Beatnik

Beatnik, Inc. (initially Headspace, Inc) was a company focusing on MIDI wavetable synthesis. The company was founded by Thomas Dolby in 1996.

Their first product was MiniBAE, which they bought the rights to from Steve Hales' Igor Software Labs. It was initially designed for small web audio, but after the dot-com crash, they began focusing on mobile phones. They later released another audio engine called the MobileBAE, which used DLS files instead of Beatnik's proprietary soundbank format.

Beatnik ended business in December 2009. During that time, they released the MiniBAE codebase to the open source community.