TerraTec Electronic GmbH is a German manufacturer of

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, video grabbers and

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s. TerraTec is mainly known for its sound cards, and is the largest German producer of them. The company was founded by Walter Grieger and Heiko Meertz in 1994 in

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. Both Grieger and Meerts are still CEOs of the company. There was a time when Terratec mainly produced graphic cards. But it dropped the production later and focused on sound cards. Furthermore, TerraTec is distributing hardware and software products like professionally studio software

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for musicians or hardware like ''PhonoPreAmpiVinyl'' to digitalizing recordings from vinyl or tapes to digital audio formats. TerraTec also produces the "Axon" brand of Pitch-to-MIDI or

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converters. AXON's current models include the AX100 and the AX50USB.

Products

Sound hardware

ISA cards

*EWS 64 *EWS 88 PCI card *EWX 24/96 *Maestro series *Gold series *Base 1 *Base 2 *WT64 ( wavetable add-on)

PCI cards

*Solo 1 *DMX *DMX XFire 1024 *DMX 6Fire PCI *128i PCI *512i Digital *Aureon 7.1 *Aureon 7.1 Universe

External devices

*DMX 6Fire USB *Phase series *Aureon USB series *Aureon 8Fire series *Aureon 7.1 FireWire

TV and Video Capture hardware

*TerraTV series (analog TV/FM tuner) *TerraCAM series (

s) *VideoSystem Cameo (video editing card)

References

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* {{Primary sources, date=January 2007 Manufacturing companies established in 1994 Computer companies of Germany Audio equipment manufacturers of Germany Computer hardware companies Computer peripheral companies German brands Companies based in North Rhine-Westphalia