Kristal (software)
Encyclopedia
KRISTAL Audio Engine is a digital audio editor
, multi-track recorder and sound mixer, operating on a Windows compatible PC, able to manage up to 16 separate channels of audio.
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and Mac OS X
. On September 18, 2006 it was announced that KristalLabs Ltd. a privately held start-up company co-founded by the lead developer of KRISTAL, Matthias Juwan, and Wolfgang Kundrus, who had previously worked on Cubase and Nuendo
, had taken over all work and rights to the source code of K2.
On April 2, 2009 it was revealed that K2 was unveiled at Musikmesse Frankfurt and the entirely new DAW was now officially known as Studio One
. It was also revealed that Studio One was developed in cooperation with PreSonus
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Digital audio editor
A digital audio editor is a computer application for audio editing, i.e. manipulating digital audio. Digital audio editors are the main software component of a digital audio workstation.-For use with music:...
, multi-track recorder and sound mixer, operating on a Windows compatible PC, able to manage up to 16 separate channels of audio.
History
KRISTAL started out in 1999 as the university thesis project of Matthias Juwan. At that time it was known as the Crystal Audio Engine, a name derived from the song The Crystal Ship by The DoorsThe Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...
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K2
On December 24, 2004 the KRISTAL development team announced that they were working on the successor to KRISTAL Audio Engine 1.0 (codenamed K2) based on a new infrastructure. Among other things the development team planned to include cross-platform support for Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
and Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
. On September 18, 2006 it was announced that KristalLabs Ltd. a privately held start-up company co-founded by the lead developer of KRISTAL, Matthias Juwan, and Wolfgang Kundrus, who had previously worked on Cubase and Nuendo
Nuendo
Nuendo is a music software product developed by Steinberg for music recording, arranging, editing and post-production as part of a Digital Audio Workstation. The package is aimed at audio and video post-production market segments, but it also contains optional modules that can be used for...
, had taken over all work and rights to the source code of K2.
On April 2, 2009 it was revealed that K2 was unveiled at Musikmesse Frankfurt and the entirely new DAW was now officially known as Studio One
PreSonus Studio One
PreSonus Studio One is a music creation, production and mastering application for Mac OS X and Windows made by PreSonus.-Early development:In 2006, KristalLabs Software Ltd., a start-up company founded by Wolfgang Kundrus and Matthias Juwan, began working on Studio One in cooperation with PreSonus...
. It was also revealed that Studio One was developed in cooperation with PreSonus
PreSonus
PreSonus Audio Electronics, Inc. is an American manufacturer of recording and live sound equipment, founded in January 1995 by engineers Jim Odom and Brian Smith, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
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