Subject:Audio Driver issues with AP5

Posted by: mortalengines

Date:2/26/2005 4:10:29 PM

My soundcard (EMU 1820 M)uses ASIO drivers when recording, etc. When I changed from Microsoft Sound Mapper to EMU ASIO, Acid woked fine & actually sounded better. When I turned off the computer & later went back to work on my Acid project, my project made no sound when I pushed the play button. I brought up my preferences window re-selected Sound Mapper & then it worked fine. I then re-re selected EMU ASIO drivers & now it works fine again. Any idea what's going on here? I have an AMD XP 1600 cpu, KT3 ultra mother board, Windows XP PRO & 512 MB of Ram,if it helps.

Subject:RE: Audio Driver issues with AP5

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:2/28/2005 11:32:05 AM

Could be the E-MU's drivers. I don't have such problems with my card's ASIO drivers. (An Echo MiaMIDI.)

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Subject:RE: Audio Driver issues with AP5

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:2/28/2005 11:56:10 AM

I would also be suspicious of the drivers. EMU is owned by Creative which writes some of the worst drivers I have ever experienced. My Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum card would constantly complain that the “Creative ASIO configuration has changed” and resort back to the Microsoft Sound Mapper. Almost every time I launched ACID I would have to reselect the Creative ASIO drivers. This sounds very similar to your problems. I finally fixed it permanently. I got an M-Audio Firewire 410 and ditched the Audigy 2. I haven’t had any problems since.

I mean this with all sincerity. Some companies just can’t write drivers to save their lives. Pinnacle Systems was like this. Their hardware drivers kept messing up my PC something terrible. I finally ditched their hardware too. Having the best hardware in the world doesn’t matter if your programmers can’t write stable drivers for it. I would check the EMU web site for updated drivers and if they the have forums, ask over there if anyone else is having this problem with this card.

~jr

Subject:RE: Audio Driver issues with AP5

Reply by: mortalengines

Date:2/28/2005 5:16:19 PM

Yeah, that sounds like the answer. I haven't had any real issues & I can survive with sound mapper & just make the change when I record, etc. The drivers are specifically EMU-ASIO.

Subject:RE: Audio Driver issues with AP5

Reply by: B.C.

Date:3/4/2005 3:52:00 PM

I'm having the exact same problem with my 1820M.

There are some other weird driver interactions with ACID as well (that I've mentioned in this forum). I believe SONY has an 1820-variant to test with.

I guess I'll change over to sound-mapper mode in the mean-time.

Subject:RE: Audio Driver issues with AP5

Reply by: pwppch

Date:3/4/2005 6:26:20 PM

We have determined the cause of the problems with the EMU drivers - it is not particular to the 1820m, but all EMU drivers that use the PatchMix DSP.

Unfortunately, there is no reasonable work around due to how the drivers interact. They are completely unique in how they work with ASIO, and we do not currently support this behavior.

The EMU drivers are not doing anything wrong technically. They are just doing it in a unique way that no other audio hardware drivers do. This is the first time we have seen this behavior from an ASIO driver set.

We are working on a solution. It will not be part of the first ACID update which is coming soon. I don't know when an update for ACID that has complete support for the EMU hardware and drivers will be released.

Peter