Stephan Bernsee is a Digital Signal Processing

Digital signal processing

Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of discrete time signals by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals. Digital signal processing and analog signal processing are subfields of signal processing...

 applications developer

Software developer

A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software. A software developer may take part in design, computer programming, or software project management...

 from Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. He is the founder of the audio software company Prosoniq

Prosoniq

Short for "Prosoniq Products Software", developer and license provider for tools in the audio and music industry, mostly known for their sonicWORX, OrangeVocoder, TimeFactory and the Hartmann Neuron synthesizer products.-Description:...

 and the principal developer of the sound synthesis technology used in the Hartmann Music Neuron

Hartmann Neuron

The Hartmann Neuron was an electronic musical instrument designed and built by industry designer Axel Hartmann of the German company Hartmann Music in the years 2001-2005. The Neuron synthesizer used an Artificial Neural Network to create a digital computer model from sampled sounds, implementing a...

 series of synthesizers, the technology behind Prosoniq TimeFactory

Audio timescale-pitch modification

Time stretching is the process of changing the speed or duration of an audio signal without affecting its pitch.Pitch scaling or pitch shifting is the opposite: the process of changing the pitch without affecting the speed...

, its popular OrangeVocoder

Vocoder

A vocoder is an analysis/synthesis system, mostly used for speech. In the encoder, the input is passed through a multiband filter, each band is passed through an envelope follower, and the control signals from the envelope followers are communicated to the decoder...

and the recently announced sonicWORX Pro application which does pattern detection to allow extracting, manipulating and suppressing individual notes and sounds within a song. He holds a couple of patents, one for localizing audio in 3D space