issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . february 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs to be updated . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . may 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message turtle beach corporation type public traded as nasdaq hear industry audio founded 2008 in elmsford new york founders robert hoke roy smith headquarters san diego california united states key people ron doornink chairman juergen stark ceo products headsets soundcards website www.turtlebeach.com turtle beach corporation is an american sound card and headset manufacturer . in 1995 the company merged with voyetra a company that made custom software for sound cards to form voyetra turtle beach then headquartered in valhalla new york . in 2014 voyetra turtle beach merged with parametric sound retaining the parametic sound name until the name was changed to turtle beach corporation . contents 1 history 2 headsets 2.1 current line up 3 brands 3.1 sound cards 3.1.1 isa bus 3.1.2 wavetable daughter board 3.1.3 pcmci bus 3.1.4 pci bus 3.1.5 usb bus 3.2 headsets 3.3 software 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit turtle beach 1 was founded in 1985 2 as turtle beach softworks by co founders roy smith and robert hoke . the company s first product was a graphical editing system that supported the breakthrough ensoniq mirage sampling keyboard . the mirage was the first low cost sampling device that allowed musicians to play realistic choirs pianos horns and other instruments in their performances . the software called vision connected the mirage to a pc and used the pc s screen and graphics to make the programming and editing of sounds much easier . ensoniq decided to resell vision through their dealer network and turtle beach softworks became a profitable company . over the following years the company developed a few other programs that supported ensoniq equipment but realized that they needed to develop more generalized products . they retooled their product into samplevision which initially supported the akai s900 but was designed with an extensible framework allowing other samplers to be supported . the samplevision series was among the first to offer a macintosh like user experience on the pc which at that time did not have microsoft windows to provide its gui . in 1988 turtle beach began to work on developing its first hardware product a hard disk based audio editing system . among the first of its kind the product was named the 56k digital recording system and was released in 1990 . it was based on a motorola 56000 dsp chip and offered non linear playlist editing of stereo audio files . the 56k system was popular among radio stations and mastering studios because it replayed exactly the same digital stream that it recorded . in 1990 turtle beach began developing its first pc sound card . this card used high quality a d and d a a high quality synthesizer from emu and an onboard dsp chip . this product was called multisound . the multisound product competed with more established products of the day from advanced gravis now defunct ad lib inc. now defunct creative labs and media vision now defunct . ccrma s music kit and dsp tools running on motorola 56001 dsp initially developed for nextcube system was later ported on nextstep with turtle beach fiji pinnacle dsp cards . 3 turtle beach was then acquired by integrated circuit systems ics a maker of clock chips for the pc market . ics wanted to broaden its market to include the new multimedia chips and peripherals deciding to buy existing lines rather than build anew . with the addition of ics s resources turtle beach offered a full line of pc peripherals releasing 8 new products within the 18 months following the sale . the multisound monterey the tahiti maui audio advantage sound cards rounded out its hardware product line with products at every price point . on the software side the company released wave for windows a sound editing program that was ahead of its time but also ahead of the hardware curve ; quad the first multitrack recording application for the pc ; and several other software titles . as often occurs with corporate acquisitions the original founders were soon no longer with the company . martin goldberg was brought in to run the company and after moving its operations to san jose ics sold turtle beach to voyetra technologies inc. in 1996 . voyetra s midi orchestrator plus software bundled with sound blaster cards from creative voyetra founded by synthesizer pioneer carmine bonanno in 1975 had developed drivers and software for nearly every sound card manufacturer in the world during the early 1990s . the purchase of turtle beach allowed voyetra to leverage its close ties with pc manufacturers by providing sound cards bundled with voyetra software and drivers . after the purchase the company changed its name to voyetra turtle beach inc. and sold millions of sound cards to dell computer under the turtle beach brand . in 2001 voyetra turtle beach developed audiotron one of the first standalone internet audio receivers . the device enjoyed tremendous success in the first year of its release but was soon faced with tremendous competition from similar products . turtle beach opted out of the network audio market in 2004 . recently turtle beach has diversified its product line to include usb audio devices video capture products and a wide variety of headphones including the ear force line of multi channel pc and gaming headphones . headsets edit turtle beach has an extensive line of headsets their current line has headsets for current and previous generation consoles such as the xbox one playstation 4 xbox 360 playstation 3 . they also sell headsets compatible with pc mac and mobile platforms and nintendo consoles . current line up edit ear force xo seven ear force xo four ear force xo one ear force xp seven ear force xp510 ear force xp500 ear force xp400 ear force x42 ear force dx12 ear force x12 ear force dxl1 ear force xl1 ear force xla ear force px3 ear force px4 ear force px51 ear force px5 ear force px22 ear force dpx21 ear force px21 ear force dp11 ear force p11 ear force p12 ear force elite 800 ear force elite 800x elite pro ear force px24 call of duty ghosts ear force phantom call of duty ghosts ear force spectre call of duty ghosts ear force shadow call of duty black ops 2 ear force tango call of duty black ops 2 ear force sierra call of duty black ops 2 ear force x ray call of duty black ops 2 ear force kilo call of duty modern warfare 3 ear force delta call of duty modern warfare 3 ear force bravo call of duty modern warfare 3 ear force charlie call of duty modern warfare 3 ear force foxtrot marvel thor the dark world ear force seven star wars battlefront ear force stormtrooper star wars battlefront ear force x wing pilot brands edit a catalina brand card sound cards edit isa bus edit multisound family hurricane architecture multisound classic was a 430 usd full length isa sound card produced from 1992 to 1994 . it contained an emu proteus 1 xr professional midi rack engine with 2 mb or 4 mb rom sample pack and a motorola 56001 68000 dsp chip pair for wave recording and playback . the card supported windows 9x officially and can be used on windows nt 4.0 and windows 2000 using peter hall s drivers . the sound quality and feature set offered by multisound classic was truly revolutionary at the time but creative labs acquired emu in 1994 and the supply of xr chips stopped . the card had to be redesigned accordingly creating the tahiti . a detailed analysis of the multisound s hardware is here multisound tahiti multisound classic derivative without the on card synthesis . motorola 56001 chipset . multisound monterey multisound monterey was the first cost reduced version of the multisound . in essence the synthesizer the emu proteus was replaced by the less expensive rio card that was based on the ics wavefront chipset . the dsp and a d was identical to the multisound as the monterey was a simple combination of the rio mounted onto the tahiti . multisound family 2nd generation architecture multisound fiji last real professional isa cards from multisound line . motorola 56002 chipset audiophile quality 20 bit dac adc 97 db signal to noise ratio dsp based hurricane architecture optional digital s pdif i o with daughterboard mpu 401 compatible waveblaster compatible header enhanced full duplex windows 95 plug n play compatible . compatible with windows 95 98 98se and me in plug n play mode ; nt4 2000 and xp using the last nt4 non plug n play driver and settings . multisound pinnacle same as multisound fiji but with additional specifications full length isa card hardware sample based synthesis kurzweil homac synth engine 4 mb patch set 2 mb sample rom using proprietary kurzweil compression user expandable sample set supports up to 48 mb of sample ram on board using two 32 bits simm sockets for fpm ram eide cd rom interface . other malibu surround 64 4mb 64 voice isa bus sample based soundcard introduced 1997 . uses kurzweil hardware synthesis . 64 voices including 32 hardware voices and 32 software voices 4mb instrument samples compressed to 2mb rom . crystal cs4237b pnp chipset . maui maui was an inexpensive sample based synthesizer add on card . it used the ics wavefront synthesizer chip as did the monterey and the rio and offered optional ram slots that would allow users to add up to 8 megabytes of their own . wav format samples up to 16 bit 44.1 khz . this process called samplestore pre dated the creative microsoft soundfonts concept by two years . this card was intended for sound blaster owners who wanted to improve their midi playback by adding sample based synthesis . because of samplestore and wavepatch a professional grade sound programmer for all wavefront equipped cards many music enthusiasts used the maui as a cheap yet high quality studio sampler . monte carlo monte carlo was the first turtle beach sound card that was not designed in house . it was based on a crystal semiconductor reference design for a sound blaster compatible card . tropez classic non pnp isa card from same era as original soundblaster awe32 and gravis ultrasound max . ics wavefront sample based chipset opti 929 2mb rom 3 simm slots for max 12mb sample ram . tropez plus pnp version of tropez classic . cs4232 ics wavefront 4mb rom 3 simm slots for ram . tropez 32 tbs 2000 cost reduced versions of tropez without simm slots . only 1mb or 2mb sample rom . tbs 929 tbs 930 tbs 931 oem low cost cards for cd rom upgrade kits all uses opti chipset . tbs 931 uses opti 82c931 older are similar as monte carlo line . wavetable daughter board edit rio the rio was a wavetable daughtercard midi synthesizer sample based synthesizer that was compatible with the sound blaster daughtercard pinout . this product was intended for sound blaster owners who wanted to improve their midi playback by adding sample based synthesis . the rio offered one ram slot that would allow users to add their own sounds and was compatible with the wavepatch sound programmer . unlike the maui however the rio used a sipp slot