Cockos, Inc is an American

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technology company founded in 2004, most notable for their

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software

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History

Cockos was founded in 2004 by

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after his departure from

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. The company name stems from mis-hearing a quote from the movie

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. While the company also develops small software tools often released under an

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its main focus is on music software. They released their first music software product, a programmable effects processing software called Jesusonic, on December 21, 2004. Following up in 2005, they released the online

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software NINJAM under the

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, with the release of their flagship product

following later that year.

Staff

Cockos currently has two programmers.

, the company founder, probably best known for his work on the

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media player application, and John Schwartz, who joined Cockos in 2008 and is the author of many

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s, notably a

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called Olga. Christophe Thibault, an old colleague of Frankel's from his Nullsoft days, was a Cockos employee between 2005-2014. Thibault is a French programmer and was the founder of the

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and

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projects. In April 2014 he moved to

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References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.cockos.com/ Companies based in San Francisco Software companies established in 2004