E-MU 1212M Sound Card Thread

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Ryssen: you've to set up Foo for ASIO output. In 'preferences' below 'output' you should have 'ASIO output' selection, and a separate set of screens to set up the output cofiguration for ASIO.

Then you can go back to 'output' and select ASIO (I think it reads E-mu ASIO).
 
dwk123,
I may be interested in your offer. I can't e-mail you since I'm still under moderation as a new user. What would be involved in a 1820 to 1212 conversion? Is it just a matter of swapping the breakout box for the 0202 daughter card and leaving the 1010 in place? To be honest, I'm not sure if I can get my 1010 out of my case! The Antec case I have has such tight pci slot "guides" that the 1010 might be a permanent resident in my computer. 🙁
Dan
 
In 'preferences' below 'output' you should have 'ASIO output' selection, and a separate set of screens to set up the output cofiguration for ASIO.
Yes I found it,but theres no Emu 1212 Asio threre..Only Roland M1000
and M-Audio Delta,that I had before.How do I get it there?

Edit:A change to 48khz frekv. gives as trebble (clear) boost! Same with your 1212m?
 
You have to remove both of them with the radio buttons below, and then click on 'new'. That should detect and select the E-Mu driver.

Actually I can't change sample rate on the fly, it stays locked on the session default and the incoming signal. I have a sceond system with an SB Live, and there I use foobar resampling ultra mode to upsample to 48Khz. That sounds a lot better than the straight mode, where AFAIK the Live! does the upsampling.

If you use the card to upsample you might not get the best possible results. But I'm not really clear where you can change the sample rate.
 
Hi again guys,

Today I tried to use analog out of the card. Spend an hour and can't make it work, both analog inputs and outputs are dead 🙁
Dont believe that daughter card is defective, more likely I am doing something wrong.
I am attaching a screenshot of a simple session where I wanted to send WAVE to analog out. I have sound at S/PDIF but not at analog out.
I really appreciate if somebody could point out what's wrong in the setup.
Thanks a lot. 🙂
 

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You have to remove both of them with the radio buttons below, and then click on 'new'. That should detect and select the E-Mu driver.
This is how it looks,it don`t detect it when I press new:

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.


I have tried to reinstall the driver.

But I'm not really clear where you can change the sample rate.

In session settings-->System-->Internal.
 
I would remove the drivers manually and then do a fresh driver install, and also a fresh install of Foobar.

Boot the PC into safe mode by pressing F8, and then run the uninstall programs.

In case you've already uninstalled, do an install again over this one, then go back into safe mode and remove the drivers.

What I can see from your screens is that the ASIO driver is not cleanly uninstalled.
 
Congratulations!

I could never change the samplerate, but I also never ran the Direct Sound driver, so didn't know you could change it.

When you do that the driver does a conversion on the fly, so the sound changes. Good to know and to avoid.
 
Come on, this is DIYAUDIO, get that soldering iron out of the closet 😛

Schematic (sorry, caps marked with T are ceramics 100n 0805).

Oh, another worthwile improvement not marked in the pic is changing the caps on Vd and Va on the DAC to 4.7uf 0805 ceramics instead of the 0.1uf originals, and change R74 (the one after the 7805 reg with a suitable inductor - this one is actually huge improvement).

Of course, use regular OSCON SH if you can't find OSCON SEP. And maybe change the Pana FC to something to your taste.

And if you don't have any caps on hand for starters bridge the coupling caps between the dacs and the buffering OPAs. Be prepared for jaw-drop mode.

Another tweak (if you have a next stage with suitable impedance is bypassing the output stage alltogether - just remember to use say 22R resistors to isolate from cable capacitance on the CS4398 out - download datasheet to see what goes where as signal out - mmm balanced).
 

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Thanks for the schema and the pics, lucpes.

What is the total DC-offset after bypassing the DAC caps?

My system is totally DC-coupled and even a small offset creates SQ and DC problems at the amp output. I had picked up 47 uF FC caps for the output, and was considering ordering some BG 47 uf NX caps for those positions.

Also Iron dreamer on the Head-fi forums did extensive mods (wait a minute, weren't you there too?) and found there was no benefit to increasing cap values, just upgrading to better caps was enough.

Lastly, did you or did you not add local bypass to the 2068 or replacement opamps? The creamics are quite some way away from the opamps, and maybe the opamps will benefit from supply bypassing.
 
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