Crypton Future Media

Crypton Future Media, Inc.
クリプトン・フューチャー・メディア株式会社

「音」で発想するチーム。 (A team which expresses through "sound".)
Type	Kabushiki gaisha (unlisted)
Industry	Software, Internet
Genre	Music
Founded	July 1995
Headquarters	11F Nihon Seimei Sapporo Bldg., 1-1 Nishi4 Kita3, Chūō-ku, Sapporo 060-0003 Japan
Area served	Japan
Key people	Hiroyuki Itō (伊藤 博之), President
Products	Vocaloid Sound generator software Sampling CDs and DVDs Sound effect libraries Background music libraries
Services	Online shopping Online community Mobile content
Number of employees	30
Divisions	Media Phage FX and BGM libraries Mobile Contents Service Provider
Website	Official website (Japanese)
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Vocaloid

Crypton Future Media, Inc. (クリプトン・フューチャー・メディア株式会社, Kuriputon Fyūchā Media Kabushikigaisha^?), or Crypton, is a Japanese media company based in Sapporo, Japan. It develops, imports, and sells products for music, such as sound generator software, sampling CDs and DVDs, and sound effect and background music libraries. The company also provides services of online shopping, online community, and mobile content.

Crypton started business importing audio products in 1995, and has been involved in the development, import, and sales of sampling CDs and DVDs, sound effect and background music libraries, and musical synthesizer applications. Its main business partners in Japan include musical instrument shops, computer stores, and software distributors.

The company has licensed software to the following organizations:

Crypton also operates a number of Japanese mobile websites, mainly for i-mode of NTT docomo, EZweb of au by KDDI, and Yahoo! Keitai of SoftBank Mobile, to distribute ringtones, sound effects, and voice ringtones (chaku-voice), including:

Crypton imports products from more than 50 international suppliers based in Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.