Pro Tools 101_ An Introduction to Pro Tools 11 ( PDFDrive )

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In 1984, Peter and Evan formed Digidrums and found themselves selling
their drum chips by the tens of thousands. With this success, they forged
ahead into other types of software and hardware design.
Among their software projects was a product named Sound Designer, which
enabled users to edit sounds captured by a sampling keyboard. Sound
Designer was the first commercial product to combine waveform editing
with a front panel emulation/editor.
Figure 1.2 The original Sound Designer package
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Evolving into Digidesign
In 1985, the company changed its name to Digidesign. Over the next few
years, Digidesign began developing products for working with MIDI and
synthesis on Macintosh computers.
By 1987, Digidesign began prototyping a mono sample playback card for
digital audio, and the following year, the company released Sound
Accelerator, a CD-quality two-channel output card for the Mac II. This
proved to be the first step toward enabling computer systems to provide
professional-quality audio output.