All user reviews for the E-MU 1820

These are 8-channel 24-bit motivated me for the price, I use it in a home studio for recording voice, guitar or solo instrument often, sometimes recording drums, and equity group multitrack rarely.
PC System Win 7 64-bit drivers have been updated since XP and it works perfectly, even if the card is no longer in catalog E-Mu.

UTILIZATION

Drivers are updated for Win 7 64-bit, perhaps for the last time? In any case I record up to 8 tracks smoothly on Samplitude ProX.
Against by the software package with Cubase had no interest.
I count since I use 0 latency direct monitoring.

GETTING STARTED

Immediate implementation, updating drivers without incompatibilities easy for my config.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 8 years, the price / quality ratio seems fine, the problem is just the price of other cards you can find 8 channels.
Repeat this choice at the time, yes. Today the card is no longer sold, pending is "My sound card."

I bought it as soon as it came out. I am happy for my audio applications. my sequencer Cubase SX 2 runs well with. the audio dock and the menu offers lots of possibilities. it handles very well in all my other windows applications such as games and DVDs. Asio 2 takes care of everything! Finally, a card not too expensive and professional. (I recommend for a good scratch DI anyway)

UTILIZATION

Warning! initialization bug patch mix sometimes at startup of Windows XP. must then wait.
the configuration is pretty cool. manual CD is zero. but it helps out

GETTING STARTED

I will think about updating drivers, but I have not the exact address.

OVERALL OPINION

She arrived pile hair. My choice will be focused on the 2496 RME.

I work on a PC Athlon XP2000 + 1.8 GHz, 1024 to DDRAM and four hard drives, including one for music and a 80 G 160 G.
I work a lot with Sonar 4 and a lot of VST instruments.
I had a Soundblaster Live Platinum.
So a lot of latent hope in the fall sharply with this new card.

UTILIZATION

This is where the complications begin.
Installation software, nothing to say. But just to read the instructions ..... the manual is a bit short.

GETTING STARTED

And here I plug in my guitar and I found an old file that I wanted to add a little guitar.
But no sound. I am looking at the presets (everything is in English in this card?) After several fruitless searches, this is it! sound, but after noon, more soundfonts.
No problems stall, no latency issues, just one problem .... sound.

OVERALL OPINION

I think it will take me a long time to tame the beast.
What saddens me is the loss of soundfonts is a trademark of Creative (those who bought E-MU, which made their sound cards with E-MU inside)
Response E-MU, you just buy Emulator X to be able to refill your Soundfonts (I have over 300) and voila € 100 more to go.
I think I made a good choice by taking the full map for a small price, despite all the criticism I've done, but I find it silly that lack of integration with soundfonts Vienna scheduled for this card.

O In the era of music I started I had a simple Hercules Muse 5.1 DVD, a quality mdiocre Employment musique.Donc the emu 1820 is impossible as a choice of references. 24 bit / 192 kHz, inputs and outputs of a DIFFERENT kind not knowing what to do, and the collection's outdoor rack is very practical when you have a variety of connections faire.La quality audio is superb, and this card is for me a REFERENCE, emu oblige.Je used with a PC with a quip AMD Sempron 2400 +, 1536 MB of DDRAM, a 80 GB hard drive , and another 40 go, and my motherboard is an MSI K7N2 delta.A that I adjoin a simple keyboard MIDI control, roland ed pc 180a, and speakers who have nothing but uninhabited fund s'aquittent trs good of their spots, Altec Lansing 221 2.1.Je'm using mainly for work in audio, and sometimes by noon.

UTILIZATION

Installation is easy, only the power cable can Drout few uns.Il was no inconsistency, as well as hardware configuration logiciel.La when it has left me perplexed a can, so I work with the original. I think it works more than bien.Par against the manual, thank you emu, he would not put that I'd be out as well.

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are stable trs, and in terms of updates I think it's going ncssaires occasionally see the manufacturer's website to keep the software courant.Les I'm using are the ones that came with the card, so Cubase VST 5.1 and WaveLab Lite 2.5.J 've added a lot of VST effects and VSTi instruments that I found in freeware.Je also works with 2 storm that has crs am using my audio sounds for that matter after I cubase.La latency in the most appropriate my setup is 5 ms for all the numbers logiciels.Pour of tracks that I can read, I do not know, but to give an order of ides, with 9 audio tracks, effects to most tracks, automation, and mastering effects on the tracks master, I get a 10% cpu usage.

OVERALL OPINION

I use this card for 6 months, and what j'apprcie most is the sound that it has a.Biensur other converter as its quality, its quality ... Its AudioDock gnrale fait.Le only in MODEL I used before is a Muse 5.1 DVD ... In other words, I am pleased to have this aquisition.Pour the price it is true that may sound lev I know I have the first ahsiter t, but given the quality of this one and saw the software offering, if the choice had to be rebuilt would be the same.

6 between mono jacks
2 input jacks / Stereo XLR with prampli (which works quite well) + phantom power supply
2 MIDI input (in out)

8 outputs mono jacks
1 RCA
4 Output Stereo mini jack
The outputs walk two by two. Qd we send the sound to output 1, the sound is sent on both mono output jacks 1 (left and right) and a Stereo mini jack output. (You can have the sound on the left or the right but always on simultanment 2 outputs)
+ 1 headphone output with volume control (very convenient!)

I use it with my bass, my guitar, my piano, my synth (midi) and my microphone. Everything is connected and the rest! When we play it has several nice, everyone has a small adjustment on cubase and starts the volume and effects that he wants.

It supports ASIO (2.4m qd I record only)
Update: never make it work just fine ...

UTILIZATION

Instalation difficult thing (I'm not very ms pain either)
The manual is unclear ...
I galr to match inputs to outputs on the logitiel provided. But after testing, research and advice on the internet, everything works to perfection. The settings are there and I mmoriss plus.Il editing took me a week to make it work, but it works. (Again I am not pain ...)

GETTING STARTED

Drivers -> I c j not how it works have just click ok
UPDATED -> No internet on pc music
Logitiels -> Cubase sx2 and final 2003 (noon it works with keyboard, drums I have not tried.
Latency -> 2.4 I'm alone qd / Playing a more -> ok c GLR of 10-15 (all in 48kHz)

Latency increases when one uses noon (20ms with other instruments at the same time). If not using all between Jack and with effects we can turn to 5-10ms.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 7 months. Latency is very low and the fact of not having to plug and unplug all of my instruments is great!!
I tried a TerraTec has 8 inputs and outputs, but they were all in CAR dc ca was only 4 inputs and 4 outputs! In addition to the RCA is not practical! I immediately ramen by the seller that I noticed!!

I believe that to 400E there is no card has as many inputs and outputs and with a latency as low! I recommend this card if you want to play and record in a group without latency

I bought the EMU in 1820 following fairly glowing reviews from the specialized press and to be able to use samplers to EMU (Proteus, Emulator X).
My config (PC): Motherboard: abit nf7m
CPU: athlon xp 2500
Memory: 1024MB (Kinston DDR333)

UTILIZATION

Easy to install, provided you do not use the original drivers!

GETTING STARTED

I met with this card strangely intractable problems (several hours with the hot line of EMU, sympathetic but powerless): Unable to save directly into Sound Forge 7, incessant need to reset the ASIO driver in Logic Platinum 5.5. Can not save configurations PatchMix ...
Today I threw in the towel and went back to the novation speedio, less complete but much more stable and uneventful. Too bad, because the sound is excellent at EMU else

OVERALL OPINION

It is unfortunate that this type of product does not work every time on every machine because the user I'm lost his time and money ...

I opted for an EMU 1820 6 months ago for its ability to allow you to route an input signal to any output. She is primarily a "table mix" digital mixer for two keyboards and a microphone. The presence of XLR inputs and preamps also helped my choice. Quality (announced, I could not check other than with my ears) converters have completed my decision. It is not given, but with her it is quiet for a while.

UTILIZATION

Installed without any problems on Windows XP. The manual ... my faith I did not look much, use the setup program (routing I / O) is not immediate, you have to click and it crashes a few times before as the config you want. Advantage, it is recorded once and for all and no one ever loses. Once this configuration made it very simply be used in either ASIO WAVE, nothing special to mention about that.

GETTING STARTED

Top. I have no problem with it. Sometimes (I suspect the eve of my old machine to be for something like this) the driver says "Hardware not found, please reinstall". It does not stop working, but I cut access control software. Annoying but not fatal.
It works for me in Sonar, Sound Forge, sometimes I use it with Media Player. it all works perfectly. I have long used a latency of 5ms, which proved to be a bit limited for the recording and replay sometimes (I have an old machine). I went up to 10 (not used me very little VST, it does not matter too much) and there FLOW.

OVERALL OPINION

For six months I use it, it still satisfies me and I am using only a fraction of its potential. The sound is good, it scales well sampling rate (the price of sacrificing high outputs), it is stable. In short, we quickly forget it's there and that's what I think is what I would do if I choose to do it again.

The CHARACTERISTICS that motivated my choice:

- The number of input / output (Even if for the moment I am using only two inputs and output pramplifies Master) => Evolution Home-studio possible without changing card;
- Both inputs pramplifies;
- The opinion DIFFERENT posts by same

The use I made:

I use this card mainly to record guitars and vocals.

My config:
Amd 3000 +, 512MB RAM, 120 GB Hard Drive
I put 10 as my ideal CHARACTERISTICS

UTILIZATION

Installation:

No problem, we install the PCI card, the driver, plug the interface and a roll No incompatibilitsdtectes

Configuration:

The mixer (The PatchMix) is not empty forcment beginners to understand if we have to do routing. For my part, I left the base, I just changed the slices, in which case, any difficulty.

Ngatif point however, the drivers sometimes crash .. Gnant is not unbearable, it reboot and it's good.

Manual:

It's clear air .. Actually, I really had no need to open it I saw the use of the card.

GETTING STARTED

Stability of drivers:

See above

Software utiliss:

Sonar, energyXT tripper when I want or just save an IDE, and VST (i)

Latency:

5 ms is nickel

Number of tracks with VSTi instruments and / or that I can read simultanment:

Assuming that I use exclusively VST (i) not too CPU intensive, I can read an average of seven tracks (Remembering that I only have 512 MB of RAM .. It helps not!)

OVERALL OPINION

This is THE FIRST audio interface I acquri following the ras-le-bol caused by the audio chipset on my motherboard, so I do not really lments of comparison but I use this sound card a few months and I am fully satisfied!

If I had to buy a card, I would do this choice? Yes, I think! As mentioned above, the fact that I can serve me in many configurations diffrent is an important issue and its report is qualitprix INTERESTED.

Overall rating: 8 / 10. J'enlve two points because of the crashes (but not rguliers happens from time to time) of drivers. Nothing too serious, I never lost my job but can be Gnant when you are full Fast Fashion

CHARACTERISTICS:
- Pramplis 2 mic / line - connection Neutrick Combo Jack / XLR
on which to connect:
- A micro (with or without PSU 48 V Phantom)
- Keyboard
- A guitar with automatic adjustment of impdance
Each prampli possde own potentiomtre rglage of gain.
. + 20 dB + 55 dB between the XLR
. - 10 dB + 25 dB between the Line
Food fantme is enabled for both channels at the same time by a switch
and distinguished by a light. Two commands would damage spares t better.
Be careful not to feed into a 48 volt microphone that does not ncssite.

- 6 between 6.35 symtriques jack rear face (8 in total with two in front).
- 8 output jack symtriques 6.35 rear facing.
- Between a phono (with RIAA prampli and grounding)
- 8 inputs / outputs numriques via port 24-bit ADAT 96 kHz. 1010 on the map.
- 4 outputs optical S / PDIF.
- 2 MIDI ports (2 IN and 2 OUT) 1PORT on the front and a rear port on the front.
- 1 Stereo headphone output.
- 4 outputs HP in Stereo jack 3.5 mm (Systm surround 7.1).
- One FireWire 400 port on the card 1010.
- A DSP multi effect Intgr.
I use it with:
- A PC Athlon 2800 +
- 512 MB RAM
- 160 GB hard drive
- A microphone Behringer B1 -> Alim fantme Welcome
- A micro Beyer Opus 59 -> no power fantme
I use Cubase 5.1 VST comes with the card.
Otherwise I do not use VST software

I note 9 / 10 because of the power fantme common to both microphone inputs.

UTILIZATION

Installation:
This audio-numrique consists of a 1010 insrer card in a PCI slot of PC
External Casing and a 1820.
A connector cable with RJ45 (network) of 3 m is supplied to connect the card and the case.
It must also connect a cable provided to power the Casing in 5/12V output sector of the PC power supply.
No problem installing on a PC because Windows XP is responsible to install the drivers provided on a CD-Rom.
Ctrun.exe software to install the applications that came with the card.
It is mandatory to install the E-MU Patch Mix DSP because it can grate the map.
The Casing can be installed in a rack (hardware included) occupies a unit in height and 1 / 2 wide.
However, the indication lights frquence uses MIDI signals prsence situs on the cot and case law will not be visible in a Rack.
The bundled software:
- E-MU Patch Mix DSP dj cit above.
- Steinberg Cubase VST 5.1 version complte.
- WaveLite Steinberg.
- Plug-ins SFX Lt (I have not tried yet)

I note 10/10 because the installation does not pose a problem
and configuration and management of the card looks great with E-MU Patch Mix DSP.

GETTING STARTED

Use:

Entries
If you work the frquence of 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz, the 1820 offers 18 inputs including:
-8 Analog (2 mic combo jack / XLR and jack inputs 6 symtriques 6.35).
-8 Numriques (ADAT port on the map 1010)
Numriques -2 S / PDIF (RCA on the map 1010)

Lentre Stereo phono (RCA Casing on the 1820) is dconnecte automatically when using lentre 3 (L & R)

If you work the 96 kHz frquence DEnter down the number 10 used in two modes of work are:
-8 Analog (2 mic combo jack / XLR and jack inputs 6 symtriques 6.35).
Numriques -2 S / PDIF (RCA on the map 1010)
The port-ADAT is then disables.
or
-6 Is the 2 analog mic combo jack / XLR jack and 4 between 6.35 symtriques (entries 2 (L & R) and 3 (L & R) are then disables es.
-4 Numriques the ADAT port.

If you work in the 192 kHz frquence DEnter down the number 4 used in four modes of work are:
The 2-mic combo jack / XLR and two line two inputs (L & R)
or
The 2-mic combo jack / XLR and two channels of ADAT port.
or
2 between the line-2 (L & R) and two channels of ADAT port.
or
2 between the line-1 (L & R) and 2 between line 1 (L & R).

If you took lenvie connect more than two microphones with XLR connection on the 1820 simultanment, know quil is possible to convert the entries in the XLR jack 6.35 CC adaptation ugly EST possible! It will then lapplication via E-MU Patch Mix DSP gre paramtrer the 1820 level dentre -10 to + 4 dB. Cest prvu!

I notice 7 / 10 because I only started using this card.
I will return to correct if necessary.

OVERALL OPINION

Global Reviews

I will return ds complter notice I have a little more exprience with this card.
I just buy it and install it.
I bought it in Germany and I have no doc in French.
Rest assured if you buy it in France it will not be the case.
I have no other exprience in the Contents is my Premire card on PC.
The price is 399 Euros
The report qualitprix seems excellent.
It seems to me that this price there is no comparison on the market.
I also considered buying a Lexicon Omega but it is more and seems less CHRE complte among other effects in the Intgr 1820.

I notice 7 / 10 because I only started using this card.
I will return to correct if necessary.

Its real nice to have all the inputs and outputs, the mic preamps sound great, except after 2 years of use the A line has been having some voltage issues, large fluctuations at about .5 hz. The onboard effects are a nice touch, but i hardly use them, they have weird latency problems when i link them into FL Studio.

Price paid: 399 USD

UTILIZATION

It took me a bit to understand how it went about using asio, but now that i understand it i get around pretty well, and ut can actually be fun to use. I can put reverb on someones voice while recording dry. Its nice to have a digital mixer, but an analog mixer is ten times better.

GETTING STARTED

Like i said earlier the mic A input is hardly usable now, and the headphone input is feeling loose(pops and cracks when moved), guess it might be time to get a headphone amp, and maybe a mic pre. It was great while it worked though.

OVERALL OPINION

Well MUCH better than the crap that comes out of a stock sound card. Though I havn't heard any other interfaces in the price range through my monitors.

Well it was my first prosumer card, and i don't have much to base my opinion on other than my friends equipment. It definatly has better features than other interfaces in its price range. Its treated me well, but it hasn't been increadibly reliable. I'll have to get a new interface at some point, and i'm not going to buy another EMU. I guess its a good card for the money, but its only to tie you over till you go for the big/expensive stuff.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Ethereal (January 2-, 2005)