Muse Group
| Muse Group's logo. | |
| Parent company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Music, Notation software |
| Founded 📆 | July 29, 2020, announced publically April 26, 2021[1] |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Martin Keary |
| Products 📟 | |
| Services | Software as a service |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | mu |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Muse Group is a parent company to open-source and private software for music notation and audio editing. Formed in July 2020 but only announced the following April, it owns a number of websites and programs including Ultimate Guitar, MuseScore, and Audacity.[2][3] Its actual company name is MuseCY Holdings Ltd,[4][5] and it is represented in the US legally by Anthony Berman of Berman Entertainment and Technology Law (BEAT-LAW).[6]
History[edit]
On April 26, 2021, the Muse Group released a press release announcing the launch of their group.[7] The company already existed for 8 months before that, as there was a company filing in July 2020.[4] According to LinkedIn[8] and their own press release,[7] Muse Group is headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus. LinkedIn also shows the following additional office locations: Kaliningrad, Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia; and London, Great Britain.[8]
Products[edit]
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Acquisitions from Ultimate Guitar USA LLC[edit]
Ultimate Guitar USA LLC is a Limited Liability Company based in California,[9] founded in 1998. The company created Tonebridge in 2016 and acquired MuseScore in 2017, before itself being acquired by Muse Group in April 2021.
Ultimate Guitar[edit]
Ultimate Guitar is a tablature archive and online community for guitarists, created by Eugeny Naidenov on October 9, 1998.[10][9]
Tonebridge[edit]
Tonebridge is a guitar effects application for Apple and Android devices, downloadable from their respective app stores.[11][12]
MuseScore[edit]
MuseScore is cross-platform digital music notation software, founded in 2008[13] and officially released in February 2011.[14] It is paired with a freemium mobile score viewer and an online service, Musescore.com, where users can publicly upload scores created with the software.[15]
Audacity[edit]
Audacity is a cross-platform, open-source, audio editor founded in 1999, and first published in May 28, 2000. It was acquired in 2021 but still remains open-source.[3]
StaffPad[edit]
StaffPad is a scorewriting application for tablet devices, designed to convert users' stylus strokes into notation. It was first released for use on Microsoft's Surface Pro 3[16] and was subsequently released on iPadOS on 5 February 2020.[17] It was acquired in 2021.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Muse Group Launches to Support Music Tech Brands". April 26, 2021. Retrieved May 6, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Rothman, Philip (2021-04-30). "Muse Group formed to support MuseScore, Ultimate Guitar; acquires Audacity". Scoring Notes. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rogerson, Ben (May 2021). "Ultimate Guitar owner Muse Group acquires Audacity, pledging to keep it free and open-source". MusicRadar. Retrieved 2021-06-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Company filing in Cyprus". Retrieved 2021-05-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Privacy Policy". mu.se. Archived from the original on 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2021-05-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Trademark dispute filing". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Muse Group Launches to Support Music Tech Brands". mu.se. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Muse Group | LinkedIn". 2021-05-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Ultimate Guitar - Terms Of Service". Ultimate Guitar. May 4, 2020. Archived from the original on June 1, 2021. Retrieved June 1, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Dymshits, Daniil (2016-07-08). "Behind the scenes at the biggest website for bedroom guitarists". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
- ↑ August 2016, Guitar Player Staff 11. "Tonebridge Gives You 1,000+ Classic Guitar Tones for Free". Guitar Player. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
- ↑ "Presenting Tonebridge for Android". www.ultimate-guitar.com. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
- ↑ "MuseScore, A Free Open-Souce Music Composition And Notation Program". MusTech.Net - Music Education & Technology. 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
- ↑ "Release notes for MuseScore 1.0". MuseScore.org. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
- ↑ comment, 08 Jan 2015 Robert Douglass Feed 378up 1. "Crowdsourcing a new edition of a Bach masterpiece". Opensource.com. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
- ↑ Pitts, Stuart (March 31, 2015). "StaffPad and Surface: the most natural and fluid way to write music digitally". Windows Blogs. Archived from the original on June 1, 2021. Retrieved June 1, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Warren, Tom (2020-02-05). "StaffPad, a stunning Windows music writing app, is now available on iPad". The Verge. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
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