Mark of the Unicorn
Encyclopedia
Mark of the Unicorn is a music
-related computer software
and hardware
supplier. It is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
and has created music software since 1984.
Products by MOTU include:
Past notable products:
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
-related computer software
Computer software
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....
and hardware
Computer hardware
Personal computer hardware are component devices which are typically installed into or peripheral to a computer case to create a personal computer upon which system software is installed including a firmware interface such as a BIOS and an operating system which supports application software that...
supplier. It is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
and has created music software since 1984.
Products by MOTU include:
- Digital PerformerDigital PerformerDigital Performer is a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation/Sequencer software package published by Mark of the Unicorn of Cambridge, Massachusetts for the Apple Macintosh platform.-Ancestry:...
- AudioDeskAudioDeskAudioDesk is an audio workstation application by Mark of the Unicorn for the Mac OS. It is a multi-track recording, editing, and mixing application, with both offline file-based processing and realtime effects. It is a more basic version of MOTU's Digital Performer DAW software...
- BPM
- MachFive
- MX4
- Unisyn
Past notable products:
- MINCE and SCRIBBLE, an editor and ScribeScribeA scribe is a person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession and helps the city keep track of its records. The profession, previously found in all literate cultures in some form, lost most of its importance and status with the advent of printing...
-like text formatter for CP/M machines - FinalWord word processor (sold and became SprintSprint (word processor)Sprint was a powerful and programmable text-based word processor for DOS, first published by Borland in 1987.__FORCETOC__- History :Sprint originally appeared as the "FinalWord" application, developed by Jason Linhart, Craig Finseth, Scott Layson Burson, Brian Hess, and Bill Spitzak at Mark of the...
). - Professional Composer, one of the first graphical music-notation editors
- Mouse Stampede, arguably the first arcade-style game available for the Apple Macintosh (1984)
- Hex game for the Atari ST and Amiga computers (released in 1985)
- The first FireWire Audio Interface for Mac and Windows.
External links
- MOTU Official MOTU site
- MOTUNATION.com formerly UnicorNation; popular user forum for MOTU products
- MOTU and DP Blog LoudMac's Pro Audio, Music & Mac Blog