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musical equipment and software company. It mainly produces MIDI music sequencer software, software synthesizers and digital audio editing tools.
Steinberg's first product, Steinberg Pro 16, was sold on floppy disks like this one. Here in version 2.3.
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 Steinberg trademark was acquired by US firm Pinnacle Systems, within which it presently operates as an independent company producing Cubase.
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.