1820 users, plz help!

[Malice_227]

Ok, my 1820 came in the other day and Ive been at it ever since, but I still can't figure some things out.

It took me forever to figure out how to record at 96 Khz, the reason I couldnt was because it just wouldnt record at that rate in soundforge, soon as I tried in cubase it worked. However, when Im recording at 96 Khz I can't listen to anything in winamp, usually I record my guitar or whatever while listening to the drums in winamp, Ive found a way around it but its still inconvenient.

Also, how do I record in 24 bit? Ive looked and fiddled for literally hours with the EMU patchmix and Ive yet to find a tab allowing me to record at 24 bit. I can tell cubase Im recording at 24 bit, and save the file at 24 bit, but I have to wonder if its an actual recording at 24 bit or if cubase just converts it when I save the file as 24 bit.

My last question is, does anybody else get very poor sound quality when listening to things in winamp? I mean it goes all distorted for a sec and goes back to normal, and then distorted, then normal etc. Maybe its dirver related?

The sound quality I'm getting from recording sounds amazing, very loud crisp clear guitar without a hint of noise, and thats great, but I like to listen to music to, and I wouldnt want to have to open soundforge or cubase or somthing and open the file to listen to it, I can only assume its the windows sound drivers, as the ASIO drivers work great (I have 2 mili second delay in VST, err the lowest delay whatever), any comments on this?

Thanks.

 

[Sklathill]

There's no setting for 16 or 24 bit in the patchmix software...if it's 24 bit set in Cubase, you're recording in 24 bit. This is normal behavior for all cards.

When recording in 96 khz, are you loading up a 96 khz session in Patchmix? If you are in that 96 khz session, then Windows wil sample rate converting the Winamp output to match, and that could be why you're experiencing distortion.

Also, Soundforge doesn't use the ASIO drivers...it uses MME, and that's a fault of E-mu, actually, for not developing their MME and WDM drivers as well as their ASIO. MME 96 khz I believe just doesn't work yet.

Me, I run evertying at 24/44 (since I need all of my ins) and I don't experience any problems with Winamp or soundforge. If you can live with that, I figure that would solve your problems, but, if you need 96, you'll need to wait...

 

[Malice_227]

Well Ive figured a way around having to use win amp, and I can now record at 96 Khz, going to try 192 later. I have to say the sound quality is amazing, my only bottle necks now are the actual signal going into the card. I have a great distortion on my BOSS GT 6, its very loud and crystal clear and has absolutly no noise, trying to get the same thing with an acoustic setting on the other hand is a different story. I think I may have to invest in some new chords as well.

Have you tried using the S/PIDF yet? would their be a noticable quality increase using the S/PIDF compared to any of the other inputs?

Thanks for replying.

 

[Sklathill]

SPDIF is SPDIF. As long as everything is working, the thing that's plugged in dictates sound quality. I don't use it for much in recording...I just pop my LD player in it, honestly. It's...an SPDIF.