Curiosity over certainty.
Every product we've shipped started as a question, not a roadmap. We trust the experiment more than the spec.
A company shaped by curiosity,
built one tool at a time.
Imaginando started as a teenager's fascination with how a computer could become an instrument. Twelve years and a catalogue of instruments later, it's still the same question driving every release.
12.Years building
30k+Active users
152Countries
[ A letter from the founder ]
I've never been a virtuoso musician.
What I've always been is curious about how things work.
As a teenager, I fell in love with electronic music and started DJing. As a technology enthusiast, I was fascinated by the idea that a computer could generate sound in real time. Tools like ReBirth and Reason didn't just inspire me to make music — they made me want to understand and build music software myself.
While studying computer science I constantly tried to bend what I was learning toward building music software. I experimented with electronics and spent long nights wiring microcontrollers to build my own hardware MIDI controller. Even after I started my professional career as a software developer, I kept DJing — often using Traktor Scratch — and producing in Ableton Live.
When I got my first iPad, I revisited an old idea: building my own MIDI controller, this time entirely in software. That experiment became LIVKONTROL, my first app, which eventually evolved into what is now LK. What started as curiosity quickly grew, through user feedback, into something bigger.
In 2014, Imaginando was born — a long-held dream turned into reality. I wasn't trying to reinvent music software, only to rebuild it in my own way.
Guided by curiosity, engineering discipline, and a desire to make tools that invite exploration — today, we design creative tools that stay out of the way so you can focus on creating. You bring the ideas. We reduce the friction.
After more than a decade of development, experimentation, and challenges, one thing stands out above everything else: you. Imaginando wouldn't exist without the people who used our tools, shared feedback, reported bugs, sent encouragement, and trusted us enough to keep going. Every product we release is shaped by that ongoing conversation.
At heart, I'm still building for the joy of creating. If you're curious, explore one of our tools and see where it takes you. And whatever you're building — music, visuals, or ideas — never stop pursuing your dreams.
[ 02 / The story so far ]
From a soldered MIDI box to a whole catalogue of instruments.
2014day one
Imaginando is born, in Braga.
LIVKONTROL had grown beyond a personal experiment, shaped by user feedback into something bigger. Imaginando was founded — a long-held dream made real. Not to reinvent music software, but to rebuild it our own way: curiosity, engineering discipline, tools that invite exploration.
2014first product
TKFX — a wireless touch FX controller for the iPhone.
Imaginando's debut: a wireless effects controller that turned the iPhone into a tactile control surface for Traktor. The proof of concept that the company was built on — small, focused, and useful.
2015breakthrough
LK launches — the wireless companion for Ableton.
LIVKONTROL evolves into LK and goes on to become the most loved wireless controller for Ableton Live. Tens of thousands of producers ship it as part of their live rig.
2016cross-platform
DRC — polyphonic synth, on every screen.
The company's first synthesizer. Warm analog sound, the same project file from Mac to iPad to Windows. The cross-platform discipline that defines our catalogue starts here.
2020granular
FRMS brings granular synthesis to mobile and desktop.
A granular synth where the workflow is as expressive as the engine. Expansion packs from sound designers around the world keep it growing year after year.
2021visual
VS — Visual Synthesizer enters the canvas.
The same philosophy applied to picture instead of sound. MIDI- and audio-reactive visuals, shader textures, drag-and-drop media. Loved by VJs, livestreamers, and producers who want to turn their sound into something you can see.
2023studio
BAM — a full production studio, on every screen.
Pattern-based, hands-on, complete. The company's most ambitious release — a way for ideas to travel from a coffee-shop iPad to a finished record without ever changing tools.
2024acid
TV3 ignites the acid revival.
Squelchy 303-style bass and lead with bite. A love letter to a sound that won't go away — built to live alongside the rest of the catalogue.
2026now
Twelve years. Same company, same obsession.
A catalogue of instruments, hundreds of thousands of users in 42 countries, and one question still on the wall: how do we make tools that get out of the way? Whatever you're building — music, visuals, ideas — never stop pursuing your dreams.
[ 03 / How we work ]
Three things we keep coming back to.
Engineering as a craft.
We write the code, design the UI, and answer the tickets. The same hands touch the whole thing — that's the only way it stays coherent.
Tools that get out of the way.
Good software doesn't demand attention. It amplifies what you're already doing and disappears the moment you're in flow.
[ The next chapter is yours ]