Emu Patchmix: what do you think of it?

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Reviews seem to consist of those who think it very valuable and those who think it to be Of The Damned or something.

What does it do for you?

Thanks
 
I believe it's very powerful, but probably shpould only be approached by people with IQs > 60 and who hold a belief that good things come to those willing to put a little time and effort into something.

Iin other words, tanstaafl.

I liked it.

It gave me a nice easy way to handle routing and system configuration.

Reilley said:
Reviews seem to consist of those who think it very valuable and those who think it to be Of The Damned or something.

What does it do for you?

Thanks
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my IQ is 134 but I found it very confusing at first... and rather un-convenient later on.
 
It's a good system but laid out very poorly, once you get your head around it it's a very flexible, stable system
 
What job does it do? If there was not Patchmix, which other piece of hardware/software would do what Patchmix does? Do other interfaces have something similar? [I'm new at this......]
 
patchmix is the software mixer and router for all emu soundcards. AFAIK, if you have an EMU card thats what your going to be using
 
Mo-Kay said:
my IQ is 134 but I found it very confusing at first... and rather un-convenient later on.
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I just *knew* someone would come along and post inflated numbers for their IQ :D........
 
Patchmix is good, stable software. It's hard to figure out at first, and the routing can be complex, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to activate the onboard effects, but it works. There's probably better out there.

Isn't it an EMU proprietary thing? If you like the EMU cards (and I do, I wish they made a Firewire one) then it won't hold you back.

Oh and my IQ's probably in the 130's, but that's just capacity to learn and has nothing to do with actual knowledge :D
 
altitude909 said:
patchmix is the software mixer and router for all emu soundcards. AFAIK, if you have an EMU card thats what your going to be using
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And if you bought an Edirol or M-Audio interface of a similar type and price,
would they have software doing a similar function? Do all interfaces have mixer & router software?
 
And if you bought an Edirol or M-Audio interface of a similar type and price,
would they have software doing a similar function? Do all interfaces have mixer & router software?
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Yes

I cant really say for edirol but maudios mixer app is quite good. Nothing really fancy but it allows you to route any input to any output which is convenient. Patchmix is a whole level of complexity (and functionality)
 
However, in my opinion, the convertors on an Emu are much better than those in maudio and edirol products.
 
Well, thanks for these answers, they have been most helpful. I'm assembling my first DAW, and it looks like the 1212M wins the interface competition.
 
Reilley said:
And if you bought an Edirol or M-Audio interface of a similar type and price,
would they have software doing a similar function? Do all interfaces have mixer & router software?
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Some usb devices don't.
 
Grrr.... Patchmix... Freaken... Frackin.... Filth... Flam.... Flarn! :mad:
 
Reilley said:
Uh oh....... How proprietarty? How does it manifest it self? How does it restrict you?
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It won't restrict you, it's just that it works in the EMU way, which would be different from other systems. It has NOTHING to do with any interoperability of any kind.

It manifests itself in the fact that you have to learn how to operate it in the way it was designed, which would be different from other systems, that's all.

Relax, it really isn't as bad as some wusses here would have you believe. And the (very) short-term pain is well worth it for what it does.

This is all my opinion, of course, from working with an Emulator X Studio.
 
fraserhutch said:
There may be stuff with gentler learning curves, but I doubt there's better routing software.
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RME's TotalMix. Top that with WAY better hardware than the EMU stuff, and you've got a winning combo.

I've never had the joy of experiencing PatchMix, but have worked with RME stuff at a friends studio - that was a pleasurable experience.
 
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