Spectrasonics

Spectrasonics
Type Privately Held Corporation
Industry Computer software and hardware for music production/performance
Founded 1994[1]
Headquarters Los Angeles, California
Key people Eric Persing
Employees 11-50[2]
Website Company Website

Spectrasonics is a music software company based in California, United States. Founded in 1994, the company originally produced sample libraries[3] and then became one of the first companies to create software instruments in 2002[4] Their flagship product is Omnisphere, an extensive software synthesizer released in 2008. The companies instruments are used by many professional music producers and well-known musical artists.[5]

They are notable for the significant awards that their software has won and the real world use by professionals in the sound industry.[6][6] These awards include, but limited too:

Their products have been used by many professional musicians and film scorers. Their sounds can be recognized in films such as Terminator Salvation, Transformers, and The Kingdom.[6] Video game music composer Tom Salta and Academy award nominated film composer James Newton Howard have been quoted saying Spectrasonics' music software products are an important part of their music studios.[10][11]

List of works sampling Spectrasonics

Music Library Year Media type Name of the media Composition name Composer Genre
Heart of Asia 1998 Album Are You Shpongled? "Divine Moments of Truth" Shpongle Psychedelic Trance
Heart of Asia 2000 Video game Diablo II "Harem" Matt Uelmen Experimental
Symphony of Voices 2000 Video game Diablo II various Matt Uelmen Experimental
Symphony of Voices 2001 Single N/A "Sonne" Rammstein Industrial Metal
Heart of Asia 2002 Album Angel Tears Vol. 3 "Ishka" Angel Tears Goa chillout
Heart of Asia 2002 Album Cura Me "Cura Me" Signum Trance
Heart of Asia 2003 Album Blumenkraft "Splitting An Atom" Ott Dub
Heart of Asia 2002 Album Just Be "A Tear in the Open"[12] DJ Tiesto Trance
Heart of Asia 2005 Album UR/A Tear in the Open "A Tear in the Open
(Leama & Moor remix)"
 DJ Tiesto Trance
Heart of Asia 2005 Album Fairydust "Ailein duinn" Trobar de Morte Neofolk
Heart of Asia 2006 Album Hall Of Dreams "Hall Of Dreams" En Voice Ambient enigmatic
Heart of Asia 2008 Album Lost Space Device "Anna" Spectrum Vision Psybient
Heart of Asia 2010 Album What Dreams May Come "Ailein duinn"[13] Wine and Alchemy World
Heart of Asia 2006 Video game Tomb Raider: Legend "Main theme" Troels Folmann Electronic
Heart of Asia N/A Album "World Inside My Heart" Deep Spirit of Native Americans New age, World

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "Spectrasonics". LinkedIn. http://www.linkedin.com/companies/spectrasonics. Retrieved 2011-10-04. 
  3. ^ "Legacy Products". Spectrasonics. http://www.spectrasonics.net/libraries/libraries.php. Retrieved 2011-10-04. 
  4. ^ "Products - Omnisphere, Stylus RMX, Trilian". Spectrasonics. http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/index.html. Retrieved 2011-10-04. 
  5. ^ "Users". Spectrasonics. http://www.spectrasonics.net/company/users.php. Retrieved 2011-10-04. 
  6. ^ a b c "Spectrasonics News - User Stories". Spectrasonics.net. http://www.spectrasonics.net/news/c/pronews. Retrieved 2011-10-04. 
  7. ^ "The #1 online community for musicians | Harmony Central". Messe.harmony-central.com. http://messe.harmony-central.com/Musikmesse09/article/Spectrasonics/Spectrasonics-Omnisphere-Wins-2009-MIPA-Award. Retrieved 2011-10-04. 
  8. ^ "mipa award 2009 - Nominees and Winner". .mipa-award.de. http://www1.mipa-award.de/2009/winner.htm#Keyboards. Retrieved 2011-10-04. 
  9. ^ "Spectrasonics' Atmosphere is G.A.N.G Award Winner". Mixonline.com. 2004-04-02. http://mixonline.com/news/audio_spectrasonics_atmosphere_gang/. Retrieved 2011-10-04. 
  10. ^ "Mix magazine February 2008 profile of Tom Salta’s project studio Persist Music featured in Mix magazine February 2008". Mixonline.com. 2008-02-01. http://mixonline.com/game_audio/features/audio_persist_music/. Retrieved 2011-10-04. 
  11. ^ [2]
  12. ^ "Track samples, composers, producers and vocalists". http://www.discogs.com/release/261325. 
  13. ^ "Recordings". http://www.wineandalchemy.com/recordDreams.html. 

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