Emagic

Emagic was a music software and hardware company based in Rellingen, Germany and a satellite office in Grass Valley, CA. On July 1, 2002 Emagic was bought by Apple Computer. Emagic's Windows-based product offerings were discontinued on September 30, 2002. The company was best known for its music sequencer, Logic. Logic stemmed from the then famous Creator, then Notator, made by C-Lab (the company's forerunner) for the Atari ST platform. In 1992, Notator Logic was launched for Atari and Macintosh, followed by a version for Windows. The "Notator" was dropped from the name and the product was redesigned from the ground up, and the product became known under the name "Emagic Logic". When Apple bought Emagic, Logic had "Emagic" dropped from the title, and is now called Logic Pro. In 1995, Emagic (then C-Lab) bought the rights to the hardware design of the Atari Falcon computer and began producing their own versions due to continued demand for an inexpensive Digital Audio Workstation. It was discontinued when commodity PC and Macintosh hardware became more cost-effective than the proprietary Atari based systems. The other major software product that Emagic offered was SoundDiver, an editor/librarian for hardware synthesizers. It communicated via MIDI and offered easy patch and sound management. While there was a beta version for Mac OS X, production of SoundDiver was discontinued in the year 2005. Emagic formerly offered a line of audio interface hardware, the Audiowerk PCI cards, as well as USB units.