Hybrid Arts

Hybrid Arts

Also known as: Hybrid Arts, Inc., HAI

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Hybrid Arts was a Los Angeles-based music software and hardware company founded in 1983 by Robert Moore. The company became one of the earliest developers of MIDI tools for personal computers, demonstrating the first SIO-to-MIDI bridge on an Atari 800 connected to a Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 in October 1983. Alongside Steinberg and C-Lab, Hybrid Arts was one of the dominant MIDI platforms...

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Hybrid Arts was a Los Angeles-based music software and hardware company founded in 1983 by Robert Moore. The company became one of the earliest developers of MIDI tools for personal computers, demonstrating the first SIO-to-MIDI bridge on an Atari 800 connected to a Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 in October 1983. Alongside Steinberg and C-Lab, Hybrid Arts was one of the dominant MIDI platforms on the Atari ST during that machine's run as a studio standard.

The product line covered sequencing, scoring, synth editing, and algorithmic composition. Notable titles included the MIDITrack family of sequencers (with SMPTETrack and SyncTrack variants), the entry-level EZ-Track, EZ-Score Plus for notation and printing, CZ-Android for Casio CZ-series editing and librarian work, GenEdit as a universal patch editor for synths like the Yamaha DX7 and Roland D-50, and Ludwig for algorithmic composition. The company also produced hardware accessories such as the MIDIMate interface and the SMPTE Sync Box for tape and video sync.

Its most ambitious product was the ADAP (Audio Digital Arts Processor), a hard-disk digital audio workstation for the Atari ST that placed it among the early players in computer-based digital recording.

Hybrid Arts has 4 products cataloged on Equipboard, including MIDI Interfaces and DAW Software.

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