Stephan Bernsee

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Stephan Bernsee
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Born
Stephan Sprenger

1971
Occupation(s) Software developer, DSP Engineer
Website http://www.dspdimension.com

Stephan Bernsee (born 1971) is a digital signal processing applications developer from Germany. [1]

Background

Bernsee is the founder of the audio software company Prosoniq and the principal developer of the sound synthesis technology used in the Hartmann Neuron series of synthesizers, [2] the audio timescale-pitch modification technology behind Prosoniq TimeFactory, its popular vocoder OrangeVocoder and the sonicWORX Isolate application [3] which does pattern detection to allow extracting, manipulating and suppressing individual notes and sounds within a song. He holds a couple of patents, including one for localizing audio in 3D space. [4]

In 2011 he co-founded Zynaptiq, [5] [6] a Hannover-based startup company specializing in reverb removal, polyphonic pitch modification and automatic optimization of music tracks based on artificial intelligence. [7]

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References

  1. "Stephan Bernsee – Master of Sound and Snow". Technorazzi. 2013-02-09. Archived from the original on 2014-03-13. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  2. Rogersonpublished, Ben (2013-05-29). "Neuron VS synth plugin now available for free". MusicRadar. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  3. "MESSE09: Reverse Engineer Your Music".
  4. "AUDIO SPATIALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT SIMULATION - Patent application".
  5. "zynaptiq: news". www.zynaptiq.com. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  6. "Zynaptiq Unmix:Drums". www.soundonsound.com. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  7. "Zynaptiq Unfilter & Unchirp". www.soundonsound.com. Retrieved 2021-12-15.