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Partner Category: MIDI Software

ZIVIX-JAMSTIK

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Zivix builds innovative electronic instruments and connected software to inspire, educate and empower musicians and creative professionals.
Our Jamstik MIDI Guitars bring MIDI capability to guitarists of all skill levels.  

2014
The original Jamstik is named one of Pop Science’s best inventions of the year and finds crowdfunding success on Indiegogo and is soon followed up by the puc MIDI interface. Both products ship to over 200 retail locations.
2015
Zivix utilizes new Bluetooth Technology to update the product line and raises over $800,000 via Kickstarter. Through our commitment to giving back, we donated over 150 Jamstik’s to EDU and Music Therapy causes.
2016
Zivix expands sales channels and finds success as part of the Amazon Launchpad Program. The jamstik+ also became available for Android users. Also this year, AirJamz is launched and is well received by the Music Therapy communities, US Air Guitarists, and air guitar enthusiasts around the world.
2018
Zivix announces the next-generation Jamstik Smart Guitars, the Jamstik 7 and Jamstik 12—to be launched on Indiegogo Spring 2018.

Winter NAMM 2019:
Zivix Showcases latest Jamstik® 7 Smart Guitar & Celebrates Donation to the NAMM Foundation to Support Music Education

July, 2019

The Jamstik Studio MIDI Guitar
Winter NAMM 2020:

Jamstik Launches Flagship Studio MIDI Guitar

YAMAHA

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Yamaha has been intimately involved with the development of MIDI since 1982 and today makes more MIDI-enabled musical instruments each year than any other company on the planet.

Since 1887, when it began producing reed organs, the Yamaha Corporation in Japan (then Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd.) has grown to become the world’s largest manufacturer of a full line of musical instruments, and a leading producer of audio/visual products, semiconductors and other computer related products, sporting goods, home appliances and furniture, specialty metals, machine tools, and industrial robots.

SYNTHESIA LLC

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Synthesia is a game that can help you learn how to play the piano using falling notes.

Synthesia lowers the barrier to entry for beginners. You can get started immediately without knowing how to read sheet music. Playing songs right away provides great motivation to stick with the piano where you can learn traditional sheet music notation over time as you go along, should you choose to.

Synthesia lowers the barrier to entry for beginners. You can get started immediately without knowing how to read sheet music. Playing songs right away provides great motivation to stick with the piano where you can learn traditional sheet music notation over time as you go along, should you choose to.

Synthesia is also great for more experienced players. It’s a nice platform for quickly sight-reading a new piece, and nearly any song can be found in the MIDI or MusicXML formats that Synthesia understands.

Synthesia is also a nice companion tool for daily practice to complement piano lessons. The scoring and progression systems help keep track of personal growth on each piece.

STEINBERG MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES GMBH

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Steinberg created several industry standard music technologies including the Virtual Studio Technology (VST)[3] format for plug-ins and the ASIO (Audio Stream Input/Output) protocol. Steinberg has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha since 2005.

SPECTRASONICS

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Founded in 1994 by Los Angeles composer Eric Persing and his wife Lorey, Spectrasonics quickly became a leading developer of world-class sampled sound libraries. As Chief Sound Designer for Roland Corporation since 1984, Eric was already well-known in the music industry for creating many of the most popular sounds in their classic synthesizers, including the ground breaking Roland D-50. By infusing his years of product design expertise, Spectrasonics earned a reputation for setting the standard of excellence in the industry.

Building on over 25 years of accomplishments and creativity, Spectrasonics has become one of the world’s leading music software developers. Through it all, Spectrasonics’ success remains the result of its original philosophy: Create “powerfully simple” products that are truly inspiring and unique.

ROBKOO INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGIES

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Digital art crafting, sharing and learning made easy. Robkoo helps everyone become a digital artist through APPs for music making, practising & learning, along with smart instruments & gadgets. Its digital instrument performing APP, JamKoo, has been the #1 paid apps in the music category of the Chinese App Store several times.

RINGWAY ELECTRONICS CO LTD

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Ringway is located in Changzhou city, Jiangsu Province. Today, it has over 60,000 square meter production plant and 600 employees. After more than ten years’ developing and hard work, Ringway has established a quite perfected production system and strict quality control system. Their products are sold in more than 40 countries and territories around the world.

Ringway takes “honesty, diligence, cooperation and consecration” as its enterprise spirit , making every effort to serve the customers.

RETRONYMS

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We work with a variety of clients and partners who share our vision. Here are a few of the apps we’re proud to have made.

Music
Tabletop
iMPC
iMPC iPhone
SynthDopplerPad

Audio
Recorder
Vox 3000

Fun
Dokobots
Seek ’n Spell
Snap

To learn more about our consulting and to see more examples of our work, please visit our Retronyms Consulting site.

Native Instruments

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Native Instruments is the backbeat to the music industry. As the leaders in digital music creation and performance, we’re right there on stage and in the studio with global stars and legends in the making. Driven by our mission to make music creation more inclusive and accessible, our hardware, software and digital services provide innovative, fully-integrated solutions for hobbyists, amateurs and professionals of all styles and genres.

Native Instruments is the backbeat to the music industry. As the leaders in digital music creation and performance, we’re right there on stage and in the studio with global stars and legends in the making. Driven by our mission to make music creation more inclusive and accessible, our hardware, software and digital services provide innovative, fully-integrated solutions for hobbyists, amateurs and professionals of all styles and genres.

For over 20 years, Native Instruments has been at the heart of musical innovation pursuing our vision to inspire and empower all music lovers. Our ground-breaking platforms have created thriving creative communities. And our products and services consistently push technological boundaries and open new creative horizons for professionals and amateurs alike.

MOFORTE

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MoForte, Inc. was incorporated in June of 2012. MoForte’s Founders are experts in the domain of audio digital signal processing (DSP) each contributing inventions and knowledge to the field. All three founders were members of Stanford University’s Sondius team that was formed in the early 90s to create intellectual property around audio DSP inventions. MoForte’s founders were also founders of Staccato Systems, a spin-out from Stanford that was successfully sold to Analog Devices in 2001

MELODICS

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Melodics™ is a desktop app that teaches you to play MIDI keyboards, pad controllers, and drums.
The best way to build your skills is through practice, and the hardest part of practice is sticking with it.
Melodics makes practice FUN, relevant and effective. Level up your skills with music you love, and use the tools that put YOU in charge.

Melodics™ was conceived by Sam Gribben, Ex CEO of Serato, in the summer of 2014. Having finished up at Serato after a decade at the helm, Sam was ready for something new. He’d worked with some of the biggest artists in the music world, and with the international companies who built the instruments & controllers they used. Along the way he noticed how important pad & cue point drumming was becoming in the overlapping worlds of DJing & production. Thus, an idea was born.

MEDELI

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Founded in 1983, Medeli Electronics is a digital musical instrument developer and manufacturer based in Hong Kong. Medeli proved its early success in the 1980s by selling over 1 million units of its electric keyboard as a start, followed by the development of digital pianos, digital drums and other digital audio devices, adding greater dynamics to the product range. Currently it has grown into a company of over 1000 employees and with operations across Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Zhuhai.  

With our continuous commitment to the innovation in design and the development of quality sound, we have established a name among those who share the same values of music appreciation. The company has gained worldwide recognition over the past 30 years, enjoying distribution in over 90 countries, while our distinctive partnerships with many international brands further promotes our expertise within the industry.  

With a wide range of products, we satisfy the demands from beginners to professionals. Best of all, our products are tailored for various kinds of music enthusiasts.

MAKEMUSIC

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Our approach
MakeMusic is the only company that creates, owns, and licenses the most advanced and patented technologies and solutions to support the composing, arranging, teaching, learning, and playing of music. This creates a major barrier to entry for competitors. Independently, MakeMusic’s products are already established as market leaders. Collectively they create a huge advantage for music educators, music makers, music publishers, and other professionals serving these markets, by:

Providing integrated technology, content, and web services to enhance and expand how music is taught, learned, and prepared for performance.
Providing music education content developers, with a technology-enriched publishing platform that leverages their copyrighted assets, while simultaneously increasing the content and value of the SmartMusic library.
Offering software solutions for engraving and electronically distributing sheet music.

Our Mission
To develop and market solutions that transform how music is composed, taught, learned, and performed.

LUMINARY ROLI LIMITED

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ROLI is creating a connected system of expressive, controllable musical instruments, synthesizers and software platforms. Our aim is to unite those parts of music that are currently separated by technical and cultural barriers. The expressive power of acoustic instruments must connect seamlessly with the versatility of electronic instruments; engineering combine with artistry; musical hardware with software synths and workstations; the talents of composing and performing with those of recording, producing, and disseminating music. ROLI’s Seaboard uses our tactile surface technology to redefine how expressive and responsive a digital instrument can be. NOISE, our explosively popular iPhone app, is captivating mobile music-makers by providing powerful new modes of interaction. All of ROLI’s hardware, software, and social products are connected to each other and the world beyond, creating a new chain of tools for contemporary music creation — and pointing the way to a future for the music industry.

KORG

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Since it was founded in 1963, Korg’s goal has been to create new experiences in music and performance. That was what drove the creation of Japan’s first disc-based rhythm machine, the Doncamatic, and then led to the development of Japan’s first synthesizer and the world’s first needle-type tuner, followed by numerous unique instruments that have brought the enjoyment of musical performance to many people all around the world.

Korg is resolved to continue to create innovative and uncompromising instruments which maintain the high quality that inspires professional artists and creators, and yet are approachable enough for anyone to play. The musical instruments Korg will deliver are reflections of the ideas and values of the many artists and users who continue to love Korg products – now and into the future.

JUCE

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JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework, used for the development of desktop and mobile applications. JUCE is used in particular for its GUI and plug-ins libraries. 

JUCE also runs the Audio Developers Conference. 

The aim of JUCE is to allow software to be written such that the same source code will compile and run identically on Windows, macOS and Linux platforms. It supports various development environments and compilers.

Juce is owned by Pace.

PACE specialises in software IP protection and secure licensing, and has been making developer tools for software creators for over 35 years. As PACE’s tools are used by a large number of world-class audio software publishers the company understands the importance of JUCE as a foundational piece of industry software infrastructure.

IMITONE

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imitone is a live, low-latency pitch-to-MIDI controller that works with any microphone. Connect app-to-app with any MIDI-enabled music-making software on Mac or PC. imitone’s friendly design and low cost makes it ideal for students taking their first steps into music production.

As you sing or whistle, imitone makes it feel like you’re playing the instrument. Not a singer? Any instrument you play can become a MIDI controller. Our self-attuning resonator technology offers best-in-class realtime pitch tracking, allowing you to use key-corrected instruments as a form of biofeedback to guide and train your pitch.

imitone team is actively involved in developing the MIDI 2.0 standard. As a MIDI Association company, we focus on pitch and tuning — How can the next generation of MIDI support underserved musical traditions from around the world, new forms of tonal movement and microtonal compositions? By creating prototypes and designing new standards, we can answer these questions and pave a path to the future of digital music.

IK Multimedia

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Way back in 1996 — around the time electricity was discovered and cell phones were the size of your average 4-slot toaster — two Italian engineers got together to solve a problem in a recording studio. Could you get the sound of classic analog gear from a computer? One of them said (in Italian, of course) “Could we emulate electronic circuits using DSP algorithms and feed an audio signal through the computer and get the same sound?” The answer was yes, the piece of gear they emulated was a vintage Abbey Road console, and a company was born.

Although that’s a pretty simplified version of how IK came to be, it reflects the driving philosophy behind all of our products: give musicians the tools they want/need to be creative and productive.

Recreate classic legendary products in the digital world and make them available to all musicians. But make them simple. Make them both aspirational and affordable. And make them for Musicians First.

EXPRESSIVE E

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Expressive E’s mission is to improve the way musicians interact with sounds by creating a much more intuitive and powerful music-making experience.

EMBODME

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ERAE TOUCH
Experiment, compose, perform

Erae Touch is a Polyphonic MIDI Controller. It is born out of a desire to combine both sensitivity and versatility in a seamless object. Experimentation on the surface comes flawlessly bringing musicians closer to their original intents and ideas.

CAEDENCE

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Caedence is a complete browser-based music collaboration platform that keeps you, your band, and your entire performance perfectly in sync — so you can learn faster, rehearse better, and create mind-blowing musical experiences.

Caedence empowers you and your band to customize and sync virtually every aspect of your performance — across devices, and in real time. 

Chord charts & diagrams
Standard notation
Lyrics
Audio
Lighting, video & other visuals
MIDI software & hardware
…and much, much more.

BOME SOFTWARE

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Bome™ Software is a small team of professional software developers creating innovative applications since 1996. Our MIDI software is available for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Linux. Additionally, we make the BomeBox™, a versatile USB, MIDI, and Ethernet router and processor. Thousands of satisfied customers worldwide — ranging from individuals, music studios, theaters to governments to Fortune 500 companies — already enjoy Bome’s products and services.

AUDIO MODELING

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Audio Modeling’s purpose and research aims at finding solutions to enable the user to overcome the inherent limitations of traditional samplers, in addition to developing technological solutions, especially in software, that actively support musicians, composers, and producers in delivering their artistic expression. With solutions such as Camelot Pro, our revolutionary multi-platform live performance tool, technology ceases to be a hindrance and becomes an ally.

SWAM Engine (Synchronous Waves Acoustic Modeling) is a proprietary technology conceived by Stefano Lucato and further developed by Emanuele Parravicini. It combines concepts of Physical Modeling, Behavioral Modeling with the Multi-Vector/Phase-Synchronous Sample-Morphing technique.

Camelot Pro is an innovative multi-platform live performance application conceived by Simone Capitani. It allows to connect hardware and software plugins instruments, attach music scores and manage all in one place. Any scenes switch, setting the instruments sounds and scores displayed, as been performed with no sound interruptions, even through a remote control. 

Camelot is made by Audio Modeling in partnership with Fatar Srl, a leading company in the production of keyboards and MIDI controllers.

AUDIO IMPRESSIONS

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Founded by film and television composer Christopher L. Stone, Audio Impressions is dedicated to creating a more musical experience for composers and other musical creatives.

In order to do so, he has developed several music technologies, patented in the US and Internationally. Products in development include: aour comprehensive virtual instrument library optimized for Divisi processing, a mic bleed and room mic simulation plug-in called “The Room”, and an app that optimizes MIDI files into MusicXML for best results when using music notation software.

ARTURIA

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Arturia was born to allow everyone to make music.
We create instruments and effects that encourage musical discovery, reward curiosity, and savor the artistic process. We’re an international team of passionate people, on a mission to navigate uncharted sonic territory in the name of creative empowerment.

From the raw analog power of Brute synthesizers to our faithful virtual instrument emulations of V Collection, we provide musicians with an inspiring sonic experience that’s instantly accessible, exploratory, and thrilling.

Music Production Made Easy
Arturia’s heritage over the last twenty years has been to provide the best vintage sound combined with modern production capabilities.


We’ve worked to design instruments and effects which both inspire and simplify creativity. We’ve patented new technologies and partnered with world-class sound designers to create a library of thousands of sounds for music makers to explore and employ.

Now our expansive product range spans everything from playful MIDI controllers, to semi-modular monster synthesizers, to all-encompassing studio interfaces.

An all-encompassing line-up committed to enabling musicians, producers, composers, and creators of all persuasions to make the best music they can make, with the professional quality they deserve.

Now we’re more driven than ever in our pursuit of the ultimate music-making experience.

ARTIPHON

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The Artiphon INSTRUMENT was named in TIME Magazine’s “25 Best Inventions of the Year.” in 2015.

INSTRUMENT 1 and Orba, our first two smart instruments, launched with record-setting success on Kickstarter thanks to thousands of people in over 70 countries. Both raised $1M+ in pre-orders, and the INSTRUMENT 1 was named a TIME Best Invention of the Year and a NAMM Best in Show. We are inspired by our incredible community of creators, relying on their insights and feedback as we evolve our products and create new ones.

Dr. Mike Butera founded Artiphon in Nashville, Tennessee in 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Sound Studies from Virginia Tech, has toured the country as a multi-instrumentalist, taught as a professor of sociology, and consulted globally on consumer electronics. Mike’s doctoral research in the phenomenology of listening laid the groundwork for Artiphon’s design philosophy and patents, and he frequently speaks on topics of music technology and augmented creativity.

The Artiphon team is composed of designers, musicians, and engineers from groundbreaking companies including Space X, Blue Origin, Line 6, and Yamaha. Investors include Warner Music Group, Steve Case, TechNexus in partnership with Shure, and other industry leaders.

ART AND LOGIC

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OUR DEVELOPERS DO THE HARD STUFF
Art+Logic designers and developers know how to solve even the most unusual and thorny problems — often where others have failed. We’re comfortable with the entire software development process, from concept to maturity. When there are unforeseen circumstances, or your project has its first hiccup, you can rely on us to know how to overcome any unexpected technical issues. We follow a proven software development process that is built on realistic estimates, a flexible methodology, and a belief in raw talent.

Our developers apply the principles of “agile” software development in a flexible, practical way that respects the iterations of software development, and allows for any necessary adjustments or changes of course. We only hire great programmers, comfortable in the knowledge that a “great” programmer can be ten times more productive and innovative than an “average” one.

ABLETON

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We make Live, Push and Link — unique software and hardware for music creation and performance. With these products, our community of users creates amazing things.

Ableton was founded in 1999 and released the first version of Live in 2001. Our products are used by a community of dedicated musicians, sound designers, and artists from across the world.

Making music isn’t easy. It takes time, effort, and learning. But when you’re in the flow, it’s incredibly rewarding.

We feel the same way about making Ableton products. The driving force behind Ableton is our passion for what we make, and the people we make it for.

8EO

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Rethink how your organization communicates, with the capabilities to make it happen. Create a seamless brand experience. Enhance revenue opportunities with increased customer engagement. Deepen both your customer’s relationship with you – and with each other – in open, yet curated ways.