E-Mu Patchmix Software

E-Mu demonstrates its Patchmix software, which comes with all the E-Mu hardware for PCs and laptops. Patchmix is the way users access hardware accelerated effects associated with E-Mu products. You can route audio in and out of your DAW, MIDI sequencer, and more, letting you run up to 16 simultaneous effects.

When you don't feel like fiddling with too many settings, you can play with the hundreds of preset effects; just click on the palette and start stacking up the sounds! Check out this nicely detailed demo of Patchmix in our exclusive Gearwire vid. Since this was produced, E-Mu has announced a major update to the Patchmix software, have a look at the E-Mu site to get the full details.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• music

[moo5255]

i recently bought the E-MU 1212M with all the software etc, sonar , cubase le etc.

i've struggled to get a signal into Sonar and Cubase and when i finaly did, the sonar plays back like distortion and the cubase has no sound at all when it plays back. any ideas anyone.??? much grateful.

[D84D]

my 12 12 is flawless for 5 yrs. it has run on xp vista and now 7. the only time i have clicks is if i have a daw up and i have internet up while 'mouse-ing' around. but that's just asking my basic dual core to do too much. however it can still record audio off of internet with no glitch. wow if i had anything better i wouldn't know. i love it.

[goodchappy]

@rainbowsalads Cheers. I tried Reaktor 5 from Native instruments and it was ok at first but when I wasn't playing anything I still got the occasional click.

The click is like an old vinyl record, it is very random, sometimes in the left channel, sometimes in the right, sometimes in both at the same time. I have turned off services like ethernet, firewire, indexing and windows 7 visualisation so it looks like Windows 2000. I even removed the video card but the clicks were still there.

[rainbowsalads]

try another sequencer like 'reaper.' free demo download . see if it clicks happen on that software. if you use a digital amp. be sure the sample frequency you are using is compatibile. ( use 44.1 kh. if unsure) be sure emu is set to 'internal and the amplifier slaves to that.

> listen to the EMU headphone out, is it clicking on the headphone when emu is set to sync 'internal' in patchmix???

[rainbowsalads]

@goodchappy you say the emu outputs. Is this on the analog and the digital and the headphone out? what sample frequency are you using ? and do you hear clicks on windows media player, as well as audio sequencer software?

u didnt answer the first questions,so its hard to continue. have you tried the emu on another computer? that would give us a good idea what is at fault. be it your OS , computer bios , or the emu itself. always install the Emu driver first then the patch mix software 2nd

[goodchappy]

@rainbowsalads Hi thanks for your comment. I've been using the EMU 1616m a lot for 8 months. The audio clicks are worse in the first few minutes of boot up, then I may get occasional clicks. Sometimes I get more to the point it is annoying. However the application I am using called "Hauptwerk" has its own internal recorder and the clicks are NEVER recorded, it is only when listening from the 1616M's outputs. I have no other machine to try, I have the latest BIOS and drivers etc. please help! :-)

[rainbowsalads]

@goodchappy i re-read your post , that bypass thing is strange. still, definitely try another machine, just to see if it goes away. conflicts are so bizzare at times and hard to trace.

[rainbowsalads]

@goodchappy does it work on another motherboard? can you try it on a friends PC? if not, have you done a clean install of windows 7 on your machine? if you have it, try XP to see if your windows 7 is conflicting with hardware.

if these fail your 1616 is unwell. i would definitely try another pc or clean install of OS.

[goodchappy]

@goodchappy Nice to see that in 5 months, nobody has any answers to my problem.

I discovered recently that I can reduce my audio glitch considerably by adding an effect such as reverb, then bypassing the effect.....so I know the problem is actually DSP Patchmix not drivers or some conflict with other hardware or software. EMU and Creative's technical support is dire !!!

[goodchappy]

I have an E-MU 1616m which is dogged with audio glitches. E-MU technical support cannot help...how do I get the thing to work correctly with Windows 7? I have had the 1616m for nearly 2 years and it is unusable.