EMU and ASIO Driver Issue

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Throwing a question out here to the group.

I loaded Windows XP an older Dell laptop that I salvaged. I loaded my EMU drivers for my 0204 and I can not select the sampling rate in the EMU settings window. The sample rate is locked at 44.1, but the EMU settings screen is blank where you would select the sample rate. I'm guessing Windows audio is selecting the sampling frequency.

Also, when using ARTA, I have no ASIO choice in the audio setup screen. I compared settings and driver versions with my standard laptop and everything is the same. The salvaged laptop uses some Realtek audio driver for the hardware supplied. I'm thinking the issue is here.

Looking to see if anyone has any experience.

Thanks,

Dave
 
Hello

You cannot select samplerate on the fly on the Emu devices.

You will have to create a new session or open one of the templates. This is activated by the 'New' button on the six buttons above the Effect/Input/output window.

This has other profound consequences. If any app sends a different samplerate to the device, the driver will ask you to open/create a new session before doing anything else. Playback may fail. This means you should have resampling enabled in either Windows or other applications.

ASIO should be available with the default driver, however being totally unfamiliar with ARTA I cannot advise further. You need to set up one mixer strip for ASIO input, however in most preloaded sessions this should already be available.

The way to treat E-Mu and Patchmix is like a hardware mixer, not a soundcard. Which means a bunch of physical and virtual I/O, and with flexible internal and external routing along with some hardware DSP effects. That may help, as it's quite different from a regular soundcard driver in that sense. You need mixer strips and can route each strip to send/returns or to physical I/O, or even between each other. Windows needs to see the Wave input, and ASIO apps need to see ASIO 1/2.
 
Thought about it when I went to bed last night and checked this morning. There is an EMU service that needs to be running and it was disabled. Set it to automatic, started the service and problem solved. This is in Windows services under computer management.

Dave
 
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