All items tagged with Focusrite Group (11)

Focusrite Group CEO Tim Carroll Named President of MIDI Association

January 29, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Focusrite Group CEO Tim Carroll Named President of MIDI Association

The MIDI Association, a nonprofit trade organization dedicated to expanding, promoting and protecting MIDI technology for the benefit of artists and musicians around the world, has named Tim Carroll, Focusrite Group CEO, as its new president. He will serve a two-year term. The decision was made via an election by the association’s executive board.

Focusrite Announces Acquisition of OutBoard Electronics and TiMax Immersive Audio Solutions

December 19, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Focusrite Announces Acquisition of OutBoard Electronics and TiMax Immersive Audio Solutions

Focusrite plc has announced the acquisition of UK based Sheriff Technology Limited, trading as OutBoard, the company behind both TiMax immersive audio solutions and OutBoard stage rigging motor control products and PAT4 enterprise electrical safety testing. They will join the Audio Reproduction division of the Focusrite Group alongside Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, and Linea Research.

Adam Audio Runs Sonarworks Calibration Profiles Embedded on A Series Monitors

October 25, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Adam Audio Runs Sonarworks Calibration Profiles Embedded on A Series Monitors

More speaker monitor companies are embracing the reality that its users are going to apply calibration tools to their carefully designed and tuned "linear responses," and eventually even load speaker responses that emulate other well-known references. Anticipating that fact, Adam Audio confirmed a partnership with Sonarworks on its all new A Series, the successor to the popular AX Series, which are now able to load those calibration files to embedded DSP.

ADAM Audio Announces A Series of Studio Monitors with Built-In Sonarworks Room Correction

April 7, 2022 by Joao Martins

ADAM Audio Announces A Series of Studio Monitors with Built-In Sonarworks Room Correction

ADAM Audio announced the launch of a complete new range of studio monitors, with a total of 5 models. The new A Series is the successor of the original and most popular designs from the Berlin-based company, now adding rotatable HPS waveguides for the company's X-ART tweeter, DSP-based room correction and voicing with remote control software. The most significant innovation is the DSP-integration of automated room correction in partnership with Sonarworks.

Focusrite plc Acquires DSP and Amplifier Experts Linea Research Holdings

March 10, 2022 by Joao Martins

Focusrite plc Acquires DSP and Amplifier Experts Linea Research Holdings

Focusrite plc, the British music and audio conglomerate company that also owns Martin Audio among other brands - and recently created Optimal Audio - announced the acquisition of Linea Research Holdings Ltd, a UK-based designer and manufacturer of professional audio equipment. The acquisition allows Focusrite to add a very strong audio amplifier and signal processing company to the group, while the founders of Linea Research join the fast growing Focusrite Group.

Optimal Audio Appoints Al McKinna as Head of Product

September 13, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Optimal Audio Appoints Al McKinna as Head of Product

Recently launched British company Optimal Audio, extending the business in commercial audio for holding company Focusrite plc (Focusrite, Martin Audio, ADAM Audio, Novation and Ampify Music), announced the appointment of Al McKinna as Head of Product. McKinna was Director of Product Management for Live Sound at Avid. Optimal Audio also announced the appointment of Raf Willems, formerly with Apart/Biamp as the new Head of Sales and Channel Marketing EMEA.

Focusrite Group Acquires American Synthesizer Company Sequential

April 27, 2021 by Joao Martins

Focusrite Group Acquires American Synthesizer Company Sequential

In a joint statement, Focusrite Group and Sequential LLC announced that British holding company Focusrite plc has acquired Sequential LLC, the respected American synthesizer manufacturer led by legendary electronic instrument designer and Grammy winner Dave Smith. A surprising development given that it was only in 2015 that Dave Smith regained the rights to the Sequential name from Yamaha, allowing Dave Smith Instruments to be rebranded as Sequential in 2018.

April 20, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Focusrite plc Unveils New Optimal Audio Brand and Complete Portfolio of Commercial Audio Products

British holding company Focusrite plc, which does business as Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Martin Audio, ADAM Audio, Novation and Ampify Music brands, unveiled a new seventh brand, Optimal Audio. The strategy, according to Focusrite plc, is to offer a complete portfolio of advanced commercial audio products, designed for a fully connected and remotely controlled systems approach, with ease of installation in mind.

New Ceiling Loudspeakers for Commercial Audio from Martin Audio

March 3, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

New Ceiling Loudspeakers for Commercial Audio from Martin Audio

Short after the surprising announcement of the sale of the company to its High Wycombe neighbor Focusrite Audio Engineering, Martin Audio had another busy start to the year with the introduction of another five products targeting commercial installation, now joining the company's ADORN series. Martin Audio introduced five new in-ceiling and pendant loudspeakers together with many other recently introduced products at ISE 2020.

Focusrite Introduces ISA 828 MkII, ISA ADN2 and ISA ADN8 with Dante

January 23, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Focusrite Introduces ISA 828 MkII, ISA ADN2 and ISA ADN8 with Dante

Focusrite Pro showed its full range of Dante-enabled Audio-over-IP interfaces in a dedicated booth during NAMM 2020, where dedicated solutions specialists were on hand to answer any networking questions. For this edition of the Anaheim show, Focusrite announced three new products in the ISA range that bring the classic Focusrite sound to Dante Audio-over-IP networks: The ISA 828 MkII Eight-Channel Mic Preamp, and the ISA ADN2 and ADN8 A/D cards.

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