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The Phonautograph
The Phonautograph was first invented by Leon Scott in France in 1857. -
The First Music Video
The first music video would be "The Little Lost Child" using a "magic lantern" a series of still images projected on to a screen. -
First Radio Broadcast
The first radio broadcast by presented by Reginald A.Fessenden and was transmitted from Brant Rock, Massachusetts to the general public. -
First pair of Headphones
Headphones were originated from the telephone receiver ear piece which was first invented by Nathaniel Baldwin. -
First Analog Synth
The earliest Analog Synthesizers such as the Trautonium were built between the 1920's and 30's. -
The First Magnetic Tape
Magnetic Tape was first invented for recording sound by Fritz Pfleumer in Germany. -
The First Electric Piano
Among the earliest Electric pianos was the Neo-Bechstein in Humboldt University in Berlin. -
Electric Bass Guitar
The first known electric bass guitar was manufactured by Paul Tutmarc in Seattle. -
First Hi-Fi System
While Hi-Fi LP's weren't publicly available until the 1950's, the technology to record high fidelity audio came much earlier. The first instance of Hi-fi recorded audio by RCA Victor and the Philadelphia Orchestra. -
First Electric guitar
The first prototype electric guitar was was developed by Les Paul. However, they were first mass produced in 1948 as the fender Esquire/Broadcaster -
First Effect Unit
DeArmond released the Trem-Trol, the first commercially available stand-alone effects unit. -
Fender Stratocaster
The discovery of the Fender Stratocaster was a big change and was groundbreaking and brought a new sound to Rock n Roll. The Fender Stratocaster was invented by Leo Fender. -
First tape cassette
The tape cassette was invented by the Philips corporation in Hasselt, Belgium -
Mellotron
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, EnglanD. -
Fender Rhodes
The Fender Rhodes was was a small portable keyboard consisting of 32 keys, The Door's keyboardist Ray Manzarek was one of the most prominent musicians to use it. -
PolyMoog
The polymoog was a polyphonic analog synthesizer and was made by Robert Moog, the polymoog had 71 keys. -
Tascam Portastudio
The Tascam Portastudio was the first four-track recorder based on a standard cassette tape and was discovered by the Company Tascam . -
Synclavier
Manufactured by New England Digital Corporation and was revolutionary to the Electronic Music Scene. -
Roland MC-8 Microcomposer
Developed by Roland, the MC-8 Microcomposer was a pioneer in Sequencing technology and was used by mainly popular musicians such as Giorgio Moroder and Kraftwerk. -
Roland CR-78
Created by Roland and was revolutionary at the time as it was the first of it's kind to allow the programming and storage of custom drum patterns. -
Fairlight CMI
Developed by Fairlight, the CMI was a build your own synthesizer and was one of the first Digital Audio Workstations to offer sampling capabilities, being rather pricey ranging up to £30.000. -
The first use of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
The first MIDI synthesizers were the Roland Jupiter 6 and also the Prophet 600. -
The creation of Pro Tools (Sound Designer).
The first incarnation was introduced under the brand named Sound Designer. Developed by Evan Brooks and Peter Gotcher. -
The first portable CD player.
Sony was the first to create a portable CD player called the Discman. -
First Analog Mixing Desk
The first known Analog mixing desk was invented in 1987. -
First ADAT (Alesis Digital Audio Tape)
The product was first announce in January 1991 at the NAMM convention -
The Logic DAW is released
First created by Emagic in 1993, later being sold to Apple in 2002. -
Digital mixing consoles first use
Digital mixing consoles were first used in 1993 -
First use of MP3
The first use of MP3 was released in 1993 was called a "MP Man" -
Limewire Release date.
Developed by Mark Howard Gorton in 2000 and then was discontinued in 2010. -
Youtube
Developed in California by three former paypal employers. Later being brought by Google in 2006 for $1.65Billion. -
Spotify
First released in Stockholm,Sweden by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. -
Apple Music
The service was announced on June 8th 2015 and was then released in over 100 countries across the world.