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Steinberg ASIO Usage Guidelines
(Version ”2.3.2 – 01.11.2018”)
1. Required use of ASIO compatible Logo
Whenever “ASIO” is used or the SDK has been used to create a product it is required to add “ASIO compatible
Logo” as supplied by Steinberg on every of the following
a. on package or tangible form including the Software (, e.g. USB Stick, USB Dongle, Microphone) or
hardware
b.
if ASIO is used or activated by default or automatically: in every About Box and/or Startup-
/Splashscreen (About Box and/or Startup-/Splashscreen itself
necessary
only if no package and
no tangible form is used)
if ASIO activated only manually: in every dialog used to enable or configure ASIO technology
c. on every document, package, website, advertisement, offer or publication that mentions “ASIO”
(this includes every use in a url or the like)
d. on every advertising (e.g. a self owned website is an advertising as well!) as is commercially
reasonable e.g. where space is usually sufficiently available, in product brochures, on websites
offering a product, e.g. for download or sale and always if any other third party trademark is
displayed or mentioned while it is in most cases not commercially reasonable and therefore not
necessary in small advertisements like internet
banners or on promotional items
e. on any product website regarding (among others) at least one ASIO Compliant Hardware Product
and/or ASIO Driver Compliant at least one time for every product website, but it might be a subpage
linked to the product page while such sub page might be a specification page
f. on website additionally
on any
legal or imprint website
g.
in all documentation and specification, regardless of the media used, such as e.g. manuals or
data sheets
Due to the above, e.g. for a downloadable Software, e.g. a driver, it is possible to reduce the use of ASIO to
one time on a specification of the Software and one time on the legal page.
In some of the above cases it is allowed to use instead of the ASIO compatible Logo “ASIO” (in üplain letters)
and the copyright notice (please refer to § 3 of the agreement for details).
2. Use of ASIO not within the ASIO compatible Logo
It is allowed for all parties that have entered into the current Steinberg ASIO SDK Licensing Agreement to use
“ASIO” in regular letters to refer to compatibility as long as complying with the Agreement. It is not allowed
to use the ASIO Logo that e.g. Steinberg itself uses (the one with the red and green triangles). The following
shall provide more guidance related to common forms of usage:
3. Use when claiming compatibility or using “ASIO”
It is allowed to use claims such as “compatible with 64 bit ASIO” if the ASIO compatible Logo is placed in
context of such claim, e.g. not too far away on the same page, and the product uses or has been created
using the SDK and is, in fact, compatible (compare 1.c above).
