Awards and Achievements

In only 13 years, Sound Magic Co.,Ltd has already gone on to receive recognition for our developments and unique products. No two awards are the same, and we’re humbled to have beat out tough competitors in the digital audio field to be the top choice among publishers. Read below to learn about some of our most proudest achievements and see why we set the bar so high here at Sound Magic Co.,Ltd 

Awards and Nominations

Although awards aren’t everything and it’s the user experience that matters the most, we’re proud to have lead in many categories over the years and broke ground as a Chinese developer.

  • TEC Awards (Technical Excellence Creativity Award) are the ‘Oscars’ for the pro audio and sound recording industry. In 2013, Imperial Grand was nominated for the 29th TEC Awards in the Musical Instrument Technology/Software category. Sound Magic Co.,Ltd was the first Chinese nominee ever in TEC Awards’ 35-year history. Link is here
  • In 2015, DSD Tool was nominated for the 31st TEC Awards in Signal Processing Software (Dynamics/EQ/Utilities) Category. Link is here
  • In 2015, Serenade DSD/DXD/Hi-Res Workstation was nominated for the 31st TEC Awards in the Workstation Technology Category. Sound Magic Co.,Ltd became the first company to be nominated in all three major software categories in TEC Awards’ 35-year history. Link is here
  • In 2015, Google Developers 2015 Music China Internet Audio Creativity Awards
  • In 2017, Piano One was ranked #1 on KVR Audio, among a field of over 14,000 other software products.
  • In 2019, Neo Piano was nominated for the 35th TEC Awards in Musical Instrument Technology/Software category. Link is here
  • In 2020, Neo Erhu was nominated for the 36th TEC Awards in Musical Instrument Technology/Software category. Neo EQ was nominated for the 36th TEC Awards in Sginal Processing Software (Dynamics / EQ / Utilities) category. Neo Reverb was nominated for the 36th TEC Awards in Sginal Processing Software (Effects) category. Link is here
  • In 2022, China Ensemble was nominated for the 38th TEC Awards in Musical Instrument Technology/Software category. Link is here

Technical Milestones:

In additional to formal recognition, Sound Magic Co.,Ltd is proud to have introduced new innovative features, products, and technologies to the world.

  • Neo EQ, first released in January 2012, was the first auto pitch tracking EQ in the pro audio industry.
  • Neo Reverb, released in March 2013, was the first Algorithm IR Reverb in the pro audio industry.
  • The latest Neo Piano Engine is the industry’s first large-scale application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the software developing phase. AI can be over 1 million times more efficient in this period than a single experienced human engineer and a top sample library may now contain around 1 million samples because of AI’s efficiency.

We can’t wait to see what the future holds and are hard at work creating our next award-winning product. Visit our store to try one of our award-winning products for yourself!