Steinberg

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Steinberg is a German musical equipment and software company. It mainly produces MIDI music sequencer software, software synthesizers and digital audio editing tools.

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.

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) open industry standard bringing studio technology into sequencer software, the Linear Time Base (LTB) protocol, and VST System Link (VSL) a network protocol which shares the resources of several computers on the same project.

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

1 Current Products
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[edit] Current Products

[edit] Music Production

Steinberg Cubase 4 (This is the successor to the Cubase SX series)
Steinberg Cubase Studio 4
Steinberg Cubase SX3
Steinberg Cubase SL3
Steinberg Cubase SE3
Steinberg V-Stack
Steinberg Nuendo 3
Steinberg WaveLab

[edit] VST Instruments

Steinberg Groove Agent
Steinberg HALion
Steinberg Hypersonic
Steinberg The Grand
Steinberg Virtual Guitarist
Steinberg Virtual Bassist
Steinberg X-phraze

[edit] Older or discontinued products

Steinberg Pro 16 (for Commodore 64)
Steinberg Pro 24 (for Atari ST)
Steinberg Cubase VST (Virtual Studio Technology)
Steinberg Cubasis VST (low-cost edition of Cubase, occasionally bundled with sound cards)
Steinberg Clean!
Steinberg Plex
Steinberg D'cota