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In Reply to: Re: Have you checked out the E-MU 0404USB? posted by Adriel on January 5, 2007 at 00:01:38:

0404USB only ouputs to spdif via ASIO - no good for movies, TV etc.

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Re: Have you checked out the E-MU 0404USB? - drwkng 03:22:20 01/05/07 (5)
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?
- Re: Have you checked out the E-MU 0404USB? - KeithC 05:12:31 01/05/07 (4)
  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.
  - Re: Have you checked out the E-MU 0404USB? - drwkng 09:03:26 01/05/07 (3)
    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.
    - Re: Have you checked out the E-MU 0404USB? - KeithC 09:32:30 01/05/07 (2)
      [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 Systems
      For 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
      For VLC I couldn't find a solution yet.
      - This makes a lot of sense, and isn't much of a limitation - Christine Tham 13:01:08 01/05/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Re: Have you checked out the E-MU 0404USB? posted by KeithC on January 5, 2007 at 09:32:30:
        
        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.
      - Re: Have you checked out the E-MU 0404USB? - drwkng 10:02:58 01/05/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Re: Have you checked out the E-MU 0404USB? posted by KeithC on January 5, 2007 at 09:32:30:
        
        that makes sense. that means foobar works as well as any software that can go through the kernel streaming.

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