0404 USB and Windows 7

Hi, I'm having the same problem as many others with the EMU 0404 USB, with the sound becoming very distorted (like its being played at a very low bit rate) after a few minutes of use in Windows 7. I have now had to disable the card and use the motherboard sound instead. This $200 box is completely unusable.
If I reset the sample rate in the Audio Control Panel to something else and then back again, it fixes the problem for a couple of minutes, but the horrible distortion always comes back.
I'd like to know if this problem is being worked on or not, otherwise I am going to return this thing and get something else.

abortnow wrote:
Hi, I'm having the same problem as many others with the EMU 0404 USB, with the sound becoming very distorted (like its being played at a very low bit rate) after a few minutes of use in Windows 7. I have now had to disable the card and use the motherboard sound instead. This $200 box is completely unusable.
If I reset the sample rate in the Audio Control Panel to something else and then back again, it fixes the problem for a couple of minutes, but the horrible distortion always comes back.
I'd like to know if this problem is being worked on or not, otherwise I am going to return this thing and get something else.
You didn't mention in which type PC/laptop are you using your audio interface (couple years old ... brand new).
BTW, I had this type issue with my old P4/2.66GHz PC after installing W7, because of, I had that new visual feature turned on. By turning it off and setting the system for performance helped a bit but, as the GPU wasn't very good at all (scored 1.0 in W7 test), issue rised it's head when doin' other tasks while playback.
Now with then new PC this isn't an issue anymore.
0404 USB is also very sensible for high priority processes running in background and also it doesn't like WiFi at all.
You could check your system capability for to stream audio/video. There's an utility called DPC Latency Checker which may be helpful in this task.
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
jutapa

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