E-MU 0404 USB

[merlot]

I am trying to use Audacity 1.2.6 with my E-MU 0404 USB. The internal sound card is disabled. The E-MU works fine with Acoustica Premium 4. The Audacity inputouput is set to the E-MU. The sampling rate is the same. I get the following error "Error when opening the sound device. Please check input device settings and the project sample rate."

Any help would be appreciated. I'm using windows 7.

Thanks.

[steve]

On Windows 7 you need to use Audacity 1.3.12
http://audacityteam.org/download/

[merlot]

Just installed the new version (1.3.12). I still get the same error... Any other ideas?

Appreciate any help...

Thanks...

[kozikowski]

A good ground zero is to set everything -- Audacity Preferences and the device -- to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. Restart Audacity. See if that doesn't help.

Koz

[steve]

I am trying to use Audacity 1.2.6 with my E-MU 0404 USB.

Does Windows Media player work with the E-MU?
Does "Sound Recorder" work with it?

[merlot]

Just tried at 44.1k. It works. But not 96k or 192k...

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[steve]

It appears that the Windows drivers only support 44100 Hz.
It is unfortunately not uncommon that full functionality is only available using ASIO drivers (which are not supported in the standard version of Audacity) and that the normal Windows (WDM) drivers (which Audacity uses) only provide basic functionality.

In the ReadMe file for the EMU 040 USB it says:

ASIO MULTIMEDIA AT 96 KHZ AND 192 KHZ
When operating at 96 kHz and 192 kHz, we recommend you DO NOT USE WDM drivers only use the E-MU
ASIO driver in ASIO compliant programs.

http://www.emu.com/support/files/downlo ... Platform=1

[merlot]

Stevethefiddle,

Thank-you for your help.... I have the E-MU ASIO drivers. But am not sure how to get them to work with Audacity. Any help in that regard would be most appreciated....


Thanks....

[kozikowski]

<<<am not sure how to get them to work with Audacity.>>>

You have to compile Audacity -- build the program -- from the original written programming language -- the source code -- and include ASIO modules.

http://audacityteam.org/download/source

=======================================
-- Dependencies
The wxWidgets library is required. Audacity 1.2 needs
wxGTK 2.4, compiled without the unicode options.
The next Stable version of Audacity will support
newer wxWidgets and GTK libraries.
-- Installation of the following libraries is optional - they
are included in Audacity obtained from SVN.
* libmad
* libsndfile
* Ogg Vorbis
===========================================

Probably not for the casual user. The problem is that, although ASIO material is free, it's only free for one (1) user. Once you produce Audacity with ASIO support, it can only be used by you.

Koz

[steve]

Once you produce Audacity with ASIO support, it can only be used by you.

The term is "non distributable", which I would take to mean that you may not give it to anyone else.