Karl "Charlie" Steinberg is co-founder of digitalmusician.net. Together with Manfred Rürup he founded Steinberg Media Technologies in 1983 and helped to make digital audio editing popular through the Cubase program. Steinberg is also a founding member of the Fun and Mercy charity. He lives in Hamburg with his wife and two children.
Musician
In 1978, Charlie Steinberg, Freddy Homann and Hölmlölm Vieth of the band Wotan, founded the band Törner Stier Crew together with the musicians Hans-Martin Stier, Walter Stoever and Olaf Schräder. Steinberg becomes keyboarder of the new band. In 1979 the band wins the 1st prize of the Deutschen Phono-Akademie, the forerunner of the Echo Music Prize. 1980 followed an appearance on WDRRockpalast and many live performances. The Törner Stier Crew released a total of three studio albums until 1983. An English solo album of Steinberg recorded in the mid-eighties remains unpublished. Since 2007 Karl Steinberg has played as a keyboarder with the rock quintet Stier, together with two other members of the Törner Stier Crew. After various live appearances the first EP album produced by Siggi Bemm was released in 2009.
Audio Engineer
As an audio engineer and co-producer, Karl Steinberg mixed the albums of various bands of the Neuen Deutschen Welle. At the Wilster studio in 1984, Steinberg recorded Inga Rumpf's Liebe. Leiden. Leben.. During this time, he also worked on projects with Mau Mau, Manfred Rürup, Modern and Udo Dahmen. In 1982 Steinberg worked with Frl. Menke in 1982 in the Studio Maschen and in the Loft Studios Brunwey together with Achim Reichel and Boyzone.
Software Developer
Steinberg Research GmbH's first product, Multitrack Recorder for the Commodore C64, was one of the first MIDI-Sequencer available on the market in 1983. The MIDI protocol was presented to the public in the same year. The MIDI interfaces distributed with the Multitrack Recorder were self-soldered at the beginning. After Pro 16 for the C-64 and Pro 24 for the Atari ST, the music software Cubase appeared in 1989. In 1996, Steinberg brought the Virtual Studio Technology out. Today, VST is the most widely used interface in the audio sector. Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH has been owned by Yamaha Corporation since 2004. With the digital musician recorder from digitalmusician.net Karl Steinberg and Manfred Rürup developed a free audio recorder that allows you to record polyphonic music in real time via an internet connection.
