I had the emu1212 and emulator x package for about 6 months. Sold it recently and got an RME 9632 cos I had enough of it. It probably has the worst drivers Ive ever had with a soundcard. Low asio latencies give awful fluctuations in host sequencer. Emu support ask you to disable inputs to improve stability. Random crashes, losing audio when using asio. And all topped off with some ugly as fuck GUIs and awful patch routings in the mixer.
I thought I would give them 6 months to see if they would fix the problems (as its actually a pretty good card) when the big 1.6 driver release was supposed to come out. Well, it came out and introduced even more bugs without fixing any of the others.
Youll find a lot of people with this card praising it, but they are probably using it with no inputs, no dsp cards, no external hardware and only one output to thier speakers. Anything more and it goes to shit (did for me and several other people I know with the card)
I would advise anyone looking at this card to search elsewhere if you have a big setup. RME, Echo and Maudio are very good alternatives.
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