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E-MU 0404

Internal PCI/ISA Sound Card from E-MU

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Published on 11/17/05 at 14:03
Value For Money : Excellent
- To 192kHz, low latency, direct monitoring, the price!
- Recording a track by track home studio (style rock / metal)
- Athlon XP2000 + PC assembler, 768MB RAM, 40GB HD, on gigasys motherboard / chipset VIA KT400.
- Digital Battery (Jack), on guitar pod (jack) on bass preamp

I enjoyed having two independent outputs (one for speakers, a headphone amp for) and the DSP active at all frequencies (44/48kHz only) but hey at this price (95 €) ...

no sound as the 'PatchMix' is not launching (20MB RAM ... we recognize creative)

UTILIZATION

- Installation without any concern, after removing my other sound card.
- No conflict for now, she lives together with my carefree hercules fortissimo 3
- There are many configuration options and it is a bit complex because you have to juggle the concepts usually reserved for mixers, but you can save configurations to suit its own needs.
- Paper just enough to install, very detailed manual in PDF, I have not yet read!

GETTING STARTED

- Por drivers ok now
- Free updates with new features
- Cubase sx v2 walk nickel, just remember to give the latency with the load of plug ins and the number of track, if it cracks necessarily.
- Cubase measures:
- 1 audio track 96kHz: 3ms input / output 2ms
- 32 audio tracks + various plug ins 44kHz: 9ms / 7ms
- I record a stereo track by reading a 20taine of audio / midi

OVERALL OPINION

- 3 months
(+) Clarity of sound I / O, despite a low-end PC assembler I have no noise, the output power is very adequate on monitoring speakers
(-) A single analog output
- I tried the usb audiophile, much less stable, not latency direct monitoring
- Excellent value for money
- I do it again this election!