All user reviews for the E-MU 0404

- 24-bit and up to 192kHz sampling rate! Knowing that work is already very good 24/48. S / N ratio excellent. Connectivity enough to the small home studio (2 inputs / 2 analog outputs, 2 digital inputs / outputs in RCA or optical, 1 input / 1 output noon). After all, she remains close to its characteristics of my Terratec Phase22. I changed because of the DSP and above the bundle software provided by E-Mu, I will return
- Usage: DTD for recording guitar, vocals, some synths VST
- My config info: Sempron 2500, 1GB ram, 2x40Go in Internet and a 250GB USB2 in
- My audio config: table behringer 1002; microphones Behringer Studio Project B1 + B5

UTILIZATION

- No problem, no conflict
- The manual is complete (and it remains essential reading for many take advantage of the beast, mainly management PatchMix)
- The configuration is not difficult as long as we take a little time to peel the instructions and understand how the PatchMix. Some notions advanced audio are also recommended (to know how a mixer)
That said, do not worry, a quick tutorial is provided for each sequencer (Cubase, Sonar, Ableton Live WaveLab), and factory presets allow you to quickly put Boulo

GETTING STARTED

At first the drivers do not ask me any concern and E-Mu appears to be updated regularly (unlike Terratec)
I use it mainly with Cubase SE and get the best latency with my Terratec! (7ms without stalling!)

OVERALL OPINION

This card is fantastic value! Only "black spot" Patch management is a complex mix that ... but complete! You can do everything and route the signals as you want like a real mixing desk! For example you can route the monitor to put a little reverb when recording voice (without saving the reverb of course) or better yet put a small compressor before entering Cubase history not to have too much overhead to recording. In short, the possibilities are enormous. PowerFX plug-in allows for him to use the hardware effects like any other VST standard without complicating their lives. Only restriction to enjoy the effects: having to work in 24bit/48kHz max but it's not bad!
Finally, a few weeks (or months?) It is delivered for the same price (99 €) with a software bundle dream
- Cakewalk SONAR LE
- Steinberg Cubase LE
- Ableton Live Lite 4
- Steinberg WaveLab Lite
- IK Multimedia AmpliTube LE
- SFX Machine LT
- E-MU Proteus X LE with over 1000 sounds included
Very nice initiative that makes available to all pro sequencers, albeit in "lite" version but more than adequate for amateur use (even confirmed). A nice snook at hacking (it was all for the same price!) And the policy of certain software licenses.

For my part, I bought the card because of the bundle: I was looking to acquire Amplitube Live / LE, which costs around € 100 and I fell for the card that offered me the same price in addition to everything else Amplitube!
Thank you E-MU

- To 192kHz, low latency, direct monitoring, the price!
- Recording a track by track home studio (style rock / metal)
- Athlon XP2000 + PC assembler, 768MB RAM, 40GB HD, on gigasys motherboard / chipset VIA KT400.
- Digital Battery (Jack), on guitar pod (jack) on bass preamp

I enjoyed having two independent outputs (one for speakers, a headphone amp for) and the DSP active at all frequencies (44/48kHz only) but hey at this price (95 €) ...

no sound as the 'PatchMix' is not launching (20MB RAM ... we recognize creative)

UTILIZATION

- Installation without any concern, after removing my other sound card.
- No conflict for now, she lives together with my carefree hercules fortissimo 3
- There are many configuration options and it is a bit complex because you have to juggle the concepts usually reserved for mixers, but you can save configurations to suit its own needs.
- Paper just enough to install, very detailed manual in PDF, I have not yet read!

GETTING STARTED

- Por drivers ok now
- Free updates with new features
- Cubase sx v2 walk nickel, just remember to give the latency with the load of plug ins and the number of track, if it cracks necessarily.
- Cubase measures:
- 1 audio track 96kHz: 3ms input / output 2ms
- 32 audio tracks + various plug ins 44kHz: 9ms / 7ms
- I record a stereo track by reading a 20taine of audio / midi

OVERALL OPINION

- 3 months
(+) Clarity of sound I / O, despite a low-end PC assembler I have no noise, the output power is very adequate on monitoring speakers
(-) A single analog output
- I tried the usb audiophile, much less stable, not latency direct monitoring
- Excellent value for money
- I do it again this election!

-entre/sortie jack + midi to posibility of direct effects
-Use to save power / sample with my em1 (live => impulse) / synth e-mu
-a8n-sli/3500 + / 120 1go/80 go
Em1 +-MIDI keyboard

UTILIZATION

-Explained preceded

GETTING STARTED

-The drivers for this sound card extremely unstable on my config (Athlon64 3500 + 1GB ram XP2Pro win)! I need to reinstall the card every 6 demmarage
Drivers often put a-days but no change on the stabilitbr />-The software's quite unfortunate that the majority either version, but for the price on the bundle and fairly complete
Latency-corect

OVERALL OPINION

His now-6 months I use this product corresponds very well with my expectations for a price pe is more cheap, quality price ratio apreciation (although the right bundle version is limited!), I not test the other stuff before so hard to make a difference, I doubt that I redo the same choice as it boring and need to reinstall all the drivers loaded all four windows

- What characteristics have motivated your choice?

Good reputation ... DSP board

- For what purpose?

Recording guitar, vocals, keyboards, bass etc ...

- What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard ,...)?

Home PC: asus, P43Ghz, 1280 Ram, 300 GB HDD etc..

- Which instruments and systems (console, preamp, DTD ...) you use it and how connections? ...

She goes in and out of a MG12 / 4 Yamaha

UTILIZATION

- The installation is done it without problems?

no

- Have you experienced any incompatibilities?

No

- The general configuration is easy?

The PatchMix is ​​taking the lead at the beginning and always a little ... Ultimately I have not really need!

- The manual is clear and sufficient? ...

Clear, but enough to print!

8 because not that easy to deal with! Also thank you to the forumers for knowledge sharing

GETTING STARTED

- The drivers are stable?

Home yes nickel

- Are they often updated?

Apparently yes

- What software do you use most often?

Cubase SX2 ... no problem

- What you get lag?

4 to 7 ms

- How many tracks you get to record / play time? ...

Dunno ... I do not care, I do one at a time!

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?

1 month

- What is so special that you like most and least?

For the DSP +

Patchmix for - (fairly complex and not well explained)

- Have you tried many other models before buying it?

Not

- How would you rate the quality / price?

My goodness, very good!

- With experience, you do again this choice? ...
Not ... I will go to top! But to start, that's great!

Update of 01/06/06: and that's what I said some weeks ago is true ... I loved this little card but it became too small for me especially in terms of input and output ... So I go over but I stand by my opinion A +

- What characteristics have motivated your choice?
Converters --- very good quality
--- Effects managed hardware
--- Software Bundle!
- For what purpose?
--- Check my guitar
--- Applying effects on the guitar
--- Mixing with MIDI tracks as with my Emu APS
- What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard ,...)?
--- 64-bit Sempron 2500 + MSI KN8MM CM + 512 mo + Emu APS + SBLive
- Which instruments or the systems do you use?
Casio Midi Keyboard --- Small
--- Electric guitar

Only downside for me is not the native support of SoundFonts, you have to use a free plugin (SFZ) and it is not managed matériellement.Pour are followers of sound may be needed to turn to Proteus comes with the card.

UTILIZATION

- The installation is done it without problems?
--- Just two CDs: one with drivers and other apps with
--- Super simple and trouble-free

- Have you experienced any incompatibilities?
--- No even with two sound cards already installed (+ SBLive Emu APS)

- The general configuration is easy?
--- Without reading the manual and without knowledge of a mixer is super complex. Patch mix seems super complicated at first.

- The manual is clear and sufficient?
--- Yes it is quite clear, but also sufficient essential!. After reading the manual config is very simple and you realize the possibilities of the card.

GETTING STARTED

- The drivers are stable?
--- No crash so far: Very stable
- Are they often updated?
--- A priori yes
- What software do you use most often?
--- Cubase LE (bundled with the card and very adequate for amateurs like me)
--- THE Proteux X (comes with map)
--- SFZ sound font to read
- What you get lag?
--- It's going to 7 ms ASIO

The big plus of the map: the bundled software!

OVERALL OPINION

This is clearly not a multimedia card for users (too complicated for that), but more for people wishing to learn at home studio.

I love this card for the following reasons:
Effects-friendly materials
-Very stable
Low-latency
Super-converters
Possibilities of large-patch mix (the mixer of the card)
-The software bundle which contains everything you need to use the card.

Small least:
-No sound management of native fonts
-No of entries / outputs for the pros
No management-Mac, I had to buy a dedicated PC!

- How would you rate the quality / price?
--- Excellent for a very good card and the bundled software (I know I said 20 times ...)

- With experience, you do again this choice?
--- Yes, yes, and yes, for a beginner like me in computer music is the ideal card

- What technical specifications motivated your choice?
card simple and efficient with the internal DSP and a fantastic bundle for proof, I gave up Cubase (which is a source of problem) and replace it with the fantastic Sonar LE, even in light version, this app is a marvel of efficiency that has never planted in two months of use!

- For what purpose?
demo home

- What is your config (motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard ,...)?
P4 2.8G, Win XP, 1 G RAM, 2 hard disk

- Which instruments do you use or the Systmes? ...
Ibanez Prestige 750 SERIES S, amp VOX Valvetronix AD120

for 150, this purchase is unbeatable, the bomb!!

UTILIZATION

Easy installation, no problem, I downloaded the latest drivers and everything is OK, hold said, it worked perfectly before the update of drivers.

GETTING STARTED

Perfect stability, I use Sonar LE now and Battery 2
latency 7ms
I recorded both track 2 and I read a dozen

OVERALL OPINION

I useful for 2 months and j'apprcie all in this product, even the PatchMix is ​​a bit confusing at the beginning ... Great for the price, and yes I would do without this choice hsiter!

Drle a choice to make models in its decision (voice - guitar and bass) + a battery from a soft wav.

UTILIZATION

Installation without any problem - in fact the problem is APRS they arrive. First you must know that the pack includes: a PCI card - the drivers for the PatchMix DSP and a suite of software ... of ... m. ... e, of poor quality. Gnrale configuration is relatively simple. you just need to understand how the GRE which is ASIO what in the chain. I have a lot in Ralite galr. The manual is trs commplet - well if you know what you're looking!

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are stable but the apps ... pffff CUBASE VST 4.0 is a stew of braised chaez. First, it all goes gnre crunch, the tempo of acclaration will know why, saturations do you want to sail. Simply go out and go again and everything will be fine ... last for ten minutes! Steinberg amme Intgr a simulation of false contact for opening a voice recording. Change squenceur!! I rsolu this problem by doing an update of pathcmix ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 months and I never do it again this election! I almost prfere my old TASCAM K7 - he at least is silent simple and effective. Sincrement same model to make it unhappy. I'll try to change the software. Depending on the rsultat ...

Just to tell the band finished morons that are part of this generation of sat, who can not read a manual or use a professional audio sound card (yet very easy to use), who have no intuition and coming pourrire criticism of this card is currently the best quality / price (personally I recorded my first song at the end of half an hour) ... do not we have rocked a little too close to the Wall ...?

192Khz 24-bit sound card for under 100 euros
bought 8 months ago and not had a single problem ....
small cons that I have read make me rage! it's not the card that does not mess, c is your lean neurons foirent!

UTILIZATION

No prob, the simplest way .... and not c is not Santa Claus who will come to ask you about your motherboard .... sorry for those who had ... then I break their dream.
the manual is very comprehensive and responds to all the questions that may arise at the beginning.
configuration very easy for someone smart (except for a 6-year course)

GETTING STARTED

No worries drivers
nickel with cubase
latency of 5ms and can still do better

OVERALL OPINION

Use for 8 months
j fond of all the possibilities offered by this card ... we find that the equivalent from 200 euros (at least).
I would buy the closed eyes

E-Mu quality converters with pros for less than the dreadful Multimedia cards (I had a bunch of soundblaster so I know what I mean).
config: P4 2.4 Ghz + 1 + 2 MB HDD 80 MB minimum install XP to not load the bike unnecessary service (network support, antivirus ...). Besides those ranting on this map (like on the other cards pros) should have a look at the many specialized forums and site (eg audiofanzine.com!). There are lots of tricks to optimize your PC for computer music. in my case, I have a dual boot: XP as a light as possible to make only the music, and another to mumuse. Verdict: there is no picture! by putting hands dirty you get a get a bike that runs like a Swiss watch: latency ridiculous, no cracking, no crash, disk access fluid (the OS on a disk, the DATA on another).
Usage:
SONAR sequence + + few soft synths hard driving synth (Korg 05RW/Kurzweil K2500).

UTILIZATION

Installation ok.
It's all about organization. Many rush headlong.
I'm going doccumenter sites and forums, I catch the maximum information (in particular thanks to those who have had a problem - hehe!). AND I'll get the latest drivers.
Then I install. Initial loss of time saves time permanent.
It's true that the PatchMix is ​​a particular concept, but the developers had a sense close enough to the hard and finally got used to it quickly. I am not a sound engineer and I created my first slice after a half hour and everything worked (the sound going in and out or I had told him).

GETTING STARTED

No problem on this

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for almost a year and it suits me perfectly. With a little more money I should have taken the 1820M.

Card cheap, it's a cousin to me as new thread because I am not in France in Morocco and I am not worth even thinking about stuff found here ... mao
so I accept even if c not what I wanted.
I made the mao over 2 years now and c is the thing I currently
2.4 ghz intel proc, 512 ram, 2 80G hard drive (7200rpm) / 160G (7200rpm) backups.
I use a midi keyboard M-Audio Keystation 49e for samples of my compos

UTILIZATION

I had to install twice to the third I could get a response at the end

GETTING STARTED

The driver changed regularly it stabilizes at times obtained on the latency of 5ms with Reason is sometimes a lil crack unimportant, but one patch probs c mix as an interface for routing a line and can complxe have already in grill because I do not know if c Spurious manip. present or the presets are made for this.

OVERALL OPINION

In all no need to wonder if I will repeat that choice or not because it will be a no no no

I bought the 404 emu for the price it was that or nothing.
Moreover, it was perfect for my personal use:
Record track by track to see record two instruments simultaneously

I use it to record the bass / guitar / mic / synth / groovebox

I have an xp pc with a Serial ATA hard drive.

UTILIZATION

I had no problem installing on my part on two different computers.
Only the default vst Warp had a tendency to crash half the time to start but since I reinstall windows I have no problems.

Configuration is quite PatchMix cotton, I have spent a whole afternoon to capture how to record anything, but hey I'm not very smart and I bought it as it exits the coup there was not all the support that the forum brings Audiofanzine.

Now the PatchMix no secrets for me, I am also extremely useful.
I love being able to record what comes out on slaps, to record MIDI tracks to wav it saves valuable time.

GETTING STARTED

No problem with drivers, they have been updated regularly (currently not too good but everything was already done to improve the capabilities of this sound card I think)

I use Adobe Audition, Reason, Fruity Loops with.

I arrive at a latency of 5ms no problem but I use it to 10ms is enough even for the effects on the guitar.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 years and she rendered great services.

Positive, it does very well even without preamp, plugging a microphone directly and by boosting the sound we get a very acceptable result.
I have no noise-recording my bass (musicman stingray us too) directly into the sound card.

Only thing that disappoints me is the wiring that is not very ergonomic, but good for the price .... ultimately more quickly we forget this.

With the experience I was bought direct! I am fully satisfied with the sound card.
I do not understand people who were disgusted by the sound card, I never had any problems with really important too.

After I've never had the opportunity to test other computer music dedicated sound cards so ...

I was looking for a card that can do recording guitar, but also voice and bass.
I use it with ACID Pro 6 compatibility impeccable.
my pc is a p4 1.8 Ghz, 1GB of memory ...

UTILIZATION

The installation is simple: PatchMix is ​​a no name crap but it works.
general configuration is simple, according to what seeing and the manual is simple patterns.

GETTING STARTED

I always use ACID Pro 6 is an exellent jRecording sequencer with which everything and very good quality (in contrast to previous opinions, you just know how to use)
the drivers are stable

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a year and a half, I love the sound quality, I like less PatchMix apara is inseparable from the card value for money is allucinant, there is nowhere else. Even with the experience, I would do this choice with his eyes closed.

Hello,

I have this card for a year and I find it good. No problem EXCEPT PatchMix a little difficult to understand at first but with reading the manual and a bit of practice no problem. Why EMU wanted to recreate the ambience of a table of hardware mix on a map rather eco? go figure ...

Use recording guitar, vocals, piano, bass but now dual-use (alesis firewire 16)

UTILIZATION

Installation ok
no inconsistency
General config hard for those who do not know the "routing"
but the above manual very clear

GETTING STARTED

Drivers very stable
I was not for vrifier Updated
5ms latency!

OVERALL OPINION

+ Sound, price,
- Not practical dangling cables (like Delta). The PatchMix <-

good value for money, but with the experience ... I prefer a firewire card for 100 euros more ...
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- What technical specifications motivated your choice?
My micro involved a chipset AC97 sound with just good sounds Systm windows.

- For what purpose?
computer music and games

- What is your config (motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard ,...)?
ATHLON 64, Windows XP Home, 1GB RAM, 250 GB HDD

- Which instruments do you use or the Systmes? ...
YAMAHA PSR350 keyboard

UTILIZATION

- Installation is it without problem?
No.

- Have you encountered incompatibilities
Yes, with music recording software to: KRISTAL, AUDACITY, POWER MP3 RECORDER

- The configuration gnrale is easy?
No, it's really complex trs. The first one is PatchMix unnecessarily complicated: why make the user which can be DTECT a program? I regret having to go through a manual configuration of PatchMix to record an instrument, it is not acceptable.

- The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
The manual is far too complicated.

GETTING STARTED

- The drivers are stable?
Few notches with blue Proteus X

- Are they often put day?
Too often has shown that EMU does not matrise this product

- What software do you use most often?
Audacity

- What you get lag?
Excellent

- How many tracks you get record / playback simultanment? ...
Read at least one
Save: None

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?
two days

- What is the particular feature you like best and least?
most: difficult to say
the least: after 2 days I have not only Russia recorded its ...

- Have you tried many other models before acqurir?
I know an Audigy and SB Live 24 bit external. Much more convenient than emu 0404.

- How do you report qualitprix?
Trs bad, both because the complexity that I am not able to use it for recording, and in terms of sound it is not so good as that ...

- With the exprience, you do again this choice? ...
Certainly not, this card is really avoid. I'm totally screwed.

edit: 13 months APRS, I always regret that choice. Map avoid, DEFINITIONS.

Value for money

Pc dual core 3.4 GHz 1 GB of memory dedicated solely to music

Arturia Moog Modular with the FM and 7 of native Cubase LE comes with the card

UTILIZATION

Installation delicate hours of research on forums only to find that I was not the only one with a gallery with this product.

The manual is very comprehensive, an encyclopedia: you get lost!

GETTING STARTED

Drivers unstable: as soon as you install new software, the PatchMix plant, we do not know why

latency very good indeed, but after several months of testing various galleys and

significant number of tracks

OVERALL OPINION

After a year of use, it happened again to set:
Rage, I disassembled and restored to its board: I can not even give it to a friend, I'm afraid to get angry with him

General Notice: it is a cheap product, I now know why.
Ideal for lovers of research in the forums: I was looking for a sound card, not a participation in "Wanted!"
I have put in place my old audigy: balance, latency, etc. are also sounds good, it works the first time and is super stable.

I can not redeem more than many professional creative products of course ...