It all started when two engineering students, Frédéric Brun and Gilles Pommereuil, met at the INPG, Grenoble Institute of Technology, in France. Both were part of the University Symphony Orchestra, as violinist and conductor respectively. Frédéric and Gilles shared a vision; that technology could open the world of music creation to everyone. They saw music and sound as a universe full of creative possibilities, waiting to be explored. So they set off in pursuit of inspiration, founding Arturia in Grenoble in 1999.
“We wanted to use technology as an opportunity to create simple and accessible products for music production.”
While Arturia debuted as a software company, the temptation to venture into hardware grew around 2004/2005. "Musicians were still hesitant to take computers on stage at that time, and many were coming to us, requesting hardware instruments that would embed our algorithms known as TAE®", says Gilles.
This is how our first ambitious hardware synthesizer, Origin, was born - allowing users to combine elements of our classic synth emulations in their own configuration.
Rock Distribution is representing ARTURIA brand in Latvia and Estonia.
