So, im out here in Seattle visiting my grandma and since they have a guitar center and chico doesnt i decided to take a little trip to tha store and cop a dope soundcard! - Cant wait to get home and install tha bitch!...Tha breakout box iz madness!, Its got rediculous outs and ins for everything!
Jus forked out tha cheese for tha EMU 1280
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RigorMortis
Army Of Darkness
ill o.g.
nice one duece
Formant024
Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
Nice, good one...
Just a tip, hook up with the E-Wire protocol, get to know it and leave the mixer at first in the standard mode ( there's loads of templates ).
Just a tip, hook up with the E-Wire protocol, get to know it and leave the mixer at first in the standard mode ( there's loads of templates ).
Yooo!! Also: I peeped some real dope nearfield desktop monitors for my setup!! Some brand i never heard of, but they sounded fucking phenomanal!! Theyre called like KRK's i think, they were only tha 5 inch subs and about 75 watts RMS a speaker if im not mistaken and that shit sounded soooo clean! - They run about 150 bucks a pop, so yer looking at roughly 325 or so for tha 2 of them....Im savin up for those suckers as we speak - im on a rampage now to have a real setup instead of my ghetto fab one ive had for 2 1/2 years!
.....Anyways, some of you guys should do a search for those and peep em out, if yer lookin for some dope monitors in a descent price range, these also blew tha m-audio audios and tha events out of tha water!
-STEEZ
.....Anyways, some of you guys should do a search for those and peep em out, if yer lookin for some dope monitors in a descent price range, these also blew tha m-audio audios and tha events out of tha water!-STEEZ
Formant024
Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
You bought the rokits ? good buy, krk's nice. Lookin' forward to hear from your productions on this kit.
Nah. I still need to buy them, i was jus sayin that im gettin them soon and i checked em out in tha shop...theyre pretty dam clean too. Im fin to sell my snowboard on e-bay tonight and my older gear like my pants and boots, that should hopefully make that purchase back?....Ill hollar tho when i cop tha hoes! lol...I cant wait.
I did get tha card in last night and everything seemed to install with no problems...Im at work right now, so when i get home later im gonna test out tha pre's and check tha thang out better! - I noticed right off tha bat tho that this card projects a waaaay more TRU sound then before....Its like everything actually sounds different, but that same u kno>?
I did get tha card in last night and everything seemed to install with no problems...Im at work right now, so when i get home later im gonna test out tha pre's and check tha thang out better! - I noticed right off tha bat tho that this card projects a waaaay more TRU sound then before....Its like everything actually sounds different, but that same u kno>?
RigorMortis
Army Of Darkness
ill o.g.
yeah i heard it at a friend of mine the sound is indeed different better actually hehehe
Formant024
Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
DueceMade Ent. said:
This due a few facts you can gain from reading the specs.
SNR output, signal to noise ratio, this determines your noisefloor, the amount of headroom. This implies that you can have a bigger peak range per channel, so that you can boost a signal further without creating harmonic distrortion as quick as an audigy card would. Al cards have a snr, actualy anything electronic device that has audio ouput. What makes a card have this potential is determined by what bitrate is available (16 or 24, 32bit floating is emulated ) and the oem of the converters. Now normally you would assume that considering a lot of cards are 24Bit they should have the same range of the emu, but fact is that most cards dont even process 24bit although the specs say so. They differ and are somtimes just 18Bits max giving out a 110db snr ( above 110db noise will be created ), I cant recall the spec list from all the cards but the average sb! has an output of 98db or less, the digirack 002 has 20bit and a 115db snr and the emu boast 24bit true and a max of 120dB snr. This means your potential tracks will sound much harder but yet with much more space left in the mix oppossed to the crammed up, wall of sound mixes. Emu I think is the only one so far to bring a card with true 24bit processing enabling a 120db fro like a third/fourth of the usuall pricetag, hence them being so interesting.
I heard tha same information from tha guy that sold me tha card but i thought he was blowin hot air!?.....Thats tight tho, i can def tell tha difference...Tho on tha DSP Patchmixer, im still a little confused at a few things like: tha internal clock speed being locked at 44k??, And im a little confused as to what exact EMU driver im really supposed to be telling my audio prgms to be using??, Ive been jus selecting tha ASIO EMU driver, but theres also like tha Multimedia EMU driver and one more i cant remember...I jus chose tha ASIO one since it seemed to show 0 latency when i chose it for example in reason....Oh!, and whats tha deal with tha OUTPUT assignment screen?...Whats tha point of choosing tha Monitor box or tha Mix box?....Im gonna do some reading in a minute on this shit, but i know u got a EMU Form, so i figured u might be able to break it down quicker?
STEEZ
STEEZ
Formant024
Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
DueceMade Ent. said:
nah, it's not locked, it only functional for Connected Digital output, it has nothing to do with internal processing, just I/O for digital devices. I would read internaly and I think it has some smart pipeline structure to sync to external digital devices automaticly to their settings. This sync's internal clock says, hey im da host, any I/O signal slaves to my sync. Mostly a lot of different digital I/O will be messy and latency causes the music to sound fucked up. Locking it simply means no device will screw with your setting and all different format will be converted by the eh converter.
Well it depends on how you want to use all the features, in time you'll learn what's functional to you and what not. It's quite confusing at start but after filtering what you need and use, you'll be left with some features you wont need which you can consider as a luxury issue because those are pretty smart functions/features.
An example of how to use the EMU ASIO driver in the simplest matter;
Open Default Mix template in DSP mixer, you can set it to 24Bit, leave the rest at 44kHz for now.
FL4.x, set driver to EMU ASIO, set your latency. Close FL.
Cubase SX, open new empty 16 or 24bit/44kHz, Hit F11 and load the FLStudioVSTi(multi), a fl box should appear in your down left corner.
Hit the edit button in the Cubase vst window or hit the FL logo in the vstbox and get into the FLmixer (F9).
In the bottom of the mixerbox there's the outbox selected to Master (internal 2-track of FL ) which you can now switch to ASIO 1 to 32. Simply set mixer channel 1 to asio 1 and repeat till 16 which would be enough ( you can go up to 32 and setting the other 32 to master).
Next open the Sample Setup window(F6) of Chnl 1, and Click+hold left mouse button on the 2digit box in the upper right corner and move mouse up or down to assign to the FLmixer. naturaly, chnl 1 goes chnl on the FL.
DONT load any samples yet, you're making a template here.
Save this file as the Empty.flp which you can find in the system folder of the FL directory. Just for the sake of backup.
If you do this correctly, the input given on the FL mixer will correspond to the mixerchannels in Cubase (F3), respectivly 1 to 16.
Now go to file and select save as template, and name it FL Template.
Done, next time you start a track you simply select the FLpreset when starting Cubase SX without having to route any audio.
Tip, dont mess with the FLmixer faders, just output every instrument in FL as loud as possible and then balance your mix on the cubase mixer.
Oke, reason does the same, just route your output from every instrument to the interface, im not quite sure in which priority you have to start programs. I havent tried asio on reason since I dont use reason anymore, rewire could be easier.
Hehe, I dont own one, but got to work on one with my dj who bought the Emulator X.
What you're looking at is actualy a virtual inline mixer, just like the topaz we're using in the studio. The principle of this approach is to keep your actions non-destructive and less noisy while editing/producing. There's a lot to it, explained here http://www.musicianstechcentral.com/mixer.html , I dont mind typing but damn, it a lot of knowledge.
This principle however applies to bands and their equipment used and/or the required mics, electronic music and hiphop is simple and I assume that with the 1820 there's a dsp preset/template ready with all I/O from the card + box already routed. They should already show up in most platforms except logic where you must custom a mixer by preferences.
Formant024
Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
Well, I dunno what you're using at the moment but I find the FL + Cubase SX a very convenient daw setup, but I have to say that Im nore @ home with automation in logic, just better ( FL is a cake too ).
Formant024
Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
I dont think Rewire is as effecient protocol as the EMU asio driver.
Formant024
Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
Nope, indeed. In principle Rewire does the same thing, routing virtual channels, host-> slave.