Getting Camtasia to work with the E-MU 1616 Sound Card
I just got sound working in my C64 emulator and I wanted to record a short WMV of M.U.L.E. to send to a few friends, but couldn’t figure out how to get sound recorded. I just tonight got both M.U.L.E. and sound working, so I just had to let people know :)
If you have a usb headset soundcard, you’re generally out of luck. You can’t record that sound as nothing is coming “back” to the PC.
However, I also have a pro sound card, used mostly for ASIO stuff, MIDI, and recording. It’s an EMU 1616 PCI card with an external box. It has a boatload of inputs, as well as MIDI in/out. Cost me half a leg when I bought it, so I get annoyed if it won’t do every last thing I demand of it :)
Anyway, couldn’t get Camtasia to pick up the audio for that until I started playing with the sound card’s mixing software.
It’s pretty simple once you get down to it:
- Open up PatchMix DSP
- Make sure you have a strip for Wave 1 / 2 in there – the default wave source on your computer
- Crank up its aux 1 send to zero (the knob below all the inserts)
- Over on the right, insert the WAVE/WDM (Camtasia doesn’t use ASIO) send to Aux 1, and make sure you have the volume up.
- In Camtasia recorder, pick the E-MU 1616 device as the audio source.
Right-click the Aux 1 insert (where it says Send in the shot above) and you’ll get this menu:
Pick the Wave L / R and ok the dialog.
Verify by clicking the Send insert. You should see this
You may need to lower the master volume to a reasonable level, but other than that, you’re good.
Viola! Now I can record the awesome SID music from my emulator :)
