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Early digital audio workstation
The SoundDroid is an early digital audio workstation designed and developed between 1980 and 1987 by a team of engineers led by James A. Moorer at Lucasfilm. It was a hard-disk–based, nonlinear audio editor developed on the Audio Signal Processor (ASP), a large-scale digital signal processor for real-time, multichannel equalization and audio mixing. The ASP was connected to a Sun-1 workstation, and with a physical console, could replace multi-slider mixers and provide new tools for audio spotting, editing, and mixing. Wikipedia →
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