The 'Blue Ribbon SoundWorks is a digital audio editor

Digital audio editor

A digital audio editor is a computer application for audio editing, i.e. manipulating digital audio. Digital audio editors are the main software component of a digital audio workstation.-For use with music:...

 company in the United States

United States

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. It was acquired by Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 on October 16, 1995, and merged its technology with DirectSound

DirectSound

DirectSound is a software component of the Microsoft DirectX library for the Windows operating system. DirectSound provides a low-latency interface to the sound card driver and can handle the mixing and recording of multiple audio streams....

. The company was also known for Bars&Pipes, a series of music sequencer

Music sequencer

The music sequencer is a device or computer software to record, edit, play back the music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically :...

 software packages written for the Amiga

Amiga

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. It was founded by Melissa Jordan Grey and Todor Fay, who went on to found NewBlue, a video technology company. The "blue" in NewBlue is said to be a reference to the Blue Ribbon SoundWorks.