Product: E-MU 1820m
Price Paid: US $500
Submitted
02/10/2005
at
01:40am
by
John Wilson
Ease of Use
:
1
How can tell ease of use. It never does the same thing twice. You turn the computer on, go to your sequencer and maybe it will work maybe it will not.
Features
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2
It is supposed to have a lot of "feature". Does it? I don't know, what works what relly is not even their. I know the VST plug-ins do not work, thats a given. The WDM drivers give you a maximum of 2 ins/2 outs, thats for sure. It is not stable above 48 /24 I know that. To try and record at the advertised 192 is a joke.
Expressiveness/Sounds
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1
You can not get the latency down low enough to use it with a good sampler, who knows how it sounds. True it has the same AD/DA converters as the Digidesighn, but they don't mention that those converters are considered a joke by proffessionals
Reliability
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2
It's like I said sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. Would you call that reliable?
Customer Support
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1
Well for starters this is not a real EMU product. It is a Creative product, you know the same friendly,quilified support guys that helped you with your noiseblaster and audiology. By the way that is how your computer see's this card as a Audiology and it comes with all those neat little memory pigs like CTHelper and such. They say CTHelper is usefull, yeah at telling Creative everything they would ever want to know about your machine. There drivers are the worst I have ever seen. And they call you a lier and act like your crazy and your computer is a peice of junk if you try to point out the short comings of their hardware and driversw.
Overall Rating
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1
I would not wish one of these on my worst enemy. Stay away from this product till they fix the drivers, if they ever do. It is the biggest rip off and waste of money I've seen in 30 years of playing and recording.
