Digidesign

Digidesign is a digital audio company. It was founded in 1984 by Peter Gotcher and Evan Brooks. The company began as a project to raise money for the founders' band, selling EPROM chips for drum machines. It grew to be the leader in digital audio.

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• 1984 - Founded as DigiDrums (later DigiDesign) by Gotcher and Brooks.
• 1991 - Digidesign revolutionizes digital audio with the release of the Pro Tools. This integrated software and hardware system (digital audio workstation) is the standard for audio production for television, music, and film.
• 1995 - Avid Technology acquires Digidesign. Digidesign now operates as a business unit of Avid.
• 2003 - Avid acquires Bomb Factory's extensive product catalog. These products are now included with Pro Tools systems.
• 2004 - Avid acquires M-Audio, which now operates as a business unit of Digidesign.
• 2005 - Avid acquires Wizoo, which now operates as a business unit of Digidesign.

Digital audio: Digital audio describes sound recording and reproduction systems which work by using a digital representation of the audio waveform....

EPROM: An EPROM, or erasable programmable read-only memory, is a type of computer memory chip that retains its data when its power supply is switched off. In other words, it is non-volatile. It is an array of floating gate transistors individually programmed by an electronic device that supplies higher v...

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