DiGiCo
Jaap Pronk is an accomplished professional in the audio and live sound industry, currently serving as the International Sales Manager and Sales Product Specialist at DiGiCo since April 2016. With a wealth of experience, Jaap has established a strong presence in both the live sound and production markets, working with renowned artists such as Bruno Mars, U2, and Beyoncé. Jaap also owns Daiquiri Music, a production company active since 1995, and has a history of managing sound for various events and tours. Prior roles include Product Manager at Ampco Flashlight Sales, Account and Product Manager at TM Audio Holland BV, and various engineering and management positions in the live and studio sound sectors. Jaap holds a sound degree from the RENA Institute and has completed additional courses in digital audio and sales.
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DiGiCo
DiGiCo (UK) Limited brings together the design and development skills and digital engineering expertise that have helped create some of the world's most popular, successful and ground-breaking digital audio solutions. The company was formed in 2002 with the purchase of Soundtracs, which was formed in the early 1980s by a group of recording engineers in search of a better studio console than those available at the time. The team's success led to two decades of audio innovation and, in 1992, its first development of a digital audio mixing console. In 1996 this program led to the launch of the acclaimed Virtua console, followed a year later by the DPC, in 1998 the DS3 and in 2000 the D4. Since 2000 the company's product range has been based entirely on digital audio. Along the way a host of new technologies has been introduced, including the first use by an audio manufacturer of the revolutionary Sharc DSP from Analog Devices, a faster, more efficient processor than any then on the market, the first (and still the most comprehensive) use of multiple TFT LCD touchscreens, a pioneer in the use of a 96kHz sample rate, and the first to run multiple sample rates simultaneously. This is just some of the experience that went into creating DiGiCo's first product, the D5 Live digital mixing system, which brought with it a revolutionary approach to both the live sound console and the way it interfaces with both ends of the audio chain. DiGiCo has always been ahead of its time, basing the D5 around a powerful DSP engine using proven Soundtracs hardware and software, but with features dedicated to live sound mixing, it created the world's first truly open-ended console system. Now, it has taken a quantum leap forward. Using a single Super FPGA [Field Programmable Gate Array], the new SD Series and S21 combines this single chip technology with the new Tiger SHARC to produce our trademarked Stealth digital processing.