Steinberg

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustrySoftware Development
GenreMusic technology
Founded1984 (1984)
FounderKarl Steinberg
Manfred Rürup
Headquarters,
Germany
Key people
Managing Directors: Clyde Sendke, Yoshiyuki Tsugawa, Marco Papini
ProductsCubase, Nuendo, WaveLab, HALion, Dorico, SpectraLayers
ParentYamaha Corporation
Websitesteinberg.net

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH (trading as Steinberg; pronounced [ˈʃtaɪ̯nˌbɛʁk]) is a German musical software and hardware company based in Hamburg. It develops software for writing, recording, arranging and editing music, most notably Cubase, Nuendo, and Dorico. It also designs audio and MIDI hardware interfaces, controllers, and iOS/Android music apps including Cubasis. Steinberg created several industry standard music technologies including the Virtual Studio Technology (VST) format for plug-ins and the ASIO (Audio Stream Input/Output) protocol. Steinberg has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha since 2005.