Audient was founded in 1997 by David Dearden and Gareth Davies, previously of Soundcraft. They had been founding partners of DDA – a company known for designing mixing console in the 1980s and 1990s. The company was later purchased by Simon Blackwood (formerly of Focusrite/Novation) in the winter of 2013.Audient's flagship designs include the ASP8024, a large format inline mixing console with up to 80 inputs on the 36 channel version. Recently, the company has entered the audio interface market with the addition of the iD22, followed by the iD14 and iD4.