The SoundDroid is an early digital audio workstation designed by a team of engineers led by James A. Moorer at Lucasfilm between 1980 and 1987.
The ASP was connected to a then-new SUN/1 workstation, and with a physical console, could replace multi-slider mixers and provide new tools for audio spotting, editing, and mixing.
For Lucasfilm, the ASP was utilized to add Doppler shift to recordings-- to arrows being shot at Indiana Jones in "Temple of Doom."
The executive team at The Droid Works left Lucasfilm in 1986 to start Sonic Solutions, and along with James Moorer developed the NoNoise product to denoise the corpus of analog audio recordings that were about to be transferred to the new CD digital format.
Complete with a trackball, touch-sensitive displays, moving faders, and a jog-shuttle wheel, the SoundDroid included programs for sound synthesis, digital reverberation, recording, editing and mixing.