Sonic Solutions

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Sonic Solutions NASDAQ: SNIC is a Novato, CA (California, USA) based digital media company. It was created in 1986 by former Lucasfilm employees who developed the AudioDroid digital audio editing system as part of the Droidworks project. (Another notable spinoff of the project is Pixar.) Sonic developed and marketed The Sonic System, the first professional non-linear digital audio workstation for music editing, restoration and CD preparation.

Sonic's technology for professional audio noise reduction, NoNOISE, received an Emmy Award for outstanding technical achievement in 1996, the same year the company introduced the first commercial DVD production system in partnership with Daikin. Sonic became the leading developer of DVD authoring systems for professional use (Sonic Scenarist and Sonic DVD Producer) as well as retail and PC OEM DVD software applications for home use (DVDit, MyDVD, RecordNow).

With the acquisition of the Desktop and Mobile Division (DMD) of VERITAS Software Corporation in 2002 and the acquisition of Roxio in 2004, Sonic took the lead in consumer CD creation software as well, moving its consumer products under the Roxio brand to join products such as Easy Media Creator and Toast.

Also in 2002, Sonic spun off their entire audio division as Sonic Studio, LLC, to concentrate solely on the DVD marketplace.