founded belgium 1994 1 headquarters belgium key people jean marie cannie founder cto frank van biesen founder coo 2 products fl studio fl studio mobile deckadance ezgenerator website www.image line.com image line is a belgian software company best known for its digital audio workstation program fl studio 3 and related audio plugins such as sytrus 4 and harmor 5 founded in 1994 1 in 2007 image line introduced deckadance a virtual dj console application . 3 the company also produces ezgenerator a template based web editing program . 6 contents 1 history 1.1 early development 1.2 didier gol dambrin 1.3 audio software 1.4 other software 2 products 3 see also 4 references 4.1 other references 5 external links history edit early development edit image line was founded by jean marie cannie and frank van biesen who after seven years of creating stock market software for pavell software decided in 1992 to branch into video games . their first product was an adult video game of tetris which they then offered on floppy disks in the ad section of computer magazine . around this time cd rom games such as the 7th guest were becoming popular inspiring van biesen and cannie to begin working with private one of the larger producers of adult video games at the time . private released multiple image line cd rom games including private prison and private castle . 7 8 the company officially adopted the name image line in 1994 . 7 didier gol dambrin edit around the time they released the games for private ibm launched the da vinci contest where the first prizes were color laptops . image line which at the time had little money won the contest in the multimedia category after reworking one of their game environments to fit the contest criteria . 7 8 image line took an interest in didier gol dambrin the developer who won the overall da vinci contest as well as the game category . they hired the 19 year old to work for them and his first game for the company was the game private investigator . 7 8 dambrin s next project for image line was the platform game eat this 9 a shoot em up game that involved killing aliens . 8 other image line developers created products such as the invoicing program fact2000 and e officedirect a content based web tool that would a precursor to their later product ezgenerator . 7 image line also topped the belgian game charts 4 years in a row with their cd version of the belgian tv game show blokken . 7 8 audio software edit in 1997 dambrin gained an interest in music applications of the time such as hammerhead and rebirth 338 and developed a simple midi only drum machine in an effort to merge the two products into a step sequencer that utilized both rows and steps . dubbed fruityloops 1.0 the program didn t fit with image line s other product lines of the time . midi presentation layer 6 . however the demo version released in december 1997 became so popular that the number of downloads quickly overwhelmed the image line servers . 7 to gather income to support their servers image line had dambrin develop an ejay clone called fruitytracks . image line then served as the program s oem for mattel . the program was released as pro dj in france and the uk and radio 538 music machine in the netherlands and belgium . 7 image line continued to develop the fruityloops application from a simple drum machine into a large and complex digital audio workstation . fruityloops was eventually renamed fl studio for branding purposes and to avoid a prolonged trademark dispute in the united states with kelloggs . 7 fl studio is now one of the most popular software production systems in the world and image line s flagship program . 3 a multitude of plug ins have been developed by image line to work with fl studio including synthesizers such as sytrus and effects plugins such as maximus and edison . 3 in 2007 image line released deckadance a dj mixing program developed by programmer arguru . deckadance works as both a stand alone program and as a fl studio plugin . other software edit beyond audio products image line developed and distributes ezgenerator a software program for website design and maintenance . ezgenerator has won multiple awards since its release . 6 products edit software release notes fl studio 1998 present image line s flagship digital audio workstation . the most recent version is fl studio 12 released on april 22 2015 . 10 fl studio mobile 2011 present released june 21 2011 a version of fl studio for ios 10 and on april 17 2013 for android deckadance 2007 present a dj console and mixing tool similar to scratch live and traktor . version 2.09 is the most recent release . 11 ezgenerator a template based web editing program and a natural progression of their earlier e officedirect program ezgenerator has won numerous software awards . 6 fact2000 an invoicing and contact management program . no longer sold . fruitytracks a track mixing program . no longer sold was integrated into fl studio . video games release notes porntris 1992 an erotic version of the popular tetris game . 12 13 private investigator 1996 awarded 1996 best interactive game at the amee award show in las vegas . 14 eat this 1998 a side scrolling run and gun shooter computer game that involves killing aliens with machine guns . while the original release was 2 d the later version had 30 minutes of 3d animated video . 9 blokken 1998 2001 a cd rom equivalent to the belgian quiz show released in belgium . the game topped the belgian game charts 4 years in a row 15 and was released in four versions . it has sold over 50 000 copies . 7 virtual effects release notes gross beat a time pitch and volume manipulation effect . maximus maximus is a multi band audio limiter and compressor for mastering projects or tracks . it also serves as a noise gate expander ducker and de esser 16 hardcore a multi effects suite of plugins designed to resemble guitarists stompboxes . 17 juice pack a collection of image line proprietary plugins ported to vst format for use in other music hosts . the contents of this pack has changed since its release ; at the time of this writing it includes the delay delay bank equo flangus lovephilter multiband compressor notebook parametric eq parametric eq 2 spectroman stereo enhancer vocoder wave candy and wave shaper plugins . edison 2007 present 18 a wave editor in vst format that also function as a standalone program . pitcher a real time pitch correction filter similar to antares autotune . newtone a piano roll pitch correction effect similar to melodyne . vocodex 2009 present 18 a digital vocoder developed by didier dambrin . 17 fruity stereo shaper 2009 present a stereo processor with a mixer for left right channels and their inverted equivalents and controls for channel delay and phase offse 17 virtual instruments release notes sytrus 2003 present 18 a hybrid semi modular synthesizer combining subtractive additive and fm synthesis . 18 directwave 2005 present 18 a software sampler that provides sample recording waveform editing and dsp effects . 17 slicex 2008 present 18 a beat slicing sampler for processing and re arranging recorded drumloops . harmless 2009 present 19 simplified additive synthesizer with a unique signal chain . 20 harmor 2011 present advanced version of harmless along with waveform views envelopes lfos and modulation mappings from sytrus . 5 toxic biohazard a virtual fm synthesizer similar to sytrus . sawer a vintage modeling synthesizer ; sawer attempts to emulate old soviet union era subtractive synthesizers . morphine an easy to program additive synthesizer . 20 poizone an easy to program subtractive synthesizer . 20 ogun autogun 2009 present 18 ogun is an advanced additive synthesizer specialized in creating metallic timbres while autogun a free version of ogun limited to semi random preset generation . 20 sakura 2009 present 18 a physical modeling synthesizer designed to emulate string instruments . drumaxx 2010 present percussion synthesizer . 21 groove machine 2011 present 22 step sequencer with the ability to automate all parameters per step . 23 wasp wasp xt 2002 present 24 a broad analogue emulation synthesizer intended to emulate analogue synthesizers in general . 25 simsynth live 2002 present 26 three oscillator synthesizer with oberheim inspired svf filter . 27 dx10 2002 present 28 fm synthesizer that features low cpu usage . 29 drumsynth live 2007 present 30 drum synthesizer based on two noise generators run through band pass filters . vsti version of the standalone program by maxim digital audio . 31 see also edit fl studio fl studio mobile deckadance ezgenerator sytrus references edit a b image line company page . www.image line.com . image line . retrieved 22 september 2014 . our team . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . a b c d image line to show fl studio 10 and other projects . musikmesse . 2011 . retrieved 2011 06 19 . sytrus . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . a b image line harmor . image line . retrieved 13 november 2011 . a b c ezgenerator award gallery . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . a b c d e f g h i j image line a company history . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . a b c d e interview with jean marie cannie . imsta . 2008 . retrieved 2011 06 19 . a b eat this . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . a b what is fl studio . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . deckadance history . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . kvr forum archive try the new sytrus . kvr audio . retrieved 2008 11 17 . jazzzy786 december 1 2006 . porntris review . classic pc games . retrieved 2011 06 19 . sec info private media group inc 424b3 . sec info . retrieved 2008 11 06 . blokken . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . maximus . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . a b c d editions . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . a b c d e f g h version history . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . image line releases harmless additive subtractive synthesizer . kvr audio . kvr audio . retrieved 17 october 2013 . a b c d plugins . deckadance . retrieved 2011 06 19 . fl studio features . image line . retrieved 2011 06 19 . image line releases version 1.0.2 of groove machine . kvr audio . kvr audio . retrieved 18 october 2013 . groove machine by image line . kvr audio . kvr audio . retrieved 18 october 2013 . image line wasp 2 vsti released . kvr audio . kvr audio . wasp . image line . image line . image line simsynth live vsti & dxi released . kvr audio . kvr audio . simsynth live by image line . kvr audio . kvr audio . pluginspot image line dx10 released . kvr audio . kvr audio . dx10 by image line . kvr audio . kvr audio . image line releases drumsynth live vsti . kvr audio . kvr audio . drumsynth live by image line . kvr audio . kvr audio . other references edit fl studio features . loopking . retrieved 2011 06 19 . external links edit official website fl studio website deckadance website ezgenerator website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title image line & 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