1998
Voyetra Turtle Beach releases the Montego™ series of award-winning sound cards which sold over 2.5MM units.
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1997
Voyetra Turtle Beach releases the Daytona – one of the industry’s first PCI sound cards.
1996
Voyetra Technologies acquires Turtle Beach Systems. The company again changes names to Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. and also obtains the Dell contract to become the premiere sound card manufacturer for Dell for five years.
1996
Voyetra releases Discovering Music – an interactive CD-ROM which seeming made the history, theory, and techniques of music come to life.
1994
Voyetra Technologies introduces Digital Orchestrator Plus, launching the next generation of its music line.
1993
Turtle Beach Systems and Integrated Circuit Systems jointly develop the new sound chip called the ICS WaveFront™ synthesizer chip.
1992
Turtle Beach Systems releases the MultiSound® 16-bit sound card, which won nearly every major editorial award in its category – PC Magazine Editor’s Choice, Windows® 100, InfoWorld Recommended Product, PC Computing Top 200, Windows User Best of Breed and Best Buy, Electronic Musician’s Editor’s Choice, and others.
1992
Voyetra Technologies develops AudioStation – software that set the standard for future “jukebox” programs and quickly became the music interface for many of the world’s multimedia PCs. More than 20MM units shipped, and from 1990-1995 Voyetra’s software and hardware were commonly used in Dell, Compaq, IBM, Gateway, HP, Sony, Intel, Samsung, Creative Labs, Packard Bell, Analog Devices, Cirrus Logic, Yamaha and many other products.
1986
1986 – Octave-Plateau Electronics changes name to Voyetra Technologies to better align the company branding with the success of its Voyetra Synthesizer. Voyetra Technologies shifts focus from synthesizers to music software and MIDI interfaces.
1985
Turtle Beach Systems is founded by Roy Smith and Robert Hoke. Turtle Beach Systems achieved prominence in the PC multimedia industry with its award-winning sound cards that pioneered PC-based hard-disk recording, multi-channel PC audio playback, and DSP technology. Today, the Turtle Beach name is synonymous with superior audio quality products.