New Media AV - Digidesign

Digidesign For over 20 years Digidesign has been the industry leader in digital audio production, providing the professional music, broadcast, multimedia, and film industries with tools for audio creation, post production, collaboration, and distribution. Our innovative core technologies, which continue to revolutionize the audio profession and the art of recording, have earned us a Grammy® award for Outstanding Technical Achievement, and an Oscar® statuette representing the Scientific and Technical Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the design, development, and implementation of the Digidesign® Pro Tools® digital audio workstation.

In 1995 Digidesign became a division of Avid® Technology, Inc., the world leader in digital nonlinear media creation, management, and distribution solutions for the film, video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast industries. Since joining forces, Digidesign and Avid have led the industry by offering innovative and powerful integrated platforms for the creation, management, and delivery of digital media. Digidesign’s industry-standard Pro Tools software is the predominant creation tool in the professional audio community, and has been instrumental in the creation of album recordings as well as film, television, and radio broadcast post production.

In early 2004 Digidesign unveiled the ICON integrated console environment, featuring the D-Control™ and D-Command™ worksurfaces, Pro Tools|HD® Accel as the core DSP engine, and modular Pro Tools|HD audio interfaces. Since its introduction, Digidesign has sold thousands of ICON consoles to professional music and post production studios around the world.

Later in 2004 Digidesign announced VENUE, a purpose-built live sound digital mixing environment, marking the company’s entry into the professional sound reinforcement market. Since its introduction, VENUE systems have been adopted by many of the world’s top touring musicians, and are also rapidly gaining adoption as the system of choice in the club, house of worship, and corporate A/V markets.

In August 2004 Avid acquired M-Audio, a leading provider of digital audio and MIDI solutions for musicians and audio professionals. Since becoming a part of the Avid Audio division, M-Audio markets its line of computer audio peripherals, PCI sound cards, keyboard controllers, personal recorders, microphones, speakers, Pro Tools M-Powered™ software, proprietary sound libraries, and M-Audio-distributed third-party software alongside Digidesign’s award-winning digital audio workstations for the professional and personal studio markets.

In 2005 the German virtual instrument design group Wizoo joined the Avid Audio family, and now comprises the core of the Digidesign Advanced Instrument Research (A.I.R.) group. This R&D team focuses on developing inspiring, creative “virtual instrument” plug-ins for Pro Tools systems, with an emphasis on tight integration and reliable performance.

In 2006 Sibelius joined the Avid Audio family. Sibelius is the world market leader in developing software for professionals, educators, and students to write, teach, learn, and/or publish music. Digidesign and M-Audio leverage Sibelius’ strong ties in the education market to expand the number and type of products the companies can offer to educators and students.

Digidesign also enjoys strong relationships with other leaders in the audio industry. Its Digidesign Development Partners™ community is the largest and most successful in the business, offering more than 100 products that are compatible with Digidesign technology.

Throughout its history, Digidesign’s commitment to audio professionals everywhere has remained the same: To strive to deliver the most creative, flexible, and comprehensive set of tools for audio creation and production to anyone working with sound, all within one extremely powerful and easy-to-use environment.