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Automated Processes, Inc.
Automated Processes Inc. (API or API Audio) is an American company that designs, manufactures, and markets mixing consoles and signal processors, including modular signal processor units in the 500-series format standard that evolved from early API mixing consoles.
Automated Processes, Inc (API) was founded in 1969 by Lou Lindauer and Saul Walker two years after they designed a mixing console for Apostolic Recording Studio, the first 12-track recording studio in New York City.
The first commercial API mixing console, a modular design combining the newly developed 500-series format signal processor units was sold to Sound Ideas in New York as API rose to the challenge of capturing high quality audio that defined the era.
Staffed by engineers and musicians with a vision to create high quality professional audio gear, throughout the seventies, API mixing consoles and processors achieved considerable popularity in recording studios, including Decca, The Hit Factory, Sunset Sound, Updown Studios, RAK Studios; major broadcast facilities, including ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC; and others, including Eastman School of Music, the White House, Washington National Cathedral, the United States Marine Band. Notable users included Les Paul, Jimmy Page, Leon Russell, The Doobie Brothers, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder.
During this golden era for recording, API achieved a number of firsts, including conductive plastic faders; a computer-programmable console with automation of EQ, sends, pans and faders which eventually became Total Recall; the first Voltage Controlled Amplifier (VCA) designed by Walker; an early tape synchronizer system; and micro-processor based crosspoint intercoms for broadcast and production, which become the basis for the discrete series bus assignment system.
In 1978, Datatronix licensed the rights to API from the owners. Founder Saul Walker and most of the original engineers, including Sid Zimet, Michael Tapes, and Paul Galburt, who had designed the API 554 sweep and the 954 automated equalizers, went to work for Sound Workshop.
In 1985, the assets of API were purchased by Paul Wolff, who owned the company until 1999. Wolff introduced the API Lunchbox, a portable lunchbox-sized chassis for housing up to four API 500-series modules.
By 1992, the manufacturer’s first full Legacy console was installed in Greene Street Recording in New York.
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Automated Processes, Inc.
Automated Processes Inc. (API or API Audio) is an American company that designs, manufactures, and markets mixing consoles and signal processors, including modular signal processor units in the 500-series format standard that evolved from early API mixing consoles.
Automated Processes, Inc (API) was founded in 1969 by Lou Lindauer and Saul Walker two years after they designed a mixing console for Apostolic Recording Studio, the first 12-track recording studio in New York City.
The first commercial API mixing console, a modular design combining the newly developed 500-series format signal processor units was sold to Sound Ideas in New York as API rose to the challenge of capturing high quality audio that defined the era.
Staffed by engineers and musicians with a vision to create high quality professional audio gear, throughout the seventies, API mixing consoles and processors achieved considerable popularity in recording studios, including Decca, The Hit Factory, Sunset Sound, Updown Studios, RAK Studios; major broadcast facilities, including ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC; and others, including Eastman School of Music, the White House, Washington National Cathedral, the United States Marine Band. Notable users included Les Paul, Jimmy Page, Leon Russell, The Doobie Brothers, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder.
During this golden era for recording, API achieved a number of firsts, including conductive plastic faders; a computer-programmable console with automation of EQ, sends, pans and faders which eventually became Total Recall; the first Voltage Controlled Amplifier (VCA) designed by Walker; an early tape synchronizer system; and micro-processor based crosspoint intercoms for broadcast and production, which become the basis for the discrete series bus assignment system.
In 1978, Datatronix licensed the rights to API from the owners. Founder Saul Walker and most of the original engineers, including Sid Zimet, Michael Tapes, and Paul Galburt, who had designed the API 554 sweep and the 954 automated equalizers, went to work for Sound Workshop.
In 1985, the assets of API were purchased by Paul Wolff, who owned the company until 1999. Wolff introduced the API Lunchbox, a portable lunchbox-sized chassis for housing up to four API 500-series modules.
By 1992, the manufacturer’s first full Legacy console was installed in Greene Street Recording in New York.
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