Emagic was a music software and hardware company based in Rellingen, Germany and a satellite office in Grass Valley, California.
In 1992, Emagic Soft- und Hardware GmbH was founded and Notator Logic[4] was launched for Atari[5] and Macintosh, followed by a version for Windows.
Emagic formerly offered a line of audio interface hardware, the Audiowerk PCI cards, as well as USB units.
A potential post-acquisition successor to these products, the unreleased Asteroid FireWire interface, was the subject of the Apple v. Does trade secret litigation.
This announcement caused controversy in the recording industry with an estimated 70,000 users having invested in the Windows route not wishing to reinvest in a complete new system.