EMU 0404 Installation

Roger,
That looks just as it should.
PCI Card In L, and PCI Card In R are Physical inputs, as is the SP/DIF input. These are blue to differentiate them from the virtual channels.
Wave L/R will show activity from computer sounds, and other Windows sources.
The ASIO OUT 31/32 strip will show the output from MC, if you have its output set to E-MU-ASIO OUT.
While we have your screen shots up, I think I see why you can only select Left or Right inputs one at a a time.
Look at the top shot, where you have "host" highlighted.
Look at strips 3 and 4.
Strip 3-Insert 2 -->ASIO IN 1/2
Strip 4-Insert 2 -->ASIO IN 3/4
This refers to the SEND in the strips. These SENDs are essential to make the Input available to your software (MC) to record, BUT, they are STEREO. This is built into the ASIO protocol, and I don't believe there is any way around that. What does this mean to you?
MC has a two input limit, and ASIO is, by default, using both of them for a single Mono input. If you are a one man show, like me, this is not crippling, but something to be aware of. SHS does not have this limit, and that's why I can enable both inputs.
I should have mentioned that sooner, but it only gelled today, looking at your screens.
You see activity in my screen shot, in the ASIO OUT strip because I was playing "Downtown" when I captured the screen.
It is reflecting the output from SHS. If you play a track or soft synth through MC, you will see activity here as well.
Let's back up for just a minute.
Your screens show activity on PCI Card L & R, plus the Main Mix(main out). Is that from your mic?
At this point, anything that is plugged into the mixer can be heard through the speakers on your amp. If you plug your guitar in, you should hear it. Turn all unused channels on your mixer to Zero, to minimize noise.
I'm going to migrate the step -by-step from the other thread for anybody tagging along. Let me know where you are at this point.
Everything appears to be functioning, so let me know if you get stuck.

Robert:

I sort of wondered if having the mixer plugged in forced the card to go to the PCI L/R channels. I even tried unplugging the inputs and starting patchmix then, but saw no activity. That makes sense now. The mic was turned off, but the acoustic guitar was plugged in at the time. I wonder if my pickups are that sensitive (or gain was that high) and activity was showing up even thought the guitar was just sitting there. I'll turn them down next time.

Side note: if I press keys on MIDI controler (keyboard), it causes small jumps in activity, but no sound. Why?

Relative to the "one man show", yes it's just me, so (hopefully) that won't be a problem.

I did select E-DSP as output in MC, but even after loading Downtown, got no sound output. Nothing from keyboard either (even though I HAD it before, in something or the other previous "guessed" setting).

Back home, so I'll implement your next step tomorrow.

Thanks.

While I'm thinking about this...

Previously I mentioned that I had just accepted the default record rate at 44,100 kbs at the patchmix startup. I just realized one good reason to DO that; I had posted (what I thought was) a really good song on SoundClick. But then somebody listened to it and posted "Did you really MEAN for it to sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks?" I realized that I had been experimenting with bit rates and bumped it up to either 48K or 96K (higher is better, right?). But apparently SoundClick likes it at a nice balmy 41, no more, no less. The song played rediculously fast so I pulled it and will remix at the slower rate.

So what are the other rates used for? What is purpose of higher rates that you can't use? Sound studio work, like "Master CDs"? I think I am beginning to understand why some of my exports play on my car stereo, while others will ONLY play in a computer CD drive.

RMc

The higher sampling rates create a denser sound, more full, thicker, but can eat up your HD space, and processing power. Once finished with your high-sampling/bit-rate song, you would then mix it down to CD standard 44.1 kHz and 16 bit.
Glad you got it going.

I'm almost as glad to see that as you are Roger!!
It's been a long road, and I've still got the old e-mails.
Don't sweat the higher sample rates. Most of your plug-ins only work up to 48k anyway, and there is no real need to put your CPU and HD through the stress.
Go, man, go!!!

There are things that you can do with the patch mix part of the emu cards I can't figure out. They are really versitile setups, the effects included are extensive, and the proteus is great, if a little of a cpu hog, the manual is like two inches thick, I printed it out and left it in a file. But I just use it as an interface, just working with c/w is enough of a brain drain for this old head
Later
Albert

I really don't know anything about the EMU software, hopefully RobertB will be along and help you out - he's the expert on this card.

Thanx for reply.
I'll try to elaborate. I'm a HIFI entusiast and I bought this card to get decent sound from my pc. So what I want is to make sure the output from my EMU is asio when I for instance play music with winamp, mediaplayer classic etc..and this control panels (Patchmix DSP) confuses me. Also I would like to know if it's possible to control treble and bass in patchmix ?

Maybe it's already asio out default. I just wanted to make sure.

Hope I was a little clearer this time :-)

Oops. Sorry, after ten fun filled hours at work, I fogot to check on this when I got home.
In the mode you show, the outs should be ASIO. That has more to do with timing and latency, and if you are just listening to audio playback it shouldn't really matter.
There is an EQ, but I never use it, and I don't remember exactly how to engage it. That's what I need to check on.

winamp, mediaplayer, etc are not SOURCES, they are players. SOURCES are soundcards. you can only use one soundcard in your system at a time.