Emu 1212m Setup Issues

Question

Hello. I am having issues with my Emu 1212m. I have installed the soundcard and followed the instructions in the tutorial below. Yet when i play anything in my windows media player, I see that the audio is detected in the patchmix, but there is no audio coming out of my monitors. My monitors are coming out of the output, my input is from my keyboard, and i can't hear anything out of my monitors. My media settings all say that the EMU is being used and my Windows Media Player shows no "error" when i play something. Here's the Tutorial i followed:
"Plug your source (mic w/preamp etc) into the L analogue input of your card.
Load up PatchMix and click on the ‘New Session’ button. A dialogue box will appear.
Select the ‘44/48k’ tab and click on the ’44.1 Minimum -10’ icon. Make sure the ‘Edit Settings for New Session’ option is selected. Click OK. The ‘Session Settings’ dialogue should appear. For the purposes of this guide the default settings are fine so click on OK. If necessary you can change the sample rate from 44.1 to 48 on the ‘System’ tab, and change the Inputs/Outputs of your card to balanced (+4) or unbalanced (-10) on the ‘I/O’ tab. You can change these options at any time within PatchMix using the ‘Session Settings’ button so don’t worry too much.
You should now have two strips present. The ‘Waves L / R’ strip handles the WDM output we will be using. It also outputs the internal Windows sounds. You will also have an ‘ASIO OUT 1 / 2’ strip. We don’t need this so click on the strip and click the ‘Delete Strip’ button, then OK. The ‘Waves L / R’ strip has a peak meter in its top insert; these are useful in solving problems when you aren’t sure how far the audio is getting.
That’s our output, now we need an input. Click on the ‘Create Strip’ button, select the ‘Physical Source’ button and select ‘I/O Card In L’ option from the drop down list. Then click on OK.
An ‘I/O Card In L’ strip should now appear. Right-click in the top insert of this strip and from the menu that appears select ‘Insert Peak Meter’. If you use your mic/guitar etc you should see this meter moving and hear the noise amplified from your speakers. However this guide assumes you don’t want to hear this signal, you only want to hear the noise that is being outputted by your recording software so you can hear any processing it has added. So click the ‘Mute’ button on this strip. The peak meter will still register the sound, but it will not be outputted.
Now we need the signal to be recognised by the recording software. Right-click in the insert below the peak meter in your ‘I/O Card In L’ strip. From this menu select ‘Insert Send (Output to ASIO/WAVE or Physical Out)’. The ‘New Send Insert’ dialogue will appear. From the drop down menu select ‘Host Wave L / R’ and click on OK. You will now have ‘Send’ in the insert you clicked on. "
What do i have to do in order to get audio through my soundcard? Someone please help.

Answer 1

I just purchased an Emu 1212m and installed it last Monday. I was having a similar problem when I found your posting. With the help of a friend who is a net. admin. at the local University we were able to get the analog I/O working.
My OS is Windows XP Home Edition. To make the I/O work we eventually had to open the system device manager. To access go to it:
1. Open "Control Panel" from the Start Menu.
2. Open "System"
3. In the "System Properties" dialog click the "Hardware" tab and then click "Device Manager".
Open the "Sound, video and game controllers" folder. If you don't see the E-mu soundcard listed, select the top-level folder (i.e., it's pictured as a computer icon). Under the "Action" menu choose "Scan for hardware changes". This process should find your sound card. If not you may have to power down and unplug your computer and physically reinstall the cards.
Reopen the "Sound, video and game controllers" folder in the Device Manager and select the Emu sound card. Under the "Action" menu select "Update Driver...". This will bring up a dialog box that contains all the sound card drivers available from the System. Ignore these. Insert the CD Rom that contains the drivers and click the button that lets you upload them from the CD.
I hope that helps.
Yours,
Larry