Industry | Consumer electronics |
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Founded | 1987 in Quebec City, Canada |
Founder | Martin Prevel |
Defunct | 1992 |
Fate | Bankrupt; assets bought by Binnenalster GmbH, in 1994 resold to Softworld Taiwan |
Headquarters | Canada |
Key people | Martin Prevel (CEO) |
Products | Audio, Computer-related products |
Ad Lib, Inc. was a Canadian manufacturer of sound cards and other computer equipment founded by Martin Prevel, a former professor of music and vice-dean of the music department at the Université Laval.[1] The company's best known product, the AdLib Music Synthesizer Card (ALMSC), or simply the AdLib as it was called, was the first add-on sound card for IBM compatibles to achieve widespread acceptance, becoming the first de facto standard for audio reproduction.[2]