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stevebard · Post by **stevebard** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 10:24 am

I'm curious about the geographic distribution (and how that has developed) of music software companies/ developers. It would be fun to have a map of the world with them all located. It's not often obvious on first acquaintance where a company is based- they all use English predominantly among other indications. Which countries are big in sample libraries, where small developers are most creative etc. Germany (as well as the US obviously) seems an absolute powerhouse. Does the UK punch a bit below its weight? What of Japan, that has dominated hardware for so long? What's the scene in Russia, latin America, China, Korea, India..? Which company might surprise people in terms of its sales or prevalence in music production?

robotmonkey · Post by **robotmonkey** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 11:19 am

Most of the plugins are made by in programming sweatshops in India.

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:28 pm

Finland and Russia work out the science, Germany turns that into innovative products with a little help from France and the Netherlands, rest of the world do their best to hang on.

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:41 pm

Sonic Charge - Sweden.

FabFilter - Netherlands.

U-He - Germany.

OhmForce - France.

Soundtoys - US.

Dmitry Sches - Belarus.

PSP Audioware - Poland.

Waves - Iran.

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:46 pm

D16 Group - Poland.

Xils-Lab - France.

NI - Germany.

PluginAlliance - Germany.

GForce - UK.

stevebard · Post by **stevebard** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:15 pm

Waves is Iranian? According to the company's about us page it was founded by two Israelis Gilad Keren and Meir Shaashua and Waves ltd was formed in 1992 in Israel and US simultaneously. Is there another Waves music software company?

Some UK sample library companies: Sonic Couture, Spitfire Labs, Sound dust (Pendle Poucher), Hollow Sun.

Applied Acoustics Systems: Canada.

Propellerheads: Sweden.

to add a few to the list.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:22 pm

Yes, Waves is Israelian AFAIK.

There are many german companies in the biz, as you rightly stated: Steinberg, u-he, Synapse Audio, TAL, Cableguys, Sugar Bytes, Bitwig is german based AFAIK, Presonus' Studio One staff too, and so on. Fair enough, when we're lacking behind in other, more important technology sectors, we have to be good at something at least.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:54 pm

chk071 wrote:TAL

Pssst... they're Swiss

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 2:15 pm

Riiight.

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 5:53 pm

stevebard wrote:Waves is Iranian? According to the company's about us page it was founded by two Israelis Gilad Keren and Meir Shaashua and Waves ltd was formed in 1992 in Israel and US simultaneously. Is there another Waves music software company?

Sorry, my bad. Guess is obvious by now that I own 0 Waves plugins...

2CAudio, ValhallaDSP, iZotope - US.

MeldaProduction - Czech Republic.

Goldbaby - New Zeeland.

reusenoise · Post by **reusenoise** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 6:15 pm

IK Multimedia,Skonote,Acustica audio...Italy

Lejurai · Post by **Lejurai** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 6:30 pm

Russia: Voxengo, RedRock Sound
China: Kong Audio (romplers but great ones), 2ndsenseaudio?
UK: FXpansion
USA: GlitchMachines (though Ivanov is born in Bulgaria)
Turkey: KV331 Audio

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 6:35 pm

The history, people or culture of the country itself is not of great importance I think (it's not soccer, lol), but mostly the financial rules and regional room for small businesses and dsp technical educational centers nearby are most influential I guess..?

stevebard · Post by **stevebard** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 6:44 pm

Also from Italy- GSI (VB3, Mr Ray etc).
France: Modartt (Pianoteq), Arturia, UVI.

Spain? Portugal?

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 9:48 pm

stevebard wrote:Also from Italy- GSI (VB3, Mr Ray etc).
France: Modartt (Pianoteq), Arturia, UVI.

Spain? Portugal?

Spain: disco DSP
Portugal: Unfortunately none, although the developer of the Wordbuilder included in East West Symphonic Choirs is portuguese, and there is at least another portuguese working for a IK developer (I think its SynthMagic)

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