M-Audio
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| Type | Subsidiary of Avid Technology |
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| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Irwindale, CA,  USA |
| Products | Multimedia |
| Website | www.m-audio.com |
M-Audio (formerly Midiman), a business unit of Avid Technology, is a designer and importer of a variety of audio products, including digital audio workstation interfaces, keyboard MIDI controllers, condenser microphones, and studio monitors. The company has independent offices in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France and Japan. They manufacture primarily in China.
After Avid purchased M-Audio, Digidesign and M-Audio cooperated to release a version of Pro Tools tailored for M-Audio sound interfaces, which is targeted to provide products for many home musicians to use a limited version of Digidesign’s flagship product.
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[edit] Products and markets
M-Audio aims some products at DJs. This includes turntable-style tactile midi controllers and specialized DJ software. Their PCI and firewire audio interfaces offer analog to digital converters for recording and sound from DAW.
Some M-Audio products are portable. These include the Fast Track USB, the MicroTrack II recorder, the Oxygen8 and Axiom 25 Key Controller keyboards. They offer a physically small interface to run Pro Tools, called Transit.
Some artists use M-Audio products, including 9th Wonder, Mark Isham, Black Eyed Peas, Brian Transeau, and Jimmy Chamberlin.
[edit] Control surfaces
- ProjectMix I/O Manufacturer page
[edit] MIDI Keyboards
- Axiom 25, 49, 61 Manufacturer page
- Axiom Pro 25, 49, 61 USBkeyboardcontrollers Manufacturer page
- Keyrig 49, 61 USBkeyboardcontrollers
- Oxygen 25, 49, 61 [1]
[edit] Audio interfaces
- Fast Track USB Manufacturer page
- Fast Track Pro Manufacturer page
- Fast Track Ultra Manufacturer page
- Fast Track Ultra 8R Manufacturer page
- MobilePre USB Manufacturer page
- Transit Manufacturer Page
[edit] Free software
Some M-Audio products in the PCI Audio Interface category contain chipsets which support free software, notably the ICE 1712 chipset. Version 2.6 of the Linux kernel supports M-Audio cards through ALSA without custom configuration or installation of proprietary applications or firmware.
[edit] Distribution
- Germany: Öhringen
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