Arturia

Arturia is a software company located in Grenoble, France and founded in 1999 by Frédéric Brun and Gilles Pommereuil, both INPG-qualified engineers. The company's focus is on the development of electronic music software and tools - primarily emulation of vintage analog synthesizers. Arturia’s strength is its great capacity for innovation. Arturia's recreations are said to be so "astounding" that the company even received accolades from Robert A. Moog, the inventor of the Moog Synthesizer. The company's products are in use by a number of notable musicians on a large number of movie soundtracks and hit records.

Early analog instruments such as the Minimoog and Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 had analog components and were known for their instability "on the road" and for their oscillators "drifting." In recent years, computer processing power has advanced to the point that companies such as Arturia have been able to emulate these classic instruments with some degree of accuracy.

The most important Arturia's core technology is TAE (True Analog Emulation), a technique which allows for the accurate modelling of the behavior of analog circuits on a personal computer. This technology, developed by Arturia, has been employed to successfully recreate the sounds produced by many analog synthesizers.