The meeting of two developers from Dresden at a technology school and two entrepreneurs from West Germany in 1993, resulted in something like a "Big Bang" with respect to bringing multimedia into everyday life.

The algorithm of the professional program Samplitude was adjusted to create Music Maker, a program that could be used by anyone. This event marked the birth of MAGIX. Since then MAGIX offers software solutions for video and music editing, photo, graphic and web design, cross-platform apps and web services.