution designed to solve the challenge of connecting MIDI, audio, and computer equipment together for music production purposes.
Midiman first established itself as a manufacturer of small, affordable MIDI troubleshooters, synchronization tools, and interfaces. The first Midiman product was named "Midiman," the MIDI-to-tape synchronizer recorder, but the first product to experience major success was Syncman and Syncman Pro VITC-to-LTC/MTC converters. The next product of the record is the Midisport and Bi-Port range from the MIDI interface which is far more commercially successful than any other Midiman product to date, and that forms the core product category for the company for years to come.
Following the commercial success of the MIDI interface, Midiman introduced the Flying Cow and Flying Calf A/D/D/A converters, and entered the audio interface product category for the first time with 4-input, 20-bit DMAN 2044.
Growth, re-branding, and acquisition of Avid
In 2000 and simultaneously with the announcement of the PCI Delta Series audio interface, Midiman introduced "M-Audio" as a new brand for their audio products. In the following years, Midiman expanded its business further by entering into distribution agreements with Propellerhead Software, Ableton, ArKaos, and Groove Tubes microphones. The success of Midiman and M-Audio products, combined with distribution revenue, generated 128% growth for the company in 2001 and 68% growth in 2002, making Midiman the fastest-growing music company in the US for the second year.
Having now established itself in the MIDI interface and the audio product interface category, Midiman entered the MIDI keyboard controller market in 2002 with the introduction of the portable 25-key Oxygen8. Although not the first 25-key MIDI controller or the first cost-effective keyboard controller with many hardware MIDI controls, Oxygen8 helps build new categories of portable keyboard controllers, and significant product categories for M-Audio in the coming years. Similarly, the same year marked the inclusion of M-Audio into the market of studio monitor speakers with Studiophile SP5B. Later in the same year, Midiman officially re-branded themselves entirely as M-Audio, a brand they used for their audio division since 1999.
In 2003, Midiman acquired Evolution Electronics LTD, the MIDI controller manufacturer, as a wholly owned subsidiary, and continues to sell the Evolution-branded MIDI controllers and keyboards. The following year, Avid Technology acquired Midiman, Inc. (who at the time, did business as M-Audio). Avid pays about $ 174 million, or nearly eight times the company's book value. Payment in the form of $ 80 million in cash, about 2 million shares of Avid's common stock is issued, and all M-Audio stock options are assumed. Tim Ryan went on with the company as general manager.
2005-2011
After Avid purchased M-Audio, Digidesign and M-Audio teamed up to release a limited version of Digidesign's flagship product, Pro Tools, which is compatible with M-Audio's affordable audio interface hardware. This Pro Tools version is called Pro Tools M-Powered. The M-Audio product continues to be aimed at home-based recording enthusiasts, with more emphasis on hardware portability and controllers for music software, such as Trigger Finger, an early USB MIDI controller utilizing a 4x416 bearing grid to trigger sound via MIDI, iControl for GarageBand, and the interface/interface controls of ProjectMix's integrated I/O interface. The company's keyboard controller range extends to 3 different Oxygen series keyboard sizes, more affordable and simpler Keystation series, and then a premium Axiom USB MIDI keyboard controller.
The audio interface remains the dominant category for M-Audio as well, with an ongoing version of the PCI Delta series interface, the FastTrack USB audio interface series, and the firewire audio interface of the ProFire series, among others. Similarly, studio reference monitors remain strong categories, and include the Studiophile BX series, the Studiophile CX series, and the premium DSM Studiophile series monitors, along with the AV series desktop speakers targeted to consumer electronics.
M-Audio also branched out into new product categories. In 2005, M-Audio released Black Box, guitar processor and audio interface with modeling guitar amps, beat-synced effects, and drum tracks for computer-based recording that they developed together with Roger Linn Design. The digital stage piano, ProKeys 88, introduces M-Audio to the instrument category. The partnership with Ultimate Ears carries the M-Audio IE earphones, and M-Audio joins the handheld digital audio recorder market with the MicroTrack series. With the introduction of Torq and related hardware, M-Audio established itself in the burgeoning digital DJ category.
Sell to inMusic (2012-present)
In mid-2012, Avid sold M-Audio to InMusic as part of efforts to streamline operations and reduce operating costs. Along with its consumer music hardware products, InMusic also acquired IP group and AIR engineering team, which is responsible for many virtual instruments and plug-ins for the Pro Tools audio production software platform. Avid maintains the audio range of the Mbox interface and some previous M-Audio brand products.
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Artist
M-Audio products are used by various artists, manufacturers and composers, including; 9th Wonder, The Black Eyed Peas, Narensound, Brian Transeau, Coldcut, Depeche Mode, Evanescence, Jimmy Chamberlin, Gary Numan, Mark Isham, Los Lobos, Carmen Rizzo, Jeff Rona, Tom Scott, Skrillex, Chester Thompson and The Crystal Method , and much more
Product release line
- 1989 Syncman & amp; Syncman Pro MIDI-to-Tape Sync.
- 1996 AudioBuddy microphone preamp
- 1996 MultiMixer 6 & amp; Micromixer 18 mini mixer
- GMan General MIDI 1996 module
- 1997 Digipatch12X6 digital patchbay
- 1998 Midisport, BiPort
- 1999 SAM (1999) mixer/S/PDIF-ADAT converter
- 1999 CO-axial-to-Optics CO2 converter
- 1998 Flying Cow, Flying Calf A/D/D/A Converter
- Delta Delta 2000, Delta DiO 2496, Delta 1010 audio interface
- 2000 SuperDAC 2496 digital audio converter
- 2002 Oxygen 8 USB MIDI keyboard controller
- 2002 Studiophile SP-5B nearfield studio monitor
- 2002 Sonica USB audio interface
- 2002 DMP3 Dual Mic Preamp
- 2002 USB Duo
- 2003 Transit USB mobile audio interface.
- 2003 ProSessions Sound Loop Libraries
- 2003 Ozone 25-key USB MIDI keyboard controller/control surface and audio interface.
- 2003 Audiophile USB audio & amp; MIDI Interface
- 2003 BX5 active nearfield reference studio monitor
- 2003 Solaris large diaphragm condenser microphone
- 2004 Evolution X-Session USB surface control DJ MIDI.
- 2004 Luna cardioid large cardioid-diaphragm
- 2004 firewire 410 firewire audio interface
- 2004 Octane 8 channel preamp with digital output
- Keyboard Keystation Pro 88 88-key MIDI controller
- 2004 Nova microphone
- 2004 firewire audio interface Audiophile firewire
- 2004 firewire audio interface 1814 firewire
- Black Box 2005
- 2005 Trigger USB trigger pad controller
- 2005 iControl surface control for GarageBand
- 2005 ProKeys 88 digital stage piano
- MidAir and MidAir wireless MIDI controller system and keyboard 37 2006
- 2006 ProjectMix I/O interface control/integrated audio interface
- 2007 NRV10 Firewire mixer/audio interface
- 2007 Fast Track Ultra 8x8 USB and audio interface
- IE-40 2007 reference earphones
- Pulsar II 2008 diaphragm condenser microphone
- 2011 Venom 49-key VA synthesizer
Latest products
Audio interface
- M-Track II
- M-Track Plus II
- M-Track Quad
- M-Track Eight
- M-Track 2x2
- M-Track 2x2M
MIDI keyboard
- Axiom AIR 25, 49, 61
- Keystation II 49, 61, 88
- Oxygen MKIV 25, 49, 61, 88
- Code 25, 49, 61
- CTRL49 (49-key USB/MIDI intelligent controller with full color display)
Free software
Some M-Audio products in the PCI Audio Interface category contain chipsets that support free software, especially the ICE 1712 chipset. Version 2.6 of the Linux kernel supports M-Audio cards via ALSA without special configuration or installation of proprietary applications or firmware.
References
External links
- Official website
- ALSA ICE1712 Configuration
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