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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 AG 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 presently operates as an independent company producing their products.

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) the open industry standard bringing studio technology into sequencer software,the Linear Time Base (LTB) protocol, VST System Link (VSL) a network protocol to share the power of some computers for a project.

1 Well-known products

• Steinberg Pro 16 (for Commodore 64)
• Steinberg Pro 24 (for Atari STThe Atari ST was a home/ personal computer system released by Atari in 1985. The "ST" allegedly stood for "Sixteen/Thirty-two" which referred to the Motorola 68000's 32-bit internals with 16-bit external buses. Other theories say that ST really stood for)
• Steinberg Clean!
• Steinberg Cubase seriesCubase is a MIDI and music sequencer and digital audio editing computer application created by the German firm Steinberg in 1989. Cubase started as a MIDI recording and editing tool. Later, features for recoding raw audio were introduced. Cubase was origi (for Atari STThe Atari ST was a home/ personal computer system released by Atari in 1985. The "ST" allegedly stood for "Sixteen/Thirty-two" which referred to the Motorola 68000's 32-bit internals with 16-bit external buses. Other theories say that ST really stood for, Apple MacintoshMacintosh now known simply as Mac in all official capacities, is a family of personal computers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. of Cupertino, California, USA. Named after the McIntosh, a type of apple favoured by Jef Raskin, the Macintosh was launche and Microsoft WindowsImage use policy. Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for personal computers. The range was first introduced by Microsoft in 1985 and eventually has come to dominate the world personal computer market. All recent versions of)
  • Steinberg Cubase Audio
  • Steinberg Cubase VST (Virtual Studio Technology)
  • Steinberg Cubasis VST (low-cost edition of Cubase, occasionally bundled with sound cards)
• Steinberg Cubase SX now in version SX3
• Steinberg Groove Agent
• Steinberg Hypersonic
• Steinberg X-phraze
• Steinberg Virtual Guitarist / Virtual Guitarist electric edition
• Steinberg Plex
• Steinberg D'cota
• Steinberg HALion
• Steinberg Nuendo
• Steinberg WaveLab