Industry Software CEO Gilad Keren (1992–) Founded 1992 | Website Waves.com Headquarters Israel | |
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Products Plug-ins for audio production, audio equipment Founders Gilad Keren, Meir Shaashua, Chief Technological Officer Profiles | ||
Behind the scenes at waves audio documentary 2015
Waves Audio Ltd. is a developer and supplier of professional digital audio signal processing technologies and audio effects, used in recording, mixing, mastering, post production, broadcast, and live sound. The company's corporate headquarters and main development facilities are located in Tel Aviv, with additional offices in the United States, China, and Taiwan, and development centers in India and the Ukraine.
Contents
- Behind the scenes at waves audio documentary 2015
- History
- Products
- Copyright and trademark lawsuits
- References
In 2011, Waves won a Technical Grammy Award.
History
Waves Audio was founded in 1992 by Gilad Keren and Meir Sha'ashua. Later that year, Waves released its first product, the Q10 Paragraphic Equalizer. The Q10 was the audio industry's first commercially available audio plugin.
Waves launched the Waves Signature Series working with music producers and engineers to explore their unique sounds. In 2009, as part of the Signature Series, Waves released the Eddie Kramer Signature Series of five plug-ins focusing on classic rock. The Chris Lord-Alge Signature Series followed in 2010. That same year, Waves announced the release of its SoundGrid technology at the Winter NAMM show. SoundGrid was created to make Waves audio processors available on a low-latency platform.
In 2011, the company was honored with a Technical Grammy Award for "contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field."
The Waves Signature Series continued in 2013 with the Manny Marroquin Signature Series. In 2015, Waves worked with music producer Butch Vig to release the Butch Vig Vocals plug-in as part of the Waves Signature Series.
Waves launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2016 to help fund the production of Waves Nx, a technology that transmits 3D audio on headphones in stereo or 5.1/7.1 surround sound.
Products
Waves has launched plug-ins in collaboration with Abbey Road Studios, such as the King's Microphones plug-in released in 2011, the REDD Console plug-ins released in 2012, the J37 tape saturation plug-in, the RS56 Passive EQ plug-in released in 2013, and the EMI TG12345 plug-in released in 2014.
Under its Maxx brand, Waves offers its technologies as licensable algorithms for consumer electronics. Technologies from the Maxx brand have been used in products including computers, laptops, smartphones, VoIP and portable loudspeaker systems from companies such as Dell, Toshiba, Sony, Oppo, OnePlus, Sanyo, JVC, and Altec Lansing.
Copyright and trademark lawsuits
In 2010, Waves Audio was involved in two lawsuits regarding intellectual property infringements and illegal use of its software. In one lawsuit, with the defendant Skyline Recording Studios NYC, Waves won, and in the other, with the defendant Quad Recording Studios, the defendant admitted liability.
In 2013, Waves Audio sued Motorola Mobility for allegedly infringing on its Maxx trademark with the Droid Razr Maxx and Droid Razr Maxx HD phones.