WaveDNA was founded in Toronto in 2010 by CEO Douglas Mummenhoff and Vice President/Lead Inventor David Beckford. Their vision was to create virtual instruments that dramatically streamline the composition process for songwriters, producers, and composers.

Their story began in the late ‘80’s when Dave noticed the gap between the then recently created standard of MIDI and traditional musical notation. Neither was capable of capturing the performances modern technology had afforded musicians, DJ’s, and producers. David is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, digital audio editor, programmer, and former Technical Director at U of T’s music cognition lab. Dave offeres a unique skill set to bear on the effort to bridge the notation gap.

By 2009, Dave had developed a working prototype of what would drive Liquid Rhythm. This engine allowed him to analyze musical compositions. It can isolate and catalogue unique rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic characteristics, and recall those elements without sheet music, multi-track recorders, or live musicians. At that time, both he and Doug were working on a project related to the Ryerson’s Emoti-Chair Project. This effort was spearheaded by the university's CLT and SMART labs. They were developing a technology that would enable the hearing impaired to experience music using their other senses.

Doug was an early adopter of digital technology with extensive experience as a website developer and IT manager. He immediately recognized the potential of Dave’s analysis engine and shortly thereafter the two founded WaveDNA. Their intent was to apply Dave’s invention to innovative software solutions that would enable musicians to achieve their vision quickly and easily. They continue to design virtual instruments that inspire the creative process.