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In Reply to: no more USB interfaces like this posted by Adriel on January 3, 2007 at 21:11:17:
On paper, it seems to have everything you want. I was told (but have not confirmed) it is able to passthrough SPDIF in when not connected to PC. I won't be interested in the SPDIF interface at all, I'm more interested in it for high quality ADC and DAC (it features the new wonder DAC that everyone has been raving about).I'm planning to buy this, but was waiting for it to be discounted, and also waiting for Vista compatibility to be confirmed.
- http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?category=610&subcategory=611&product=15185 (Open in New Window)
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To be fair to EMU, they do actualy state in the documentation that spdif isn't supported by native Windows api.
Tested in Sound on Sound latest issue.Good review but wrong about 192k capability. Will process digital sugnals to 96k only.Would like to know if the software still wants to take over your PC! Supposed to have been simplified.
You're right. I had skipped over the EMU products because I had a Creative bias against them. But I think this 0404 USB will do nicely. Thank you
0404USB only ouputs to spdif via ASIO - no good for movies, TV etc.
that's interesting since there is no native asio driver from emu for 0404usb. it only recommends the use of asio4all. how does 0404 know the source of the signal?
EMU reccomend ASIO4ALL for Foobar, but for Cubase etc., the ASIO driver comes with the application.For ASIO it's not so much the sound module knowing where the signal comes from, more the ASIO i/f knowing where to target.
may be i'm a bit thick. i still don't get it. if emu does not provide any asio driver, every other piece of software has to treat 0404usb like a usb sound device. are you saying emu provide asio driver for cubase or cubase itself has a asio driver for 0404usb? either case i still don't see how it is possible. anyway thanks.
[quote="void"]I've connected a high-end DAC to the SPDIF Coaxial output, but I can't get it to work. The DAC accepts 16bit-44.1/48kHz.
I've tried Foobar, VLC, Windows Media Player 10, there's music on the headphone output of the 0404, but no sound via the DAC.
I tried all settings in the 0404USB Control Panel, as well as settings in the players which could affect SPDIF, no succes yet...I simply want the sound on the PC on the SPDIF output, is this possible?
I've read this note: "S/PDIF on the 0404 USB 2.0 is only accessible via a multichannel application such as Cubase LE or Sonar LE. S/PDIF will not appear in the Windows Sounds and Audio Devices Control Panel."
Well I installed Cubase LE and Sonar LE, I tried some things, but I don't think these programs will help me to get the S/PDIF to work with audio or videoplayers? But what does?
***To accomodate the Windows MME system(which is stereo centric), and to do AC3/DTS passthru we could not get SPDIF support into MME(which is basically the most consumer level Windows audio driver system) You can though access the SPDIF via applications that support Windows Direct Sound/Kernal Streaming[KS], ASIO and AC3/DTS. Try looking for Media players that support or have plug ins for the above types of Windows Driver interfaces and it should work.Best,
ICHi
E-MU SystemsFor foobar2000, you need foo_out_asio.dll, which can be downloaded from their site: http://www.foobar2000.org/components/foo_out_asio.zip
For Winamp, you need out_asio(dll).dll which can be downloaded from: http://otachan.com
Should never use MME for SPDIF anyway, because MME goes through kmixer, which then mangles the bits.A far more disturbing limitation is that apparently if an application opens the soundcard in ASIO, then WDM/MME/DirectSound is disabled. In other words, ASIO locks the driver into exclusive mode.
Some people are pretty annoyed at this. E-MU is aware but so far have not promised a fix.
Doesn't worry me, as I will be using the device exclusively in ASIO mode.
that makes sense. that means foobar works as well as any software that can go through the kernel streaming.
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