London, UK (March 9, 2023)—There’s nothing like a worldwide pandemic to upend the established order. Prior to COVID, Audiomovers was a two-man audio software program firm with a small however rising following for its Listento distant collaboration plug-in. Once the world entered the lockdown period, nonetheless, Listento and its sister utility, Omnibus, an audio routing utility/digital patchbay, grew to become essential software program for legions of execs caught working at residence. These days, recordists like Aaron Dessner, Eddie Kramer, Bainz, Future Islands, Dave Fridmann, !llmind, Teezio, Jesse Ray Ernster and George Massenburg depend themselves as followers of the corporate, however now it has a fair greater advocate on its aspect: Abbey Road Studios, which bought Audiomovers in 2021. That can be the endgame for many software program startups, however co-founder/head of product Igor Maxymenko sees it as merely the prologue to greater and higher issues.
Maxymenko has loads of expertise with considering large—and with the pro-audio business, too. Getting his begin within the 2000s at Waves Audio after which Blue Microphones, he labored as a product designer concerned within the creation of widespread merchandise like Tracks Live, DiGiGrid, SoundGrid and MultiRack from Waves, and Yeti Nano and Yeti X from Blue.
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“By this level, my head was exploding with concepts, so I wished to develop these concepts into my very own merchandise,” he says. “Fortunately, alongside the way in which, I met an excellent software program engineer known as Yuriy Shevyrov. Yuriy was already an business veteran and was probably the most gifted audio developer I had ever met. He’d already labored for Avid, Waves Audio and Universal Audio once I met him. We determined to crew up and attempt to construct one thing we felt was lacking that sound engineers would recognize: a distant collaboration plug-in. As a music producer, I all the time puzzled why it was so onerous to stream multichannel audio, together with lossless PCM, over the web. We felt it needs to be simple.”
Writing code in Kyiv, Ukraine, Shevyrov knocked out a working prototype throughout three weeks in 2017, and shortly Audiomovers was born with Listento as its first product. It was nonetheless a side-hustle, nonetheless, with each males working full-time for different firms—and that was nice at first. After three years, nonetheless, the software program had developed a stable user-base within the U.S. and U.Okay., and its function set had grown as effectively. “We’ve labored to cater for this bigger viewers we’ve discovered, including improved performance like extra audio codecs, the power to obtain audio not solely within the browser, however immediately within the DAW and on cell gadgets, and we’ve simply launched MIDI streaming,” says Maxymenko, including that extra options and purposes are on the way in which.
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With a lot taking place, it was clear Audiomovers couldn’t stay as a two-man operation. “We wanted assist taking it to the following degree,” Maxymenko confirms. “As if by magic, we discovered a house on the most iconic studio on the planet: We had been acquired by Abbey Road Studios. Yuriy and I now head up the product and expertise imaginative and prescient for the enterprise, with the Abbey Road crew constructing the operations surrounding us.” Today, Maxymenko, Shevyrov and Audiomovers are based mostly in London together with the corporate’s industrial and advertising crew, however the remainder of the 20-employee firm is scattered world wide. “Our builders are based mostly in Ukraine and so they create superb merchandise, in opposition to all the chances…. We are rising, with personnel within the UK, Ukraine, France and Canada—and shortly within the U.S.”
Recognition for the corporate is beginning to come from world wide as effectively; Audiomovers lately gained a CEDEC Audio Excellence Award in Japan, and Listento is seeing rising adoption by the movie and TV industries, in addition to instructional establishments. That bodes effectively as the corporate prepares to take its applied sciences in new instructions: “We’re at present engaged on new merchandise that can develop our providing into barely completely different areas than the place we began in audio streaming, which I believe will open us to new audiences once more,” says Maxymenko. “You can count on to see some very thrilling new merchandise from us this 12 months which can additional simplify workflows for anybody working with audio.”
No matter how far afield Audiomovers goes, nonetheless, it is going to proceed to make use of the holistic improvement method it utilized to its first choices. “Tools for audio needs to be as simple and dependable as the only apps in your iPhone, like reserving a cab or getting a supply,” Maxymenko says. “Technology shouldn’t be a barrier. Audiomovers merchandise are eradicating these limitations; they make issues which had been troublesome or advanced simple.”