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Merging Technologies S.A. (often called Merging) is a Swiss manufacturer of professional audio hardware and software.

History
Merging Technologies was founded in 1990 in Puidoux, Vaud, by EPFL electrical engineering graduate Claude Cellier.

Digital eXtreme Definition
DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition) was initially developed by Merging for the Merging Pyramix workstation and introduced together with their Sphynx 2, AD/DA converter in 2004. This combination meant that it was possible to record and edit directly in DXD, and that the sample only converts to DSD once before publishing to SACD. This offers a great advantage to the user as the noise created by converting DSD rises dramatically above 20 kHz, and more noise is added each time a signal is converted back to DSD during editing.

Hardware
Hardware manufactured by Merging includes the following:
 * Mykerinos (DSP card, now discontinued)
 * DUA & DUAII (AD/DA converters, now discontinued)
 * Sphynx & Sphynx 2 (AD/DA converters, now discontinued)
 * Horus (Networked AD/DA audio interface)
 * Hapi (Networked AD/DA audio interface)
 * MERGING+NADAC (Audiophile DAC)
 * MERGING+ANUBIS (Networked AD/DA audio interface)

Software
Merging develops software products which include the following:


 * Pyramix: A digital audio workstation (DAW).
 * Ovation: a media server and sequencer.
 * VCube: a video player and recorder.