Category:Seer Systems

Seer Systems is software technology company founded in 1992 by Stanley Jungleib, a staff of Sequential Cuircuits.

Seer Systems developed the world’s first commercial software synthesizer in the early 1990’s. Working in conjunction with w:en:Intel, then w:en:Creative Labs, and finally as an independent software developer and retailer, Seer helped lay the groundwork for a major shift in synthesis technology: using personal computers, rather than dedicated synthesizer keyboards, to create music.

• 1992 - Seer Systems was founded by Stanley Jungleib for Intel's software synthesizer project.
• 1993 - software General MIDI synthesizer was developed for Intel
• 1994 - Satie was demonstrated by Intel at Comdex.
• 1995 - Dave Smith (founder of SCI) joined as President
• 1996 - Creative WaveSynth (for Creative Labs AWE64)

using Sondius Wave Guide technology of CCRMA

• 1997 - Reality, a professional software synthesizer for Pentium.

supported synthesis: PCM, subtractive, modal , FM, physical modeling

• 1998 - SeerMusic, a music streaming software

combining MIDI, sample, and synthesis parameters

• 1999 - SurReal, a playback version of the Reality

• Seer Systems (official site).
   See also "Seer Systems Archives" (1992-2005), and whole archived pages (since 1996) on archive.org.
• The Note Museum (distributor). notemuseum.com. "Both Reality and SurReal are available for purchase in the SeerMusic section."