About Korneff Audio Inc and Dan and Luke

Korneff Audio is a boutique audio plug-in developer based in New York. Our products combine top-notch audio quality and cutting-edge modeling, wrapped in interfaces designed to inspire you to create and play.

We were founded in 2019 by producer/engineer Dan Korneff along with his old friend and mentor, Luke DeLalio. Dan and Luke’s friendship, which goes back three decades, was formed in recording studios, and it was always about helping and pushing each other while having as much fun as possible. That’s the basis of Korneff Audio, and what we aspire to bring to the people who use our software. We’re about you mastering the craft of audio engineering.

Korneff Audio punches above its weight — not only in the quality of our software, but in our user base and our strategic partnerships with companies like Shure, Sound Techniques, and more you’ll be hearing about in 2027.

Modeled, not Lego

Our plug-ins are built on component-level, behavioral and physical modeling of real circuits, developed from schematics and then compared to the real hardware — and Dan does all of that work himself.

Made in working studios

Our plug-ins are designed to solve problems we’ve run into while making records. They’re tested by working engineers, and we don’t release them until we’re all happy.

Reverse mullet

Korneff plug-ins are designed so you can move fast — but click the nameplate and there are options to experiment and perfect. Reverse mullet: party up front, business out back.

Dan Korneff

An engineer’s engineer.

Dan is a producer, mixer and engineer with a discography that runs through some of the biggest names in new rock — Pierce the Veil, Paramore, Papa Roach, Breaking Benjamin, Sleeping With Sirens, My Chemical Romance. Creative and musical, but with a deep technical understanding of the electronics inside the equipment.

Dan is an inveterate tinkerer, never content to not make things work better. He started off repairing and modifying his own gear, moved on to rebuilding consoles and eventually designing and constructing his own custom outboard equipment.

Digital plug-in development was the logical next step. Dan designs and develops all of our plug-ins himself, throwing himself into it like he does everything: completely.

Luke DeLalio

Ever fleeing boredom and the same old thing.

Luke started in music as a guitarist, then moved into engineering and production, working on records across genres from the late 80s into the mid 90s — when his life was upended by tinnitus.

He pivoted into theatre: directing plays and musicals regionally and Off-Broadway, teaching acting, and somehow becoming a sought-after photographer. Then design and fine art. Now he spends his time developing all things Korneff, writing on all things cultural, consulting on marketing and web projects, and coaching creative people who are sick of it all and want to change things up.

Feel free to write Luke at Korneff Audio if you have tinnitus and it’s destroying your life. Been there, done that — you can get past it, too.

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Modeled, not Lego

Made in working studios

Reverse mullet

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