inMusic is an American enterprise that is the parent company for a family of brands of varying audio products used in the DJ, music production,

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, and

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industries. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Cumberland, Rhode Island, with additional offices in

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and

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History

Numark

In 1992, future inMusic founder and CEO Jack O’Donnell was working as Vice President of Sales at

Stanton Magnetics Stanton Magnetics, doing business as Stanton, is a business unit of inMusic Brands that designs and markets turntables, cartridges, DJ mixers, DJ media players, and DJ controllers. History Stanton Magnetics was founded in 1946 by Norman C ...

when he learned the assets of Numark Electronics were available for purchase. Founded in

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in 1971, Numark was among the earliest DJ equipment manufacturers, and responsible for innovations like the first

DJ mixer A DJ mixer is a type of audio mixing console used by disc jockeys (DJs) to control and manipulate multiple audio signals. Some DJs use the mixer to make seamless transitions from one song to another when they are playing records at a dance clu ...

with a built-in sampler (the DM1775) and the first dual-well CD player (the CD-5020).Eisenberg, Anne
"For Disc Jockeys as Well as Desk Jockeys"
The New York Times, January 20, 2008. Retrieved on December 3, 2013.
The New York Times, August 23, 2007. Retrieved on December 3, 2013."Company Overview of Numark Industries, LP"
''Businessweek'' Retrieved on December 3, 2013. O’Donnell proposed to Stanton management that they should acquire Numark's assets, but they chose not to, and O’Donnell decided to resign from his position at Stanton and purchase Numark himself.

Alesis and more acquisitions

Under O’Donnell's management, Numark recovered and grew, and he found himself looking for new opportunities. In 2001 O’Donnell acquired

Alesis Alesis is an electronic music company that designs and markets electronic musical instruments, digital audio processors, audio mixers, drum amplifiers, amplifiers, digital audio interfaces, recording equipment, drum machines, professional audio ...

,"Jack O'Donnell - owner of Alesis and Numark"
''Pro Music News'' 2001. Retrieved on December 3, 2013. a company that had established itself in the recording market with affordable

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and later the revolutionary ADAT digital tape recorder, as well as drum machines and

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

s. The following year he introduced the

ION Audio ION Audio is a privately held consumer electronics manufacturer based in Cumberland, Rhode Island, United States. It is part of inMusic Brands. The company was founded in 2002 with the stated aim of providing easy-to-use audio products at an afford ...

brand, focused on entry-level and

products. In 2005, O’Donnell purchased the Akai Professional Musical Instrument division (previously spun off from Akai Electronics). Musical instrument designer Roger Linn has accused that immediately following the acquisition, Akai ceased all royalty payments owed to him, and that O'Donnell sent legal threats warning him away from attempting to collect further royalties. His company additionally acquired DJ software brand Mixmeister in 2007 and Alto Professional in 2010.

M-Audio

In February 2012 O’Donnell acquired

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company Sonivox, and in July of the same year, he acquired

M-Audio M-Audio (formerly Midiman) is a business unit of inMusic Brands that designs and markets audio and MIDI interfaces, keyboards and MIDI controllers, synthesizers, loudspeakers, studio monitors, digital DJ systems, microphones, and music software. ...

and the AIR Software Group from

Avid Technology, Inc. Avid Technology is an American technology and multimedia company based in Burlington, Massachusetts, and founded in August 1987 by Bill Warner. It specialises in Digital audio, audio and video; specifically, digital Non-linear editing system, no ...

for $17 million.

Further growth

In April 2014, inMusic acquired Denon DJ, Denon Professional and Marantz Professional from D&M Holdings, who retained the non-professional consumer divisions of those brands. In August 2015, the company launched a new brand of

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products, MARQ. In July 2016, inMusic acquired

Rane Corporation Rane Corporation is an American pro audio equipment manufacturer. Located in Mukilteo, Washington, it was made up of former employees of Phase Linear Corporation, and started out with products aimed at small live bands. They now carry many pro ...

. In 2017, leveraging the legacy of the Akai pedal of the same name, inMusic launched a new line of guitar effects processing products branded HeadRush. In May 2018, the inMusic company Denon DJ acquired SoundSwitch. In April 2020, inMusic acquired

ROLI ROLI is a London-based music technology company known for its innovative high tech musical instruments, particularly the ROLI Seaboard, a MIDI controller with soft, rubbery keys and continuous, rather than discrete, pitches, and pitch-bending c ...

's subsidiary FXpansion's drum software instrument BFD. In May of the same year, inMusic acquired Stanton from Gibson Brands.

Brands

*AIR Music Technology *

Akai Professional Akai ( ja, 赤井, ) is a Hong Kong manufacturer of consumer electronics. It was founded as Akai Electric Company Ltd in Tokyo, Japan, in 1946. Grande Holdings in Hong Kong purchased the Akai brand, and now distributes various electronic produ ...

*Alto Professional *Denon Professional *Denon DJ *HeadRush *

*Marantz Professional *MARQ Lighting *MixMeister *Numark * Rane *Sonivox *SoundSwitch * Stanton

References

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External links

inMusic Brands official website
Music equipment manufacturers Manufacturers of professional audio equipment DJ equipment Audio equipment manufacturers of the United States