E-mu 1212m was magic. Even back in the day the software tools were fairly painful to use, powerful as they were. Yeah, I mean PatchMix and Emulator X3.

But man, the card is rock solid. Low latency and crystal clear sound quality. Shame that the Creative-ization of E-mu is complete and no further audio chips are forthcoming from them. I'll never forgive Creative for what they did to Soundblaster Live... had a fantastic E-mu chip inside it and they completely watered it down with their software. Needed to install 3rd party drivers to make it go properly for sequencer use and it was still locked into 48K sample rate.

 

Exactly. They'd better finally fix their Bluetooth stack.
What just works out of the box on MacOS has been a nightmare to get stable and reliable on Windows for me.

 

Wait, are we really talking 'asio' - asio?
I mean am I gonna fire up any DAW from 2008 and have it output natively in low latency to the on board sound? Or is ist just wasapi 2.0?
Be cause if it's the latter let's see how sound folks are gonna adopt it.
Anyony bought a game on the Microsoft store lately? That disruptive steam killer?

//edit// oh wow. It's really og asio. Thought it's gonna be some ms crap 'like asio' That's cool. Let's see when it's there.

 

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