Panda Audio is a small, independent R&D company based in Budaörs, Hungary, founded in 1998 by András Szalay, a physicist and longtime audio engineer who previously designed gear for Akai Professional, Wersi, Shadow, and Blue Chip Music. The company specializes in digital signal processing and embedded systems for professional audio, and over the years has done contract development for brands including Fishman Transducers, Akai, and Tascam. Szalay is joined by Zsolt Rammer, who works on guitar effects algorithms, and George Peng, who handles PCB and mechanical design.

The brand is best known for the Future Impact, a bass guitar synthesizer pedal that grew out of Talkbass forum requests for a successor to the discontinued Akai Deep Impact (which Szalay had originally designed for Akai). Rather than a reissue, the Future Impact was conceived as an entirely new instrument with deeper synthesis capabilities, including high-oversampled analog modeling, programmable patches, and MIDI control. Subsequent revisions — the Future Impact V3 and V4, plus the more compact Future Impact V4 VIP — added features like CV/Gate output, MIDI Out for driving external synths, a six-operator DX7-compatible FM engine, and improved pitch tracking. The company also makes the midiBeam line of wireless and wired MIDI control interfaces.

The Future Impact has found a following among bass players including Chris Wolstenholme of Muse, Doug Wimbish, Bootsy Collins, and Mohini Dey, building on the cult reputation of its Deep Impact predecessor used by players like Mike Gordon and Paul Taylor.

Panda Audio has 2 products cataloged on Equipboard, including Guitar Synth Pedals. Their gear is featured by 1 artist, with the strongest followings in Rock and Funk / Soul. Notable users include Bootsy Collins.