{{Short description|German audio equipment manufacturer}} {{Infobox company | logo = | industry = Professional Audio Equipment | founded = 1970 | founder = Peter Lawo | hq_location = Rastatt, Germany | key_people = <ul> <li>Philipp Lawo, CEO</li> <li>Claus Gärtner, CFO</li> <li>Jamie Dunn, Deputy CEO</li> <li>Phil Myers, CTO</li> <li>Andreas Hilmer, CMO</li> <li>Ulrich Schnabl, COO</li> <li>Christian Lukic, CSCO</li> </ul> | num_employees = > 400<ref name="Lawo About Us">{{cite web |url=https://lawo.com/company/about-us/ |access-date=November 25, 2022 |title=About Lawo - 50 years of Engineering the future |website=Lawo}}</ref> | website = https://lawo.com }}
'''Lawo''' is an international company based in Rastatt, Germany, specializing in the manufacture of digital mixing consoles and other professional audio equipment. It was founded in 1970 by Peter Lawo,<ref name="Lawo About Us"/> and is currently run by his son Philipp. The company is notable for supplying the audio mixing equipment for the 2012 London Olympics and Nine Network, and for sports events in Asia, North America and Australia.<ref name="psn"/>
The first developments of Peter Lawo were driven by the needs of composers of electronic music like Karlheinz Stockhausen. To Stockhausen's specifications Peter Lawo built an apparatus called "module 69 B" which was used to perform Stockhausen's composition ''Mantra''. The success of this production led to the founding of the Experimentalstudio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the Südwestfunk in 1971.<ref name="iscm.org">[http://www.iscm.org/files/wnmf2006.pdf World New Music Magazine—Contemporary Music in Germany] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201071209/http://www.iscm.org/files/wnmf2006.pdf |date=2006-12-01 }}, International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), 1996, {{ISBN|978-3-89727-336-8}}, page 43/44</ref><ref>[http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/ema/rue/eku/en1579164.htm Electronic Music from Germany—Review], Goethe Institute.</ref> Together with the first director of this studio, Hans Peter Haller, Peter Lawo developed the Halaphon. (The name resulted from the names of the developers: HA(ller)-LA(wo)-PHON).<ref name="iscm.org"/> This machine became famous when being used in all the later works of composer Luigi Nono.
thumb|The Lawo PTR at Studio für Elektronische Musik, Cologne Later, Peter Lawo developed mixing consoles for Stockhausen, whose composition ''Oktophonie'' was produced in the Studio for Electronic Music of the German Public Broadcaster WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk). For the production of this composition, the automatic recall of very fast fader movements was used<ref>[http://iem.kug.ac.at/fileadmin/media/iem/projects/2011/bem13.pdf "The audio mixer as creative tool in musical composition and performance"], University Graz, 2011, page 48.</ref>—which was made possible by Lawo's hybrid mixing console PTR ("Programmierbare Ton Regie" = programmable audio control).<ref>Durham University [http://dro.dur.ac.uk/9907/1/9907.pdf?DDD23+dmu0pdm+dul4eg "The influence of technology on the compositionof Stockhausen’s Octophonie"], originally published by Cambridge University Press in ”Organised sound”, 1996, {{ISSN|1355-7718}}, Page 178</ref>
==History== 1970 – founded by Peter Lawo as engineer's office for electronic equipment *1970s – Development of electronic sound processors (Vocoder, Halaphon and alike) and analog mixing consoles *1980s – Development of a programmable audio mixing console called PTR with digital control and analog signal processing *1990s – Development of the digital mc series mixing consoles *2007 – Introduction of DAW plugins for Windows.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://broadcastengineering.com/audio/lawo-merges-daw-plug-ins-and-mixing-consoles|title=Lawo merges DAW plug-ins and mixing consoles|publisher=Broadcast Engineering|date=12 May 2007|accessdate=7 January 2013}}</ref> *2008 – Lawo acquire majority shares in French digital audio company Innovason.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/lawo-acquires-majority-share-in-innovason|title=Lawo Acquires Majority Share in Innovason|publisher=Radioworld|date=1 May 2008|accessdate=3 October 2018}}</ref> *2010 – Introduction of the Sapphire mixing console at the IBC Exhibition in Amsterdam.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.live-production.tv/news/products/lawo-mixing-consoles-ibc-2010.html|title=Lawo Mixing Consoles at IBC 2010|date=20 September 2010|accessdate=7 January 2013}}</ref> *2012 – 50 Lawo consoles were used for sound mixing in the 2012 London Olympics.<ref name="psn">{{cite web|title=Over 50 Lawo consoles mixing London 2012 Olympics|url=http://www.psneurope.com/broadcastnews-content/full/over-50-lawo-consoles-mixing-london-2012-olympics#.UOrXom-uCk4|publisher=PSN Europe|date=7 August 2012|accessdate=7 January 2013}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{official website|url=https://www.lawo.com/}}
Category:Manufacturers of professional audio equipment Category:Music equipment manufacturers Category:Audio equipment manufacturers of Germany Category:Companies based in Baden-Württemberg Category:German brands Category:Audio mixing console manufacturers Category:Video equipment manufacturers