IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music) in Paris, France, is one of the world’s leading public research institutes within the fields of musical expression, musical research, sound, and acoustics. In the realms of music, sound, and acoustics, IRCAM is at the forefront of scientific and technological innovations and several concepts in electronic music and audio processing have emerged there. Founded by Pierre Boulez, IRCAM is an institute under the aegis of the Centre Pompidou and the French Ministry of Culture.

Digidesign is the reference for digital audio workstations. This company offers the complete range of audio solutions from the tiny project studio running on a laptop to the huge configurations featuring a DSP armada and dedicated control surfaces. You already know all that...

Apple computer, one of the most used platforms in music & sound industry.

This company has created the computer assisted music in the 80's. Steinberg also introduced the ASIO architechture. The VST format for plug-ins is very popular.

Solera, Pure Compressor, Pure DCompressor, Pure Expander and, Pure DExpander are available in version 1 for VS3 which is the DSP technology for Pyramix DAW.

This company has developped the TDM support for Epure II. They have done a great job.