moForte

moForte is the maker of award winning, unique music creation products, used by thousands of musicians world wide, with millions of video views.

Partnered with Wizdom Music, moForte's flagship product, GeoShred, an award winning, fluidly expressive musical instrument that runs on multi-touch devices.

It has a performance surface with "almost magic" pitch rounding algorithms which is coupled with a model of the physics of strings, support for AUv3, MIDI In/Out, MPE and 3D Touch. It's a fusion of Jordan Rudess' performance concepts and a powerful, modeled guitar/effects based on the Physical Modeling research of Dr. Julius O. Smith III of Stanford/CCRMA. And, GeoShred's expressive control can be used with other synthesizers.

Tens of thousands of artists in 48 countries perform GeoShred with 30% of those users in India.

GeoShred is the Gold Medal Winner of the 2019 Denny Award, winner of a 2019 Guthman New Musical Instrument Award, and winner of the 2017 Electronic Musician Editor's Choice Award as "one of the most innovative, groundbreaking products to emerge in the past twelve months".

The moForte team includes industry insiders, mobile music innovator Jordan Rudess, keyboardist of the band Dream Theater, and world-renowned audio signal-processing expert, Dr. Julius O. Smith III of Stanford University and CCRMA. The moForte founders also co-founded Staccato Systems, a spin out from Stanford/CCRMA that was successfully sold to Analog Devices in 2001.

In the spirit of Silicon Valley start-up companies, moForte is operating out of a garage in Mountain View, California with staff of Gregory Pat Scandalis (CTO/CEO), Nick Porcaro (Chief Scientist), Dr. Julius Smith of Stanford/CCRMA (part time founding consultant) and Jordan Rudess (publisher).