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Steinberg

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is a Hamburg-based music software developer behind Cubase, Nuendo, Dorico, WaveLab and SpectraLayers, the latter with AI-driven audio extraction and repair tools.

Subsidiary of Yamaha

Founded1984

HeadquartersHamburg, Germany

StatusAcquired

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• SpectraLayers Application Sold on its own

  Spectral audio editor whose AI processes unmix a finished track into stems, and stems into component parts, for repair, restoration and remixing.

• Cubase Pro 15 Application Sold on its own

  Desktop music production software (a digital audio workstation) whose Pro edition includes AI stem separation to pull vocals and instruments out of a mixed track.

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No sourced competitor yet: no filing, vendor document or measured-market report read so far names a rival for this company, so none is asserted. The companies below are the closest by what their products do.

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MAMusic AIEarly-stageCubase Pro 15 and Moises Live both list audio editing; both also serve buyers who need to pull the vocals or the music out of a track; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; Music AI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareGLGaudio LabEarly-stageCubase Pro 15 and Gaudio Studio both list audio editing; both also serve buyers who need to pull the vocals or the music out of a track; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; Gaudio Lab's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareIiZotopeAcquiredSpectraLayers and RX both list audio editing; both also serve buyers who need to pull the vocals or the music out of a track; both acquired, so no independent scale on either side.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareLLALAL.AIUndisclosedCubase Pro 15 and LALAL.AI both list audio editing; both also serve buyers who need to pull the vocals or the music out of a track; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; LALAL.AI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareFFadrUndisclosedCubase Pro 15 and Fadr Stems both list audio editing; both also serve buyers who need to pull the vocals or the music out of a track; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; Fadr's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareAAudioShakeEarly-stageSpectraLayers and AudioShake Live both list audio editing; both also serve buyers who need to pull the vocals or the music out of a track; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; AudioShake's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareBFBoris FXUndisclosedCubase Pro 15 and CrumplePop both list audio editing; both also serve buyers who need to pull the vocals or the music out of a track; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; Boris FX's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSSunoLate-stageCubase Pro 15 and Suno Studio both list audio editing; both also serve buyers who need to pull the vocals or the music out of a track; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareEElevenLabsLate-stageSpectraLayers and Voice Isolator both list audio editing; both also serve buyers who need to pull the vocals or the music out of a track; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSSoundverseUndisclosedCubase Pro 15 and Soundverse both list audio editing; both also serve buyers who need to pull the vocals or the music out of a track; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; Soundverse's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareLLoudlyUndisclosedCubase Pro 15 and Loudly Studio both list audio editing; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; Loudly's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareUUdioEarly-stageCubase Pro 15 and Udio both list audio editing; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; Udio's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSSOUNDRAWUndisclosedCubase Pro 15 and SOUNDRAW both list audio editing; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; SOUNDRAW's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareDDescriptUndisclosedCubase Pro 15 and Descript both list audio editing; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; Descript's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareAAdobePublicCubase Pro 15 and Adobe Podcast both list audio editing; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareIIntelPublicCubase Pro 15 and OpenVINO AI Plugins for Audacity both list audio editing; both also serve buyers who need to pull the vocals or the music out of a track; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareKKrispUndisclosedCubase Pro 15 and Krisp both list audio editing; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; Krisp's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareMMubertUndisclosedCubase Pro 15 and Mubert Cast both list audio editing; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; Mubert's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSASkywork AIUndisclosedCubase Pro 15 and Mureka Co both list audio editing; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale; Skywork AI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareHHeyGenEarly-stageCubase Pro 15 and HeyGen both list audio editing; Steinberg is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompare

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Sources

Total funding

Checked — none published

No funding rounds exist: Steinberg is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation (acquired 2004). Read steinberg.net home, /legal/imprint/, /legal/privacy/; Yamaha press releases 2004 and 2025.

Founded

Press release · 5 Oct 2026

"Founded in 1984, Steinberg Media Technologies is the market share leader in computer software used to produce music." — Yamaha press release, 21 Dec 2004 (attributes the founding year; the market-share claim is Yamaha's 2004 wording and not reused). Steinberg's own about page redirect-loops under curl.

Status

Press release · 9 Oct 2025

Yamaha Corporation news release: "...it has taken over hardware business of Steinberg, its wholly owned subsidiary." The same release: "Steinberg joined the Yamaha Group in 2005" (agreed 2004-12-20, approved by the German government 2005-01-21). Kept as its own record (own brand, domain and products), status acquired; the subsidiary_of relation to yamaha is in relations.json.

Description

Official documentation · 5 Oct 2026

"Unmatched selection tools developed over many years are now joined by new artificial intelligence-driven audio extraction and repair processes" — SpectraLayers product page; legal entity name from https://www.steinberg.net/legal/imprint/: "Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Beim Strohhause 31 20097 Hamburg Germany".

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