M-Audio

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M-Audio

Type	Subsidiary of Avid Technology
Founded	1988
Headquarters	Irwindale, CA, USA
Products	Multimedia
Website	www.M-Audio.com

M-Audio DJ Setup

M-Audio (formerly Midiman), a business unit of Avid Technology, is a manufacturer of a variety of audio products, including digital audio workstation interfaces, keyboard MIDI controllers, condenser microphones, and studio monitors. The company now has independent offices in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France and Japan. After Avid purchased M-Audio, Digidesign and M-Audio cooperated to release a version of Pro Tools tailored for M-Audio sound interfaces, which is targeted to provide products for many home musicians to use a limited version of Digidesign’s flagship product.

1 Products and markets
2 Free Software
3 External links
4 Distribution
5 References

[edit] Products and markets

The Blackbox is a combined effects box and user interface. There is a range of products aimed specifically at DJs, such as turntable-style tactile midi controllers and specialized DJ software. Their PCI and firewire audio interfaces offer analog to digital converters for recording and sound from DAW.

Some M-Audio products are portable. These include the Solaris USB microphone, the Oxygen and Axiom 25 Key Controller keyboards. They offer a physically small interface to run Protools.

Some artists use M-Audio products, including Mark Isham, Black Eyed Peas, Brian Transeau, and Jimmy Chamberlin.

[edit] Free Software

Some M-Audio products in the PCI Audio Interface category contain chipsets which support free software, notably the ICE 1712 chipset. Version 2.6 of the Linux kernel supports M-Audio cards through ALSA without custom configuration or installation of proprietary applications or firmware.