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Emu 0404 24/96 Digital Audio PCI Card

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Overall User Ratings

Overall:: 8 out of 10
Quality:: 6.5 out of 10
The Wow Factor:: 5.6 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 3 out of 10

Features:: 7.7 out of 10
Value:: 8.1 out of 10
Sound:: 8.1 out of 10
Manufacturer Support:: 6 out of 10

User Reviews for Emu 0404 24/96 Digital Audio PCI Card

Overall:: 3 out of 10
Features:: 8 out of 10
Quality:: 5 out of 10
Value:: 6 out of 10
The Wow Factor:: 3 out of 10
Sound:: 7 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 3 out of 10
Manufacturer Support:: 3 out of 10

100% of users found this reviews helpful (3 votes).

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By a customer from hotmail.com

Submitted: 7/3/2006

Style of Music: all over the place!

Experience: Hobbyist musician/guitarist/recording artist

"Not the best!!"

Sound:

My Darla 20 bit card sounded better than this one. All attempts at tweaking the 0404 failed to equal the Darla. Pretty close, but still a little noisy compared. Still the 0404 does have good sound quality, but you have to spend time to get it right. I use it with Sonar, VST effects, and external mixer.

Feature:

For the money, good features, but you have to spend a ton of time to learn how to use the thing at an acceptable level of audio quality. I still couldn't get the thing to work perfectly on its own. Only once I installed ASIO4All driver, did it work reliably without crashing quite so often with Sonar.

Ease of Use:

Interface is not easy to use, and takes a lot of time to learn it properly. Difficult to get it to work reliably with Sonar. Had to install ASIO4All driver to prevent regular crashing, and to get decent latency with no crackles.

Quality:

Quality is fine, but the included software is not reliable on its own. It didn't come with a stand-alone audio driver, so you have to keep the Patchmix software always running. Had to install ASIO4All driver to prevent regular crashing, and to get decent latency with no crackles.

Manufacturer Support:

When I initially bought the 0404, I tried to get detailed specs on the thing, and the tech manager was a real ahole, and just kept giving me the run around, and didn't want to answer all my questions, saying something like 'the 0404 is a low-end card, and we've already given you more support on this thing than we had to. If you bought a more expensive card like the 1616 then you'd get better support...'

Value:

Good value, but they really need to create a reliable driver for this thing. If they had that, it would be a great product.

The Wow Factor:

Good features, but driver not reliable, so it doesn't work well on its own - must install ASIO4All to get it to work properly (but I'm sure this introduces more latency than it should).

Overall:

I would get something reliable next time, however it did come with a good software bundle, the Production Tools bundle, with Proteus X (1000 sounds), Sonar LE, etc, so it's not a total loss, and it does work fine with ASIO4All.

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 9 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
The Wow Factor:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Manufacturer Support:: 10 out of 10

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By a customer from AnarchyZERO.com

Submitted: 10/2/2004

Style of Music: Alternative Rock, Metal, and Heavy Punk.

Experience: Active Musician and Recording Engineer

"Top Knotch, easy to use, beautiful product."

This reviewer purchased this item from Same Day Music.

Sound:

The shound quality of this product is top notch 'Created' hardware, not only does it throw out better quality sound than my personal sound card, but the hardware generated guitar fects are amazing.

Feature:

The software features were good.

Quality:

Best quality I've heard or seen.

Manufacturer Support:

They have an 800 number for support and good calling hours, no complaints here.

Value:

Let's see, a $100 dollar PC amp with 500 pre-set effects + custom effects, or a $500 dollar amp with 5 effects? I'll stick with my E-MU.

The Wow Factor:

Knowing what it does, its appeal is extremely high, it IS beautiful, isn't it?

Overall:

This is going to last me forever, great product, great quality, great sound, and unless I upgrade to the 1820m, theres nothing else on teh market I would trade it for. Top Knotch. And easy to use. Only proplem was my same day delivery I bought on Thursday (I admit, after 2pm) It came in on Monday... Not same day Friday. But not E-MU's fault.