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  • zenbasszenbass

    Very good map, although controversial.

    E-MU 1616M PCIPublished on 12/27/12 at 08:56
    (This content has been automatically translated from French)
    Hello,

    technical characteristics that motivated the choice: the price / performance ratio announced, the number of inputs, built-in effects, the brand, I did not know at the time that E-MU was bought by creative labs.

    external instruments connected to it are:
    1 Behringer UMX 490 USB Keyboard 61 keys connected USB 2 on the PC.
    1 Keyboard USB M-Audio Axiom 25 USB 2 connected to the PC.
    AKAI EWI 1 EWIUSB connected USB 2 on the PC.
    1 pedal midi (noon 5 pin plug) (low organ pedal) connected to the midi-in micro-dock E-MU
    1 electric bass in Mic 2 micro-dock E-MU
    1 Shure SM58 mic input 1 microphone-dock E-MU
    And it all works together

    What system: a PC mounted home today is A…
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    Hello,

    technical characteristics that motivated the choice: the price / performance ratio announced, the number of inputs, built-in effects, the brand, I did not know at the time that E-MU was bought by creative labs.

    external instruments connected to it are:
    1 Behringer UMX 490 USB Keyboard 61 keys connected USB 2 on the PC.
    1 Keyboard USB M-Audio Axiom 25 USB 2 connected to the PC.
    AKAI EWI 1 EWIUSB connected USB 2 on the PC.
    1 pedal midi (noon 5 pin plug) (low organ pedal) connected to the midi-in micro-dock E-MU
    1 electric bass in Mic 2 micro-dock E-MU
    1 Shure SM58 mic input 1 microphone-dock E-MU
    And it all works together

    What system: a PC mounted home today is Asrock motherboard that I highly recommend (forget ASUS, MSI, I tried everything from long Asrock is the best). USB3 SATA3, video card (ATI) integrated. 2 SSD 120 GB each. 16 GB of RAM, no swap file (pagefile). All integrated in a flight case with an old 15-inch LCD monitor integrated additional graphics card with 2 video outputs external monitor to put a + great at home when I bump sounds, and receive a 2nd output to video projector the scene, already tested with a small video projector. Otherwise I have everything plugged into the same flight case:
    Micro-dock connection (RJ45 + 48 Volt 4 outlets USB2, USB3 4 outlets, 5 outlets power supply, 9 volt power ... what you want, stomp, recorder, etc. ... it avoids lug adapters or batteries

    For what purpose: rehearsals and scenes. I use Ableton Live, tracks routed via ASIO PatchMix this E-MU PCI1616. For now I have about a dozen MIDI tracks in Ableton Live, Reason in rewire routed with 5 instruments mentioned above, and some tracks wav, Reason for return and also for pre-recorded sequences sonos WAV format on the PC. I think up to thirty tracks for a few months, or +. I also have a pedal that I made from a circuit recovered in a PC keyboard that I adapted to put electrical switches (to RCS) foot so connected to the PC via USB, to control Ableton sequences.
    The CPU is an AMD 3.6 GHz 8 cores. We located not too expensive today.

    I appreciate being able to route subsets of "slices" of Ableton Live 6 outputs to a mono) microphone-dock.

    UTILIZATION

    Drivers: I think this is the weak point of the whole, but I ended up finding various W7 64 and it works fine, no crashes, even after 3 hours of intensive use Again, in an overheated room.
    not updated, followed quite low from E-MU (Creative Labs), I think their team DEV else to do .. and it's a shame, but I do not have a problem , it's okay.

    Software: I wrote High at the top of the stack is Ableton Live, below is found rewire, Reason 5 and other software, such as the saxophone EWI. I will try other software in a short time.

    How many tracks: Well, it's clear, I do not register with this configuration. To save, I have a standalone digital recorder Zoom R24 (24 tracks with 8 recordable simultaneously) which works very well and is not expensive at all (I highly recommend). Cons by reading I read about a fortnight tracks no worries, I'm sure to exceed fifty, at least for MIDI and 7 or 8 mode wav.

    Latency: Topic poorly understood and controversial. There is software to test it. For me, this is the time lag between when I press a key on the keyboard (or breath in EWI) and when the sound comes from the speakers. This is what counts as a musician. And you should know that it depends not only on the sound card ... I use ASIO drivers provided by E-MU, and I have no noticeable latency (and I'm demanding on this point), even with multiple MIDI tracks / rewire playing and two keyboards simultaneously with 4 agreements notes each. The E-MU has much to do, but also PC config, especially the 3.6 GHz CPU 8 cores and 16 GB of RAM. Board, it is better a 4 cores at 3.5 GHz or 3.6 that 8 cores at 2.9 GHz (if it exists). CPU speed plays a lot of latency.

    For example, I'm impressed with the bass, I get low on micro-dock driving directions from PatchMix to Ableton Live on a track wav, I added 3 vst effects (Preamp tubes, cabinet simulation HP, reverb) , reroute everything to an input of Patchmix Host Asio. And when I play a note on the bass, I do not perceive any latency. It's as if I was plugged directly into the amp.

    GETTING STARTED

    Installation: Nothing to say, except to find the right drivers. ==> Do not forget to disable in the BIOS the onboard sound card on the motherboard, it can disrupt serious ....

    Configuration: At the beginning it is quite confusing, read the manual, and we understand little by little, it is a long experiment, I think it might be a little + intuitive. But the hardest part is to understand the music software that you will use, and make them work with the E-MU 1616. Ableton, I still find it hard to dip some aspects, but it just must READ the doc several times if necessary.

    Incompatibilities: No, no, as stated above +, disable in the BIOS the internal sound card and it runs .... if you have the right drivers.

    Manual: relatively clear. For cons, I struggled to find where it is written that if one uses a sampling frequency higher than 44.1/48 Mhz ..... Effects integrated into the sound card does not work any more. this is bad, it made me mad, it is nowhere stated before purchase. This is handy built-in effects, it consumes zero CPU.

    OVERALL OPINION

    I use it for 3 or 4 years.

    I have not tried other external sound cards previously only integrated sound card for motherboards.

    what I like least: The integrated effects that do not work at 88.2 MHz (sax my software runs at this frequency). It is almost prohibitive, but I did not know before purchasing.

    what I love most: imperceptible latency with a good PC, the software Patchmix is ​​very well done, the doc not so bad.

    price / quality ratio: No picture, it is definitely worth the price!

    Yes I would do this choice, despite the problem that effects only work 44.1 MHz. For higher frequencies, we can circumvent the problem by inserting external effects hardwares, but must spend + .....
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  • G.jourdainG.jourdain

    very good interface

    E-MU 1616M PCIPublished on 12/21/11 at 04:52
    (This content has been automatically translated from French)
    I speak of PCIe, the pramp, the dock dport.
    pc, and plug ing SAW reaper

    Windows 7 64-bit.

    UTILIZATION

    perfect for what I do.

    soft reaper, Komplet 8 and plug-in.

    GETTING STARTED

    yes, but the same problem as all the cards that allow routing in all directions ... .. to understand, and me .. and I have the brain can not be adapted ..!

    OVERALL OPINION

    quality-price ratio, correct.
    no problem of stability never had a bug ...
    I also have a 9632 rm on another pc, the rms best latency; 3ms.la emu .. 6 ms;
    otherwise, no diffrence notorious.
    buy without risk.
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    I speak of PCIe, the pramp, the dock dport.
    pc, and plug ing SAW reaper

    Windows 7 64-bit.

    UTILIZATION

    perfect for what I do.

    soft reaper, Komplet 8 and plug-in.

    GETTING STARTED

    yes, but the same problem as all the cards that allow routing in all directions ... .. to understand, and me .. and I have the brain can not be adapted ..!

    OVERALL OPINION

    quality-price ratio, correct.
    no problem of stability never had a bug ...
    I also have a 9632 rm on another pc, the rms best latency; 3ms.la emu .. 6 ms;
    otherwise, no diffrence notorious.
    buy without risk.
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  • Anonymous

    E-MU 1616M PCIPublished on 01/02/09 at 13:38
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    This card is a bomb and sounds decidedly pro. (Pro-tools. ..). For the time being heard anything better. It is perfectly stable home. As the 1212M elsewhere. I work in IT and mao and should understand that some hardware conflicts in a computer can create artifacts, it comes from the chipset, memory, graphics card etc .... the previous opinion is completely unjustified (it does not work with me ... it sucks). I would not change a converter for high-end dedicated (not the apogee by the way).

    UTILIZATION

    Ras

    GETTING STARTED

    Ras the first version of the drivers was perfectly stable, unlike my first m-audio delta 66 years ago. It took a while at least one year of developmen…
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    This card is a bomb and sounds decidedly pro. (Pro-tools. ..). For the time being heard anything better. It is perfectly stable home. As the 1212M elsewhere. I work in IT and mao and should understand that some hardware conflicts in a computer can create artifacts, it comes from the chipset, memory, graphics card etc .... the previous opinion is completely unjustified (it does not work with me ... it sucks). I would not change a converter for high-end dedicated (not the apogee by the way).

    UTILIZATION

    Ras

    GETTING STARTED

    Ras the first version of the drivers was perfectly stable, unlike my first m-audio delta 66 years ago. It took a while at least one year of development at the time that it turns ...

    OVERALL OPINION

    Missing just two or three more INs
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