Plogue Art et Technologie, Inc.

Plogue Art et Technologie, Inc. is an independent audio software company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It sells its own software and provides its technology to third parties. Its main products include the ARIA Engine, Bidule, chipsounds, sforzando, chipcrusher, chipspeech, and the chipsynth suite (PortaFM, C64, MD, OPS7, SFC). Plogue's technology has been used in products from companies such as Garritan, Makemusic, AVID Technologies, Microsoft, SONY Creative Software, AKAI, and Geniesoft. The company began when David Viens and Sébastien Beaulieu, after earning degrees in Computer Science from University of Montreal, started coding VST plug-ins; the name Plogue was born in 2000 for the release of their first plug-in, Rebuilder.

Plogue's history began during the 1990s, when David Viens and Sébastien Beaulieu were hacking sounds from rare and gloomy gear and making IDM/minimal DJ performances under the name while(1)fork(); at Bily Kun in Montreal. After getting their degree from University of Montreal in Computer Science, they started coding their own VST plug-ins to complement their hardware experimentation. An entity was needed for releasing the first plug-in, Rebuilder; a Quebec Anglicism/slang word for plug came up, and so Plogue was born in 2000. Next came MixedGrains. Today Plogue Art et Technologie, Inc. is an independent audio software company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, selling its own software and providing its technology to third parties.

Independent audio software company that sells its own software and provides its technology to third parties.

• ARIA Engine

  A 64-bit and multi platform sound engine based on the open SFZ format.

• Bidule

  A modular audio environment; a cross-platform application described as the new standard in modular audio software.

• chipsounds

  A VST/AU/AAX software synthesizer that emulates 8-bit sound chips and circuits.

• sforzando

  A free VST/AU/AAX sample player supporting the SFZ format.

• chipcrusher

  A VST/AU/AAX software effect that emulates early digital audio converters.

• chipspeech

  A VST/AU/AAX software synthesizer that emulates early speech synthesizers.

• chipsynth suite

  Includes PortaFM, C64, MD, OPS7, SFC.

1. 1Plogue | Music Software | Developers - Software Synth | Audio Engine | Modular Audio Softwareplogue.com
2. 2Biduleplogue.com
3. 3Plogue | Companyplogue.com
4. 4sforzandoplogue.com