M-Audio
企业介绍M-Audio 是一个在专业数位录音及 MIDI 应用产品领域中的主要供应商，完整的产品内容可提供目前数位录音及 MIDI 音乐创作者的任何需要以及完整的解决案。 本公司自 1988 年成立至今，已在美国、加拿大、德国、法国、日本等地成立分公司，本公司在产品上具有极高的效能/价格比优势，让消费者仅需以平实的价位便可买到高性能品质的产品，因此在近年来；本公司的产品纷纷在国际产品展览会及各专业媒体评比中获奖，确实得到消费者们的肯定。
2004年8月20日，M-audiao被Avid公司收购，成为其全资子公司。
在电脑技术日益进步的今日，M-Audio 提供了 Delta Audio、Studiophile、MIDI 介面及 MIDI 主控键盘等相关产品，使得许多音乐人纷纷改采以电脑为核心的数位硬碟录音及MIDI编曲系统来进行音乐创作，打破了以往传统的创作方式。 而 M-AUDIO 同时也代理发行像是 Propellerhead Reason 、Ableton Live 、ArKaos VJ 等优秀的音乐软体及 Groove Tubes 系列麦克风，最近我们更将产品向下延伸至以一般电脑用户为主的消费性市场。
同时；我们的产品也获得了许多音乐创作者的支持与肯定，他们热心提供了许多优良的作品，让我们收录在随产品附上的 M-Powered Artists CD 中。
英文介绍
M-Audio, a business unit of Avid Technology, Inc, is a leading provider of creative tools for computer-centric musicians and audio professionals. Founded in 1988, the Company now has independent offices in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France and Japan. M-Audio is the driving force in the industry empowering musicians to create, perform and record with complete mobile hardware/software solutions that have forever changed when, where and how music is made. The Company's reputation for delivering cutting edge technology in easy-to-use, affordable products has garnered significant recognition by industry experts, including world-class artists, recording studios and magazines. M-Audio's advanced engineering and value-conscious pricing has also helped to bring the joy of creating high-quality music to virtually anyone with the desire.
M-Audio (formerly Midiman) is a leading provider of digital audio and MIDI solutions for today’s electronic musicians and audio professionals. Founded in 1988, M-Audio now has independent offices in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France and Japan. M-Audio’s ability to parlay advanced technology into affordable products has led the company to win some of the international audio community’s highest praise and awards. M-Audio’s mission of redefining the studio delivers new levels of control, virtualization and mobility that transform the way computer-centric musicians compose, perform and live their creative lives. In addition to manufacturing our own product lines like the popular Delta audio cards, Studiophile reference monitors and USB MIDI controllers, M-Audio also distributes best-of-class products such as Propellerhead Reason, Ableton Live, and ArKaos VJ. In recent years, we've also launched a product line that brings professional-quality audio to the consumer electronics market. Our M-Powered Artists program sponsors both known and unknown artists in gaining wider recognition for their unique musical contributions. Complimentary copies of M-Powered Artists CDs ship with every M-Audio product. At M-Audio, we firmly believe in building solid relationships with our customers as well as building the highest quality products. Our technical advisors are known for giving customers complete and informed support—even if it’s just figuring out which hard drive you need for digital audio. We invite you to contact us if you have any questions at all about our products—before or after the sale.
Tewksbury, MA – August 20, 2004 – Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Irwindale, CA-based M-Audio – a leading provider of digital audio and MIDI solutions for electronic musicians and audio professionals. M-Audio is now a business unit of Avid’s Digidesign audio division, and will market its line of computer audio products alongside Digidesign’s award-winning digital audio workstations for the professional and home/hobbyist markets.
“There are significant benefits that result from this acquisition – not just for Avid, but for virtually any user who is serious about making high-quality music or audio,” said David Krall, Avid’s president and chief executive officer. “Both Digidesign and M-Audio have visionary leaders who have proven track records for pioneering computer-based audio solutions. In the months ahead, we will tap their respective areas of expertise to develop a versatile and comprehensive set of creative home studio tools to pursue what the National Association of Music Merchants estimates to be a $500 million annual opportunity in the computer music and home recording market.”
M-Audio’s award-winning line of products – which includes computer audio peripherals, PCI sound cards, keyboard controllers and control surfaces, microphones, microphone preamps, speakers, and distributed software and proprietary sound libraries – complements Digidesign’s family of professional and home audio solutions. As a business unit of Digidesign, M-Audio employs approximately 200 people with domestic operations in California and Wisconsin, and international operations in Canada, England, Germany, France, and Japan. M-Audio’s founder and CEO, Tim Ryan, has joined Digidesign as general manager of M-Audio, reporting to Dave Lebolt, Digidesign general manager and Avid vice president. M-Audio’s headquarters will remain in Irwindale.
The acquisition will be recorded as a purchase in Avid’s third quarter.