Feature:
Unbeatable features if you want to do home recording. One nice feature is that you can save mixer sessions for easy recall if you need to have different setups for different software.

Value:
If your looking for a super duper sound card, this is not it. But if your looking to do high quality recording on your PC, you can't buy a better card for $100 than this.

Sound:
24 bit at 44.1kHz and 48kHz sampling is fine for me. 96kHz is only available through the S/PDIF digital interfaces.

Support:
None needed so far.

Overall:
I have P4 with 1GB RAM and running WinXP Pro. I use Cakewalk's Home Studio 2 in ASIO driver mode. With my old built-in sound card the VST pluggins had terrible latency, but with the 404 I can't detect any now. I am very pleased with this card, but I recommend you read the manual to take full advantage.

Feature:
The software bundle alone is worth the price of admission. I was a Home studio user so the Sonar LE software was a nice little upgrade. The dsp effects are neat, although I was slightly disappointed in that you can't use more than one or two at time in real time.

Quality:
Seems well built....no forseen issues here.

Value:
What a deal....very happy with purchase

Desirability:
For the price it's awesome. About the only thing more you could ask for is additional I/O or a break out box.

Sound:
Blows away what I had before (Trutle beach Santa Cruz) The included Protesus X soft synth sounds great (although it is a CPU hog!)

Support:
Excellent. EMU responded almost instantly to my e-mail to inform me of Flash Bios update. Only frustrating because I bought the card on a Friday night and wanted to play with it all weekend but EMU support wasn't available over the weekend

Overall:
Don't know what all the negative hype is about how hard it is to use. Read the manual and get help from EMU support, because what you get for $100 is pretty awesome.

Feature:
everything you need and want in a 100 dollar sound card plus a little more.

Quality:
top notch and the good thing is its only 100 bucks!!! the emu 1212 is just a tad bit better and cost dubble the price.the 0404 is well worth 100.

Value:
well worth it.

Desirability:
well.....i got it...lol

Sound:
cristal clear.i love the quality it puts out for the price.its well worth the money.i give it a 8 because the ONLY 2 cards thats better is the emu 1212 & the emu 1820.

Support:
i never need to use it but i heard it was top of the line support.

Overall:
this gets a 10 for the simple FACT that it hangs with the emu 1212.if you a quality freak all the way down to the last spect of db,get the 1820m.but if your recording at home and making demos,dont wait to get the 0404.it does the job.

Feature:
The mixer, sends and patching are complex so makes it hard to work it just going for it, so 1 point off, but the more I read and play with it the more interesting it is. The effects and ability to connnect sofware to software digitally is great. The free sofware is "free software", works great with my cubase sl.

Quality:
It's a card so not much to say, solid, the blue is cooler then the green cards but since it's in your puter I guess it really doesn't matter.

Value:
Couldn't believe it was only 99. For all the stuff you get and the sound it's a real bargain.

Desirability:
It's all good. But after using it I think I should have gotten one of the bigger ones or at least the 1212m because this one is not expandable(!) i'm seriously starting to want more inputs since the mixer is so good, no latency at all and sounds SO much better then my mixer, lots of good effects, cuts down on the spaghetti factor. After listening to the card by itself and comparing it to having my mackie connected its night and day. If this cheapy one is that much better, can't even imagine what those Digi converters sound like.

Sound:
CLEAR, CRISP, no noise or hiss.

Support:
Haven't used it because theres a great forum online, lots of users and some very helpful people from emu http://www.productionforums.com/emu/default.asp

Overall:
I will probably get what I can for this soon and try and get a bigger one to replace my mixer.

Feature:
Cool features, great software!!!

Quality:
Awesome!! Got quite a few great sounding recordings already.

Value:
Can't beat it for the price

Sound:
Awesome low noise, crystal clear recordings.

Support:
Never used

Overall:
Get one!!!! Don't listen to the morons who can't figure it out!!!

Feature:
Very, very low latency, astoundingly so! Must be the 32 bit DSP.

Quality:
Top notch all the way.

Value:
Top notch card for the price.

Desirability:
It's a very good product but obviously a break out box would be more sexy but it would be more expensive.

Sound:
Really nice, bright sound with lots of headroom.

Support:
Never really used it but they give you some decent manuals (PDF's).

Overall:
I would say unless your getting really serious about recording, this should easily suffice the loan musician or creating demos.

Feature:
2 analog ins/outs, coax/optical in/out, MIDI in/out. Great options for the price range.

Quality:
Very high quality, probably the best card you can buy at $100.

Value:
Great value.

Sound:
Very clean, flat, detailed sound. The analogs are very high quality and sound great with a headphone amp. It can also record/playback up to 192khz with the newest drivers.

Support:
Never had problems, thus i never had to call support.

Overall:
Great product.

Desirability:
Would buy again.

Sound:
Excellent 'workhorse' soundcard. Excellent value.