emu 1212m or f7 semitone #

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:16:27PM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
>   
>> I don't even know what list to post this to. My new emu 1212M PCI 
>> soundcard is playing music a semitone higher than it should. THis is not 
>> a new problem - it's been that way since I installed the soundcard 
>> (which was only a couple of weeks ago). I just gave a bass guitar lesson 
>> and had my student put a capo on the first fret to play along with 
>> "Dazed and Confused". And it's not just youtube - my CDs play a semitone 
>> higher. Audacity plays a semitone higher. So, it must be the soundcard 
>> or my system (fedora 7). I'll dust off my little PC speakers and try the 
>> onboard soundcard (not the emu 1212M) to see (hear) if it's the OS 
>> that's overclocking (not knowing a proper term) the sound. I just 
>> thought I'd post this first in case anyone knows a quick fix.
>>     
>
> Hmm, what would happen if 44.1KHz audio was played at 48KHz.  One semi
> tone higher would make 44.1KHz into 46.7KHz, which I guess would not be
> that far off from 48KHz.
>
> Any chance you were accidentally playing something at the wrong output
> speed?
>
> What are you playing?  mp3?  wave?  midi?  Using what player?
>   
If I go to youtube and play "Dazed and Confused" (the second example 
with the Led Zeppelin album cover) through the emu 1212m it's in F. If I 
play that same clip through my old onboard card it plays in E. It should 
be in E. If I play a store-bought music CD on my CD drive of the PC 
(which invokes totem movie player) it also plays about a semitone too 
high. My own CD-quality CD plays too high as well. An .ogg stored on the 
PC plays a semitone too high.

Chris

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