Hi raen,
I have no experience with the EMU cards, but I just downloaded the manual and browsed it quickly. I can only offer suggestions, as I have no way of verifying if it will work.
As I understand it, you want to bypass the Podium mixer entirely, and only stream audio to and from individual channels in the EMU PatchMix application. The PatchMix allows setting up channel strips with ‘ASIO Host’ channel inputs. I gather from this that when you select the EMU ASIO driver in Podium, you get a bunch of virtual input and output channels, which is supposed to be mapped to physical inputs and outputs in a PatchMix session file.
You need to create a device mapping object for each mono/stereo channel strip in your PatchMix setup. If you have created your project using the Project Wizard, you will have a ‘Master Mono’ and a ‘Master Stereo’ mapping. You can copy/paste one of these mappings and create a set of mappings where you modify the ‘starting channel number’ in the properties dialog, to match the ASIO channel number you have selected in PatchMix.
In your arrangement you then place these channel mappings on multiple top-level tracks. Compared to a typical Podium arrangement which only have one master out track, you are using several master out tracks this way.
Using the project wizard you should have created mappings for audio inputs as well. These are mapped similarly in the PatchMix, using the insert sections. In the master section in PatchMix you should then set up a insert that will split out the audio to one of the virtual ASIO inputs. This input you then assign to the track in Podium where you want to record the master mix. However, Podium will only record from inputs, if the track with the input is being ‘pulled’ or ‘driven’ by an output mapping. So you may have to use a trick here to make it work. Perhaps using an output mapping that is not mapped in your PatchMix, can do the trick. Assign this output mapping as a parent track to your master mix input track, and then this output will not be heard in your mix.
Whew, this turned out to be a long story. I hope some of it makes sense.
Frits
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