"Turtle Beach is a designs, manufactures and markets high quality, competitively-priced audio peripherals for video game consoles and personal computers. Turtle Beach was founded in 1985 as """"Turtle Beach Softworks"""" by co-founders Roy Smith and Robert Hoke. The company's first product was a graphical editing system that supported the breakthrough Ensoniq Mirage sampling keyboard. The Mirage was the first low cost sampling device that allowed musicians to play realistic choirs, pianos, horns, and other instruments in their performances. The software, called """"Vision"""", connected the Mirage to a PC and used the PC's screen and graphics to make the programming and editing of sounds much easier. Ensoniq decided to resell Vision through their dealer network and Turtle Beach Softworks became a profitable company. Over the following years, the company developed a few other programs that supported Ensoniq equipment but realized that they needed to develop more generalized products. Turtle Beach designs and markets premium audio peripherals for video game, personal computer, and mobile platforms, including its acclaimed line of Ear Force gaming headphones and headsets crafted for Xbox 360 and PS3 game consoles and PC games."