Novation

Novation Digital Music Systems Ltd. is an English musical equipment manufacturer, founded in 1992 by Ian Jannaway and Mark Thompson as Novation Electronic Music Systems. Today the company specialises in MIDI controllers with and without keyboards, both analogue and virtual analogue performance synthesizers, grid-based performance controllers, and DJ controllers and interfaces. In 2004, Focusrite Audio Engineering Limited acquired the Novation Electronic Music Systems Limited business, a market-leading British producer of keyboards, synthesisers and controllers with products used by musicians globally. The addition of the Novation brand has further expanded the range of products and customers of Focusrite into the electronic dance music (‘‘EDM’’) segment of the market, the fastest growing music making segment according to 2014 International Music Summit Business Report. http://global.novationmusic.com/21-years-of-innovation