PreSonus Audio Electronics, Inc. (often known and styled as PreSonus) is an American manufacturer of professional audio equipment and software, used to create, record, mix, and master music and other audio. This includes their line of digital audio workstation (DAW) software, Studio One (now known as Studio Pro). Since November 2021, the company is a subsidiary of Fender.
History
PreSonus was founded in 1995, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by Louisiana State University electrical engineering graduates Jim Odom (also a member of the rock band LeRoux) and Brian Smith, to solve technical issues with engineering music CDs. It was initially based out of Odom's garage.[1][2]
The company's first product was the DCP-8, a multi-channel digital processor (including compression, gating and mix automation) that could control analog audio using