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Tim Ryan still a student at the California Institute of Technology in 1978 when he and two partners formed a company to produce a highly innovative, all digital synthesizer which they branded the Con Brio. The Con Brio incorporated 5 then state-of-the-art micro-processors – the same processors that would later be used in the Apple II and Commodore computers. After Con Brio, and as a co-founder of Third Street Software and Sonus, Tim continued to use his coding skills to develop a series of Apple II and Commodore music applications including the highly successful Studio One and Stu

Cato Zane is an accomplished audio engineer and the founder of Lost & Sound Foundry in San Diego, California. Her love for music and physics found a perfect intersection when she discovered audio engineering as a teenager. A multi-instrumentalist who played piano, percussion, and flute during her school years, Cato was always drawn to the creative and technical sides of music. She began her career by recording her friends’ band in high school, which led to a studio assistant role and eventually to gigs as a house sound engineer for musical theater productions.