The process emagic.386 is known as a driver file for eMagic software. Emagic was a music software and hardware company based in Germany that was purchased by Apple Computer in July 2002. The driver emagic.386 relates to the application Logic Pro for Digital Audio Workstation that was created by EMagic, which was based on the Atari Falcon computer. Digital Audio Workstation was discontinued when PC and Macintosh hardware became more cost effective than the Atari proprietary based systems. Logic Pro from Emagic is a hybrid 32/ 64 bit digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer for Mac OS platform, and is part of Apple's Logic Srudio bundle of professional music applications. It provides software instruments, studio effects, synthesizers, and recording facilities for music synthesis and supports Apple Loops, which is professionally recorded instrument loops. Another application that uses Logic Pro's audio engine is Apple's GarageBand, which is bundled in iLife, a suite of software that comes included in any new Macintosh computer.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. emagic.386. is used by Logic pro, If you shut down emagic.386, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop emagic.386, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Logic pro, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed emagic.386

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Logic pro, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if emagic.386. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that emagic.386, belongs to, in this case Logic pro