NOTE: George Petersen inducted Opcode’s Studio Vision into the TEC Awards’ TECnology Hall of Fame in 2008…Ideas sometimes come when you least expect them. In the late ’80s, Paul de Benedictis — Opcode’s marketing guy — and Digidesign software engineer Mark Jeffery were carpooling from San Francisco to the South Bay office park where both companies were located.
During one of their 30-minute commutes, these two musicians considered the possibility of combining the power of Opcode’s Vision MIDI sequencer with the digital audio capabilities of Digidesign’s Sound Tools and Audiomedia recording systems. Excited about the prospect, Opcode founder Dave Oppenheim worked with fellow code writer David Willenbrink (co-founder of Blank software) to make it happen. It worked. Audio data was displayed as tracks of waveforms and could be cut/pasted/manipulated as easily as MIDI tracks, and the software was the talk of Winter NAMM on its debut in January 1990. VISIT THE PAGE HERE
