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Turtle Beach Corporation
The Turtle Beach Corporation (commonly referred to as Turtle Beach) is an American gaming accessory manufacturer[citation needed] based in San Diego, California. The company has roots dating back to the 1970s where it developed sound cards, MIDI synthesizers, and various audio software packages and network audio devices. The company began making gaming headsets in 2005.
Turtle Beach Corp. has roots dating back to 1975, founded by Carmine Bonanno in Queens, New York as Octave Electronics, later becoming Octave-Plateau and then Voyetra Technologies. Turtle Beach began as "Turtle Beach Softworks", founded in 1985 by Roy Smith and Robert Hoke.
Octave was known for the Cat Synthesizer, designed by Carmine and released in 1976. In 1979 it became Octave Plateau and was known for the Voyetra Eight Synthesizer, also designed by Carmine. It also pioneered Music Software for the IBM PC and created one of the first music sequencer programs, called Sequencer Plus. In 1986, the company changed its name to Voyetra Technologies, exited the synthesizer business and concentrated on music software. Voyetra Technologies was one of the original companies included in the MIDI standard, and had developed drivers and software for nearly every sound card manufacturer in the world during the early 1990s. In 1996, Voyetra Technologies acquired Turtle Beach Systems, changed its name to Voyetra Turtle Beach and focused primarily on sound cards and music composition software.
Turtle Beach System's first product was a graphical editing system that supported the breakthrough Ensoniq Mirage sampling keyboard. The Mirage was the first low cost sampling device that allowed musicians to play realistic choirs, pianos, horns, and other instruments in their performances. The software, called "Vision", connected the Mirage to a PC and used the PC's screen and graphics to make the programming and editing of sounds much easier. Ensoniq decided to resell Vision through their dealer network and Turtle Beach Softworks became a profitable company.
In 1988, Turtle Beach Systems began to work on developing its first hardware product, a hard disk–based audio editing system. Among the first of its kind, the product was named the "56K digital recording system" and was released in 1990. In 1990, Turtle Beach began developing its second PC sound card. This card used high quality A/D and D/A, a high quality synthesizer from eMu, and an onboard DSP chip. This product was called "MultiSound." The MultiSound product competed with more established products of the day from Advanced Gravis (now defunct), Ad Lib, Inc. (now defunct), Creative Labs, and Media Vision. CCRMA's Music Kit and DSP Tools running on Motorola 56001 DSP, initially developed for NeXTcube system, was later ported on NeXTSTEP with Turtle Beach Fiji/Pinnacle DSP cards.
In December 1996, Turtle Beach Systems was sold by Integrated Circuit Systems to Voyetra Technologies in Yonkers, New York. The new combined company changed its name to Voyetra Turtle Beach, lead by CEO Carmine Bonanno. As Voyetra Turtle Beach, the company sold millions of sound cards to Dell and other major PC manufacturers in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In 2005, the company released its first Ear Force gaming headset model, the AXP. The headset was geared toward computer gamers. Over the following years, the company began focusing primarily on its lines of PC and console gaming headsets, steering away from sound cards almost completely (it did release updated versions of the Audio Advantage USB sound cards in 2010). By 2007, Voyetra Turtle Beach had released several headset models including those that were wireless and those that had surround sound capability. Its models were initially designed specifically for the Xbox 360, PC, or Nintendo Wii. Turtle Beach released its first pair of headphones designed specifically for the PlayStation 3 (Ear Force P21) in 2009.
In October 2010, Stripes Group acquired a majority position in Turtle Beach. In 2011, the company released a limited-edition, officially licensed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 headset. In 2012, it entered into a partnership with Major League Gaming (MLG) that saw the release of headsets specifically designed for tournament gaming and consumer headsets that had official MLG branding. The same year, Turtle Beach acquired Lygo International, a United Kingdom-based distributor and supplier of gaming accessories that had already been Turtle Beach's exclusive distributor and support center for the UK and Ireland since January 2011.
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Turtle Beach Corporation
The Turtle Beach Corporation (commonly referred to as Turtle Beach) is an American gaming accessory manufacturer[citation needed] based in San Diego, California. The company has roots dating back to the 1970s where it developed sound cards, MIDI synthesizers, and various audio software packages and network audio devices. The company began making gaming headsets in 2005.
Turtle Beach Corp. has roots dating back to 1975, founded by Carmine Bonanno in Queens, New York as Octave Electronics, later becoming Octave-Plateau and then Voyetra Technologies. Turtle Beach began as "Turtle Beach Softworks", founded in 1985 by Roy Smith and Robert Hoke.
Octave was known for the Cat Synthesizer, designed by Carmine and released in 1976. In 1979 it became Octave Plateau and was known for the Voyetra Eight Synthesizer, also designed by Carmine. It also pioneered Music Software for the IBM PC and created one of the first music sequencer programs, called Sequencer Plus. In 1986, the company changed its name to Voyetra Technologies, exited the synthesizer business and concentrated on music software. Voyetra Technologies was one of the original companies included in the MIDI standard, and had developed drivers and software for nearly every sound card manufacturer in the world during the early 1990s. In 1996, Voyetra Technologies acquired Turtle Beach Systems, changed its name to Voyetra Turtle Beach and focused primarily on sound cards and music composition software.
Turtle Beach System's first product was a graphical editing system that supported the breakthrough Ensoniq Mirage sampling keyboard. The Mirage was the first low cost sampling device that allowed musicians to play realistic choirs, pianos, horns, and other instruments in their performances. The software, called "Vision", connected the Mirage to a PC and used the PC's screen and graphics to make the programming and editing of sounds much easier. Ensoniq decided to resell Vision through their dealer network and Turtle Beach Softworks became a profitable company.
In 1988, Turtle Beach Systems began to work on developing its first hardware product, a hard disk–based audio editing system. Among the first of its kind, the product was named the "56K digital recording system" and was released in 1990. In 1990, Turtle Beach began developing its second PC sound card. This card used high quality A/D and D/A, a high quality synthesizer from eMu, and an onboard DSP chip. This product was called "MultiSound." The MultiSound product competed with more established products of the day from Advanced Gravis (now defunct), Ad Lib, Inc. (now defunct), Creative Labs, and Media Vision. CCRMA's Music Kit and DSP Tools running on Motorola 56001 DSP, initially developed for NeXTcube system, was later ported on NeXTSTEP with Turtle Beach Fiji/Pinnacle DSP cards.
In December 1996, Turtle Beach Systems was sold by Integrated Circuit Systems to Voyetra Technologies in Yonkers, New York. The new combined company changed its name to Voyetra Turtle Beach, lead by CEO Carmine Bonanno. As Voyetra Turtle Beach, the company sold millions of sound cards to Dell and other major PC manufacturers in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In 2005, the company released its first Ear Force gaming headset model, the AXP. The headset was geared toward computer gamers. Over the following years, the company began focusing primarily on its lines of PC and console gaming headsets, steering away from sound cards almost completely (it did release updated versions of the Audio Advantage USB sound cards in 2010). By 2007, Voyetra Turtle Beach had released several headset models including those that were wireless and those that had surround sound capability. Its models were initially designed specifically for the Xbox 360, PC, or Nintendo Wii. Turtle Beach released its first pair of headphones designed specifically for the PlayStation 3 (Ear Force P21) in 2009.
In October 2010, Stripes Group acquired a majority position in Turtle Beach. In 2011, the company released a limited-edition, officially licensed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 headset. In 2012, it entered into a partnership with Major League Gaming (MLG) that saw the release of headsets specifically designed for tournament gaming and consumer headsets that had official MLG branding. The same year, Turtle Beach acquired Lygo International, a United Kingdom-based distributor and supplier of gaming accessories that had already been Turtle Beach's exclusive distributor and support center for the UK and Ireland since January 2011.