Digidesign announced they have acquired Wizoo Sound Design, headquartered in Bremen, Germany. Wizoo is a pioneering developer of virtual instruments, sample libraries, and real-time effects led by keyboardist, sound designer and author Peter Gorges, Steinberg co-founder Manfred Ruerup, and legendary film composer Hans Zimmer. Popular Wizoo-branded products on the market today include Darbuka and Latigo. Wizoo also provides essential components for many other influential virtual instrument products with their broad array of synthesis and sampling “engineware technologies” and high-quality sound libraries.
By teaming with Wizoo, Digidesign plans to deliver powerful integrated synthesis and sampling instruments that provide high levels of quality and reliability for music creation, post production, and sound design. In addition to the great products Wizoo currently offers, they’ll be creating new products for Pro Tools that promise to be as ground-breaking as Turbosynth and SampleCell were earlier in Digidesign’s history.
Current Wizoo products will continue to be distributed through M-Audio. Future products will be branded and distributed by Digidesign.