Steinberg

About

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, trading as Steinberg, is a German musical software and hardware company based in Hamburg, Germany, founded in 1984. It specializes in software development for writing, recording, arranging, and editing music, with notable products including Cubase, Nuendo, and Dorico. The company also designs audio and MIDI hardware interfaces, controllers, and iOS/Android music applications like Cubasis. Steinberg is recognized for creating industry-standard music technologies such as the Virtual Studio Technology (VST) format for plug-ins and the ASIO (Audio Stream Input/Output) protocol. Since 2005, Steinberg has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha.