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Cosmic Bandito · Post by **Cosmic Bandito** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:54 pm

dachilles wrote:My new Emu 1212 does the same thing after 20 minutes. Sound get distorted and garbled.. Bought at Christmas this year. If I shut the app down, in my case Reaper and then re start it clears up. For about 20 minutes

If it was a vid card I would suspect overclocking and a heat problem. I wonder if Creative slipped the Emu a design change or the new lead free is subject to overheating? Not my area of expertise.

That's the same problem. I see you have one of the newer ones as well. I just purchased mine from floridamusicco.com a few weeks ago. Have you tried raising your latency? I haven't had time to check that out yet.

The overheating thing sounds like a good possibility. I'm calling Emu tommorrow to see if I can get answers. I'm not keeping this card unless I can get it stable.

Thanks,

Rick

dachilles · Post by **dachilles** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:44 pm

You also could try asking on the Emu ( unofficial but strongly supported forum ) forum here. Emu staff makes frequent comments. Also the people there are more than happy to assist.

http://www.productionforums.com/index.p ... 5778b46b06

Cosmic Bandito · Post by **Cosmic Bandito** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:16 pm

I tried a few tweaks today and have had a lot of luck so far (fingers crossed). I brought the latency setting up to 8 (then back down to 7

). I think I also turned my video card acceleration down a few notchs and turned off windows power options (turning off monitor etc..). I'm not sure what did it yet, but probably the latency. I will say the Emu card is much more responsive for midi & audio even with a higher latency setting! Hope this holds up because this card sounds swwweeeet for $129 bux...

dachilles · Post by **dachilles** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:32 pm

That matches my feelings about the card. Great value and sound. I just keep plugging away at various areas, tweaking.

The manual is not very helpfull from the git-go. If patchmix is great it sure isnt easy to grasp. E-mu pretty well dropped the ball there imho.

genosmiles · Post by **genosmiles** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:51 am

The new v2 1212m is indeed much more sensitive to heat. I found this by searching "lead free circuit board soldering" on google. If you look closely at pics of v1 and v2 you'll see design changes also to accomodate lead free solder. Consistant quality (specs and reliability) are tougher to acheive. Also looking at the specs carefully, v1 outperforms v2 in several areas. Sorry for this news, but this is what i found in my research. Mainly make sure to keep the temperatures cool inside your pc.

Cosmic Bandito wrote:
dachilles wrote:My new Emu 1212 does the same thing after 20 minutes. Sound get distorted and garbled.. Bought at Christmas this year. If I shut the app down, in my case Reaper and then re start it clears up. For about 20 minutes

If it was a vid card I would suspect overclocking and a heat problem. I wonder if Creative slipped the Emu a design change or the new lead free is subject to overheating? Not my area of expertise.
That's the same problem. I see you have one of the newer ones as well. I just purchased mine from floridamusicco.com a few weeks ago. Have you tried raising your latency? I haven't had time to check that out yet.

The overheating thing sounds like a good possibility. I'm calling Emu tommorrow to see if I can get answers. I'm not keeping this card unless I can get it stable.

Thanks,

Rick

Just picked up an Emu 1212M - question